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A federal effort to throw about $40 billion in taxpayer cash at semiconductor manufacturers is now going to double as a backdoor effort at expanding federal subsidies for child care. According to The New York Times, the Commerce Department is set to unveil new rules on Tuesday that will effectively force recipients of the new federal semiconductor subsidies to "guarantee affordable, high-quality child care for workers who build or operate a plant." The Times reports that the new rules will not specify how recipients use the funding, though it could include everything from "building company child-care centers near construction sites...

🚨HOLY CRAP🚨 My jaw is on the floor… Aimee Bock, the ringleader of the Feeding Our Future COVID fraud scheme, is listed as the contact for at least FORTY SEVEN taxpayer-funded "child cares" in Minnesota, according to an official state database. These locations must be investigated for potential further fraud @TheJusticeDept

Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life: "I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime. “My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking,” State AG Nick Brown stated. “We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t...

Beaver 🦁 @beaverd Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years They didnt even try to hide the money trail. http://somaliscan.com

With all the fraud being exposed in Minnesota around the Somalis and their different entrepreneurial exploits, from daycares like the “Learing Center” that apparently only operates between two in the afternoon and ten at night to the autism clinics submitting false claims, the national spotlight is on the individuals running these various ventures. "My kids go here, from 2 to 10pm" CBS speaks to a Somali woman outside the "Learing Center" to "debunk" Nick Shirleyy pic.twitter.com/uxWO31JrEz — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 31, 2025Yet, fortunately for one of the Somali-run daycares, someone allegedly broke in and stole a bunch of “important...

Five of the 10 Somali daycare centers that were visited by Nick Shirley in his viral exposé on alleged fraud in Minnesota were also meal sites for the fraud-laden "Feeding Our Future" organization. The case surrounding fraud with "Feeding Our Future" has seen over 90 people charged and at least 60 people have been convicted. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, half of the 10 daycare facilities that were visited by Shirley were also connected to Feeding Our Future as "meal sites." Altogether, the five daycare businesses got nearly $5 million from Feeding Our Future between 2018 and 2021. The...

Minn. Somali-run day care bizarrely reports all their important documents about child care were stolen in mysterious break-in A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in stole “important documents” as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding billion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services. Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building’s office sometime on Tuesday. He said the alleged prowler stole “important documentation” including children’s enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.

A politically charged YouTube video thrust a group of Somali-owned day cares in Minnesota into an uncomfortable spotlight this week, accusing the owners of defrauding the state and unleashing a torrent of threats against them. A lawyer who represents one of the operators of Minnesota Best Childcare Center in Minneapolis, which was featured in the 43-minute video, said his Somali clients have received hundreds of death threats since the video went viral late late last week. “Everybody is very scared right now of being targeted,” attorney Jason Steck said Dec. 31. “Nobody wants to stick their head up. Nobody wants...

(The Center Square) – Daycare centers that receive hundreds of thousands in taxpayer subsides did not appear to have any children when The Center Square visited the facilities this week and were either openly hostile or told journalists that they were hoping to have children in their care, but did not have an application available or anyone to talk with about enrolling a child. The focus on Washington's taxpayer subsidized daycares comes at the time federal authorities are conducting what they call a "massive" investigation into fraud in Somali-run facilities in Minnesota. According to fiscal.wa.gov, a home-based daycare on 6th...

Years before Minnesota welfare fraud captured the nation’s attention, a Somali-American leader of one massive scheme expanded his assets beyond the North Star State, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, a Somali-born naturalized U.S. citizen, used some of his ill-gotten gains to buy property throughout the Twin Cities and Kentucky before the DOJ prosecuted him for using the nonprofit Feeding Our Future to defraud the government of $300 million in COVID-19 relief meant for hungry children, leading to a 28-year prison sentence in August. There are at least 1,687 people of Somali descent living in Kentucky....

🚨 BREAKING: OVER 40 “daycare centers” in Columbus, OH opened up using the SAME defunct Somali shell company on the SAME day, and collected $14 MILLION in subsidies in 2024 alone Just CUT OFF the subsidies all together! It’s OUT OF CONTROL!

Josh Gerstein of Politico is facing an avalanche of critical responses on Twitter/X over a post he published on Monday night in which he implied that Somali daycare centers might start justifiably shooting people for knocking on their doors and asking questions, under ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws. He was responding to the explosive claims made by independent citizen journalist Nick Shirley and the revelations in his recent viral video exposing hundreds of millions in alleged fraud carried out by Somali-owned daycare centers in Minnesota. Here is Gerstein’s tweet (it’s a screenshot in case he deletes it): Liberal journalists support ‘Stand...

Nick Shirley set off a firestorm. Check this out. [I've watched through most of these, but there could be language hiding, so be warned.] Washington: ALL VIDEOS AT LINK.......................... (Look at those mansions the Somalis are living in!!) Philadelphia: Columbus, Ohio: In Minnesota, local outlet Alpha News also provided this corroboration of Nick Shirley's claims. Prompted by a flood of tips from readers about facilities that tipsters say do not appear to be providing services, Alpha News reporters Liz Collin and Jenna Gloeb visited more than a dozen autism centers and adult day care businesses across the Twin Cities during...

A shocking undercover video by a citizen journalist has blown the lid off Minnesota's Somali-owned daycares - empty buildings raking in taxpayer funds. But as Donald Trump dispatches federal agents to crackdown on the crisis, there are fears that the fraud might bleed into America's most hallowed system: its elections. Kamala Harris, running alongside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, won the state in 2024 by just over 138,000 votes, a thin 4.2 percent margin. Lawmakers are now demanding whether permissive voting regulations have left the Land of 10,000 Lakes drowning in election fraud. Minnesota has over the last month emerged as...

🚨 BREAKING: Nokomis Daycare, the Somali Daycare who said someone broke in and stole all their documents yesterday, actually had NOTHING STOLEN, per Minneapolis Police So the owners LIED, knowing a federal investigation was imminent. This place needs to be raided NOW!

BREAKING: In response to the massive daycare fraud being exposed by independent journalists using state websites, WA State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation to hide information about daycares and their operators from the public

The Department of Health and Human Services has frozen all federal child care payments to the state of Minnesota amid a far-reaching fraud scandal that has unfolded in the state. HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill announced on Tuesday evening that three actions have been taken amid " serious allegations that the state of Minnesota has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade." O’Neill said he has "activated our defend the spend system for all ACF payments. Starting today, all ACF payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence...

Live and lear. The infamous misspelled sign outside the Quality “Learing” Center in Minneapolis has finally been corrected a day after The Post stopped by to investigate fraud allegations against day care centers in the city. A hastily applied sticker was spotted Tuesday morning, restoring the name of the alleged day care facility to “Quality Learning Center” as originally intended. However, the center’s street address on the transom beneath the sign was still misspelled as “Nicolet” instead of “Nicollet.” Manager Ibrahim Ali told The Post Monday that the center’s graphic designer was to blame for the typo, and that it...

Local report from 2013 exposed Somali daycare fraud in Minneapolis, showing the sham centers earned millions per year with parents falsifying work records to receive even more cash. TV station went undercover Money meant for food was funneled to a restaurant who used the funds to possibly support Terrorism