You have to hand it to Nick Shirley. While the Somali/Democrat fraud in Minnesota has been simmering for nearly a decade here in Minnesota (then-Representative and now State Senator Steve Drazkowski was calling for an audit of Medicaid fraud as far back as 2016), Christopher Rufo and Nick Shirley have finally managed to get people to sit up and take notice.
Shirley’s videos penetrated public consciousness for a number of reasons, but the true masterstroke was filming himself in front of the “Quality Learing Center,” which was an absolutely perfect visual. The people who ran the center not only didn’t actually serve kids, but they couldn’t even spell “learning.”
To explain away @nickshirleyy‘s viral video, a commissioner of the MN Department of Children, Youth & Families @MinnesotaDHS announced at a presser that the “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis had already shut down permanently last week. But today, the Somalis brought in many…
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2025
Governor Walz is doing his whole song and dance, declaring that all the investigations are driven by “white supremacy,” because of course he is. But he is also panicked by the whole scandal, which may or may not threaten his political future in Minnesota, but which surely has destroyed his dream of becoming a national political figure.
“Minnesota is a better place because Somalians decided to live here.”
– Tim Walz to a group of Somalians led by an Imam.
You really can’t make this up.pic.twitter.com/qkXzPvnVMN
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 29, 2025
After Nick’s video came out, Walz’s administration tried to mitigate the damage from the “Quality Learing Center” (sounds like a placy where you bring paedos) by announcing that the center had voluntarily closed, anyway, so no point in worrying about it or something.
Except…today the Quality Learing Center was bringing in kids, and assuring everybody that the center is open for business.
At the same time, the Minnnesota Star Tribune has reported that the center was shut down last week. The flagship newspaper has also come under scrutiny in the wake of the report from Shirley, with many claiming online that the YouTuber has been reporting on what the paper should have been doing all along.
Citing the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Tikki Brown, the Minnesota paper reported the “Quality Learing Center” was shut down last week.
However, the New York Post spoke to the son of the owner of the day care center on Monday, who claimed that Shirley’s visit took place before they opened the day Shirley visited. Ibrahim Ali argued to the Post, “Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, ‘Hey, they’re not working?’” Despite the reports of the center shutting down, Ali appeared to insist that the center was open for business.
Ali also blamed the misspelling of the now-infamous sign on a graphic designer. “What I understand is [the owners] dealt with a graphic designer. He did it incorrectly. I guess they didn’t think it was a big issue,” Ali claimed as he also said that he helps out with the facility’s paperwork.
The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth & Families announced that the daycare had permanently closed last week.
The Somali daycare mobilized a bunch of children in front of the cameras today.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2025
Apparently, Minnesota’s Department of Children, Families, and Learning and the fraudsters couldn’t coordinate their stories.
Why isn’t the Minnesota Star Tribune covering the Somalia fraudster under Tim Walz?
Meet Steve Grove…
CEO and Publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Enemy of the People… pic.twitter.com/AiUE4UZExZ
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 29, 2025
It should come as no surprise that the Minneapolis newspaper has been running interference for Governor Walz for years. Its publisher, Steve Grove, was the Commissioner of the Department of Employment & Economic Development under Governor Walz, with whom he is close.
Not a peep about fraud, but a big story on Tim Walz building his influencer army. pic.twitter.com/TTndB5c9Sn
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) December 28, 2025
As the story explodes across the country, the Star Tribune has remained remarkably incurious, and most stories about the controversy downplay it to an almost comical extent.
Still no coverage in NYT, WaPo, CNN, or Minneapolis Star-Tribune of massive fraud being uncovered in Minnesota. The media’s willingness to ignore stories that hurt Democrats is truly astonishing. pic.twitter.com/xZcZcbUSm9
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) December 29, 2025
It’s not just the Star Tribune. Most newspapers are ignoring the story as well, although the story is sexy enough for television stations to cover it. When you can video a “Learing” center, the visual is too good to ignore.
The New York Times and The Washington Post were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes for the now-debunked Russia collusion hoax, built on fake intelligence and anonymous sources.
Meanwhile, an independent YouTuber uses public records, real documents, firsthand investigation, and…
— TMK (@TheMagaKing2_0) December 29, 2025
It tells you how little prepared any of these people were, either in government or among the scammers, for scrutiny that they couldn’t get the simplest elements of their story straight. “They’re closed.” “We’re open!”
They’ve never had to deal with scrutiny before. The scammers submit invoices, the government pays, the media covers it up.
Here is another Minnesota “care provider” who got caught billing Medicaid for a client they never even met.
Community Care Partners saw its taxpayer-funded payments surge nearly 70X in one year after it was sold to new owners.
Hibat Sharif, Musab Abdulkadir, & Mohamed Mohamed. pic.twitter.com/oKzLFIFNC8
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) December 30, 2025
Of course, it’s not just daycare. It’s not just Feeding Our Future. It’s not just the autism fraud. It is EVERYTHING. Home health care fraud. Transportation services fraud.
“The Somali community is critical. In my own election I wouldn’t be in office without the help of the Somali community. Somali voters came out in very large numbers and were able to register people to vote. Very recently several thousand Somalis were naturalized as U.S.… https://t.co/08pvXRmTL2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2025
What’s truly infuriating is not just that the Democrats have been buying votes with our tax money, as bad as that is. You would think they could purchase the votes of third-worlders who lived in refugee camps not too long ago for less than $10 billion or more.
Everybody’s favorite new pastime in Minnesota:
Looking up how many “daycare” centers are in their neighborhoods.License lookup here:https://t.co/C7WeKWPgqg
One of our followers found four in one block in his Columbia Heights neighborhood, including two in the same building.… pic.twitter.com/LntaKif95w
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) December 29, 2025
There has to be a cheaper way to steal elections, you would think.
But of course, they are wasting taxpayer dollars, so what do they care? And since many of those dollars flow from the feds, they see it as completely free money.
You telling me the SAME DAYCARE that @nickshirleyy just visited in Dec of 2025 was also visited 11 months ago by @JayKollsKSTP
0 kids observed, 95+ violations, they’ve received $9 mil since 2019 with $1.9 mil in 2025 alone?
I’m about to stroke out
pic.twitter.com/qBeX2LgWDx— AK Kamara (@realakkamara) December 29, 2025
Back when I was fighting the high tax burden in this state, the lefties created a campaign called “Happy to pay for a better Minnesota,” selling the idea that we get great services for our high taxes.
Let me get this straight
1. Somali immigrants get billions in taxpayer dollars for *free* for fraudulent daycares
2. in exchange, they fund democratic candidates with the free money
3. democratic politicians (Walz, Omar, etc) ensure fraudulent payments continue
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How is… https://t.co/O3oDuntRym pic.twitter.com/c8Mzgtkp6i
— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) December 28, 2025
But the truth is that they meant “Happy to pay for a better Somalia.” After all, half the GDP of that country is remittances, mostly from…the United States.
There are 539 childcare centers in Washington state that list Somali as the primary language. Most don’t even give a street address.
I don’t know how many of these are submitting fraudulent claims for state grants and subsidies, but I have a strong hunch the number is not zero. pic.twitter.com/FoUQiFNqM6
— Kristen Mag (@kristenmag) December 28, 2025
Not that it is news, but soon enough we will find that welfare fraud on this scale is the norm, not the exception, in states around the country.
Luxury cars and private villas: See how Minnesota fraudsters spent millions intended for hungry kids, by @mkaplantv & @JonahPKaplan: https://t.co/gkxGYhqqJD
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) December 11, 2025
It’s the tip of the iceberg.
OMG 🚨
Liz Collin personally went to a dozen sites, found empty – adult day cares – Autism clinics with no kids – but the parking lot had luxury cars parked in front
The fraud in Minnesota, has gone from ($1B) to ($18B) and neither Tim Walz or Ilhan Omar have been indicted yet… pic.twitter.com/cWPHMJXnNf
— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) December 19, 2025
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