Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Freezes Minnesota Day Care Money Over Simoleans for Somalians

At NYPo, Trump admin freezes all childcare payments to Minnesota after massive fraud allegations: ‘We have turned off the money spigot.’ Ace, With Discovery of Rampant Somali Piracy, Small Business Administration Head Kelly Loeffler Stops Federal Grants to Minnesota, "Closing the barn doors after Biden let the horse thieves empty it." Expect a Hawaiian judge to block that in 1 2 3. Homeland Security @DHSgov, "DHS is on the ground in Minneapolis, going DOOR TO DOOR at suspected fraud sites. The American people deserve answers on how their taxpayer money is being used and ARRESTS when abuse is found. Under the leadership of @Sec_Noem, DHS is working to deliver results." From At TNP, Bondi Confirms 85 Somalis Charged, 60 Convicted in Minnesota Fraud Scandal. Kristin Robbins @KRobbinsMN, "Stunning - it appears they have taken down the license look-up website so Minnesotans can’t see who the Medicaid service providers are or what licensing violations they may have. @Tim_Walz @ DHS should restore this immediately." Quote Mary @RepMaryFranson, "Paging ⁦@GovTimWalz⁩, why is the childcare licensing page down? What are you and DHS hiding." Hat Hair's Capt Ed hears Walz: Let's Remember That The Real Problem Is White Guys. Autism Capital @AutismCapital, "TIM WALZ: “The majority of crime is committed by White Men. It’s crime in general. We need to be educating the population…Medicaid fraud will stretch across ALL racial demographics and ethnic groups. I think you can’t blame the Somali community.” WOW." Ace, Minnesota Retard Tim Walz: Akshually The Real Fraudsters and Criminals Are White Men, "This message paid for by Make America Somalia Again." TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2, "Factually, the person in charge of vetting Kamala's vice-president pick was.... Eric Holder. [look it up] President Obama's former U.S. Attorney General was in charge of reviewing all of the research on Governor Walz. Now, think about his selection again carefully." Quote Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain, "Did anyone on Kamala’s team even vet Tim Walz?!? Or did he just pretend to know how to use a shot gun and that was that? x.com/scottpresler/s…"

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "How does the Somali daycare fraud work? - Somalis bring in kids - Check them in - Leave with the kids - Bill the state for care that never happened - Parents receive kickbacks Oh, and this is surveillance from 2018. This has been happening for YEARS." At NYPo, Shocking unearthed footage shows parents pretending to drop kids off at a Minnesota day care center. Vince Langman @LangmanVince, "The owner's son of Quality Daycare claimed the reason there were no kids when Nick Shirley stopped by in the morning is because they don't open until later in the day. Do believe this guy?" Matt Vespa at TownHall, CBS News Investigated Somali Daycare Centers After a YouTuber's Video Went Viral. Here's What They Found. Ace, Somali Pirate "Day Care Centers" Are Suddenly Filled (Well, not "Filled") With Rent-a-Kids, "Bussing in Child Shields." From the Hindustan Times, ‘Quality Learing Center' memes go viral after Nick Shirley’s Minnesota fraud video. At Twitchy, Somali LOON Goes Off on Nick Shirley Accusing Him of Going After Muslims and His Response Is PERFECT -Vid  Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "Within the next 72 hours, expect a Jussie Smollett-style fake bomb threat against a Somali “learning center” that Democrats will try to blame on MAGA right-wingers on X. They desperately want to distract in any way they can from the fraud. Bookmark it."

Vicky Taft at PJM notes After Nick Shirley's Exposé, Others Begin Digging for Empty Somali Daycare Centers in Their States. Guess what they found. I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0 "After the fraud scandal in Minnesota, a TikToker decided to investigate daycare centers in Ohio, which has the country’s second-largest Somali population. By plugging the addresses into Google Maps, he discovered that many of the buildings didn’t look like typical childcare facilities—lacking playgrounds, proper signage, and even having blacked-out windows. Even more striking, he found that several of these daycare centers had donated money to the same Somali congressmen. The fraud is Minnesota is just a tip of the iceberg." Matt Vespa at TownHall, This State Might Be Another Hotbed of Somali Fraud. Elon Musk @elonmusk, "The Somalis and many other groups were imported, given government handouts and allowed to do fraud without prosecution in order to ensure that a Democrat would win the election in that district." Quote Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison admits the Somalians were imported to vote Democrat He says they even go out to ballot harvest for Democrats and the Somalians are used in multiple states to swing elections for Democrats Foreigners imported to steal our electionsShow more." Mary Chastain at LI, HUD: Biden-Era Rental Assistance Payments Went to Deceased Tenants, Noncitizens "The agency accused the Biden administration of pushing out the funds “with minimal oversight” and just trusting the people who received the money."  Info Battle Maiden @info_maiden, "Less than five minutes on this site and I’ve already found over $32M in SBA 7(a) loans to eight Indian gas stations in Texas. Such highly skilled human capital that they need to run gas stations with our tax-backed loans. All they do is commit fraud, bleeding us dry." Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "It works like this: > You pay taxes > Democrats create programs with activists in charge to ensure $ flows to people Democrats want $$$ going to > Fraud artists getting the $ then donate to Dems > Dems raise taxes to fund more programs > Dems call you racist for complaining," Quote Brandon Fugal @BrandonFugal "Elon Musk sounded the alarm on all of this…and his dealerships were burned, his life threatened & he was even harassed & ridiculed by Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, AOC…the very people enabling this fraud." Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort "If welfare and redistribution were really about helping people, then their proponents should care *more* about fraud. That’s money not going to the stated purpose of these programs. Their hostility to all scrutiny proves their stated goals were always lies. It’s just patronage." Quote Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "The real question here is, why don’t Democrats care about billions of dollars being stolen from taxpayers? x.com/thehill/status…" Andy @PositivFuturist, "The Somali daycare fraud cost more than a trip to the edge of the solar system." John Kulak Kramlich @jkramlich, "I used to think “we sacrificed the stars for this” was hyperbolic. I’ve since come to realize it’s understated. We haven’t just sacrificed the stars we’ve sacrificed everything."

At PJM, VodkaPundit thinks Minnesota Is THE Moment of Truth for Bari Weiss. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze. "This is a chassis textbook media example of "What more do you want? We covered it already!" One story." Quote David Weigel @daveweigel, "NYT was covering this before the influencers got there. It’s now got an electoral angle, (influencers going to MN to confront fraudsters, GOP sharing viral clips) but odd to say the NYT wasn’t covering the fraud. This story made Dems look terrible! https://nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/fraud-minnesota-somali.html"  Hat Hair's Dave Strom says Pravda Didn't Miss the Fraud—They Covered It Up. 

Sean Davis @seanmdav "Politico’s legal affairs reporter all buts calls for Somalis to shoot and murder anyone who knocks on the doors of their businesses. This clown clearly has no idea what stand-you-ground laws are or what states they apply to (hint: Minnesota is a duty-to-retreat state, not a stand-your-ground state)." Quote Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein "At some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand-your-ground laws" Readers added context "Stand-your-ground laws remove the duty to retreat from a threat when a person is in a place they have a legal right to be. Knocking on the door of a supposedly public business does not constitute a threat, so stand-your-ground could not be invoked as a defense. usconcealedcarry.com/blog/what-is-s… Do you find this helpful?" Ace, Politico "Reporter" Josh Gerstein: Somalis Should Shoot Citizen Reporters Who Knock on "Day Care Center" Doors to Ask Questions "Remember when the communist media demanded that Erick Erickson be fired from CNN after he mused about shooting census workers that knocked on his door? You won't be surprised to learn that communists employ a "Who, whom?" analysis to their supposed moral imperatives. Who is doing it, and to whom it is being done, determine whether it's criminal or mandatory." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "I cannot overstate enough that today on this very platform, a professional journalist employed for his legal expertise insinuated that anyone going door to door asking questions about possible taxpayer fraud is likely to be shot and killed, and he has zero understanding of self-defense or stand your ground laws And literally NOTHING will happen to him professionally."

And it's not just money, it's votes. In Minnesota you can vouch for up to 8 "friends" to vote at the last minute, no ID needed. ThePersistence @ScottPresler, "HOLY COW MINNESOTA VOTER FRAUD This is the form used to vouch up to 8 voters on Election Day (for people that don’t have IDs). If you read closely it says, “Employees of residential facilities may vouch for an UNLIMITED number of facility residents.” This is legal. This is Minnesota law. Which means that there *should* be a paper trail of every single one of these vouching forms. How many persons serve as vouchers each election? What is the number of persons for each voucher? Do these vouchers show up every single election? We need to begin submitting Data Practices Requests to the Minnesota Secretary of State. This is a huge story." From the Pop Times, ‘Corrupt AF’: Minnesota’s Voter Vouching System Exposed by Pressler and Dhillon. Tim O'Brien at PJM, Meet Three Minnesota Judges Who Corrupt Somalis Love Most. Ace,
As Questions About Ilan "Omar's" Sudden Fortune Grow, Her Husband Begins Deleting Information from His "Venture Capital" Website. "Venture capital, huh? Bet he has a lot of Somali "investors.""

From NYPo, Zohran Mamdani to be sworn in as NYC mayor below City Hall Park— in private ceremony at shuttered subway stop. PJM's Rick Moran predicts Democrats Are Planning to Terrify Voters and Generate Hysteria Against AI. At Da Fed, MD Kittle ends the year with a list of The Left’s Top 25 Lies Of 2025. Why restrict yourself to such a small number? 

Althouse finds "Part of the sausage making process."

What happens when the minimum wage goes up? Well, California is getting an experiment in that right now. Just ask @gavinnewsom. Reason's @BessByers shares what happened after AB 1228 implemented a government-mandated pay raise for all fast-food workers. 🍔 pic.twitter.com/FFL7hkMOKk

— reason (@reason) December 31, 2025

At Am Spec Jed Babbin calls it A Trump-Worthy Year for the Military "President Trump has a strong record on the military, but faces dangerous modernization gaps." VodkaPundit at PJM, says FINALLY, Jewish Space Lasers. Overton @overton_news, "Scott Jennings SNAPS on leftist host Emma Vigeland after enduring several minutes of what he called ‘propaganda’. After Vigeland finished, Abby Phillip tried to move on without letting @ScottJenningsKY respond…but he wasn’t having it. JENNINGS: “Oh, we don’t have time for the anti-Israel propaganda?!” “I don’t understand. Israel is our ally. Not a single word in your speech for the atrocities that were committed on October the 7th.” “We should not a single word… not a single word for the idea that Israel has every right to defend itself.” “Not a single word for the fact that Hamas right now is killing people inside of Gaza, their own people!” “You seem to lay it all at the feet of Israel, democratic ally, and your own country, and you have NO negative word for the terrorists who raped and murdered and kidnapped!” “ZERO. None, none.”" From Da Caller, ‘Adapt, Shrink Or Die’: Trump Admin Announces Major UN Aid Shake-Up.

Misty Severi at JTN, Trump threatens to sue Fed Chair Jerome Powell for 'gross incompetence' "The president hinted that the lawsuit would be connected to the increasing cost of renovations to Federal Reserve buildings, stating that the chairman has allowed the expected cost to skyrocket." From Da Caller, CNN’s Harry Enten Says JD Vance Lapping 2028 GOP Field Before Race Has Even Started. Teri Christoph at RedState, Ric Grenell Offers Shocking Explanation Why Artists May Be Bailing on Their Trump-Kennedy Center Gigs. Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell "I have just been informed by some booked artists that they are receiving emails from @CNN and The @washingtonpost encouraging them to boycott the Trump Kennedy Center. The legacy media are left wing activists - and they are open about it." Matt Vespa sees NY Gov Hates Trump So Much That She Will Make NY Working Americans Suffer to Stroke Her Ego, by taxing tips in NY.

From Da Caller, Foreign Group Backing US-Designated Antifa Terrorists Says Bank Accounts Were Shuttered. Good.

Politico whines Trump admin can share immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules "Blue states sued to prevent Medicaid data from being used in deportations." Wait, I thought illegal aliens weren't getting Medicaid. Ace, Judge Rules That Trump May Share Illegal Alien Medicaid Data with ICE, "As Scott Jennings points out: The left claims that zero illegal aliens are on Medicaid, so the file should be blank. Right? Right?" At JTN, Illegal entries into Arizona plummet, 60% fewer gotaways than in Biden years "Stats represent roughly a 92% drop from illegal entries and a record number of gotaways reported in Arizona during Biden era." Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge, "Mass migration does not fix labor shortages. It makes it worse. The reason is migrants reshuffle labor. We end up with too many low-skill workers. And a brand new shortage of doctors, dentists, and schoolteachers." KTSA, Wanted Criminal Migrant Caught Posing as Statue in Nativity Scene.

From Campus Reform, 5 ways the Trump administration reset higher ed for 2026, "From safeguarding student safety to restoring transparency in admissions, the Trump administration's sweeping reforms enforce merit, law, and civil rights in academia." Greg Lukianoff, The Worst of Both Worlds for Campus Free Speech "The biggest threat to speech used to come from within higher ed. Now it’s the government."

At Liberty Unyielding, DEI redlining is happening. A group is seeking to end it." “The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a conservative legal group, is requesting the Trump administration remove race from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ‘Social Vulnerability Index,’ which is being used by liberal localities to steer funds to communities based on race,” reports Fox News:"

From Ace, Entertainment and Media Sector Sheds 17,000 Jobs in 2025, Up 18% from 2024's Job Losses. "Survive until 2025, they said after covid and the twin strikes, expecting that 2025 would be a comeback year for the media. That has not happened. And 2026 will be worse. The media is dying. It's finally dying and nothing can save it now."

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