Stick And Stones

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You remember the saying? Sticks and stone my break my bones but words will never hurt you!” WRONG! Words hurt, words can kill!

In “Everything we know about Minnesota's massive fraud schemes” CBS News reported,

President Trump has largely blamed the Somali community, calling Somali immigrants "garbage" who "contribute nothing," which has incensed Minnesota lawmakers, who have accused him of demonizing the community at large. Mr. Trump ended temporary deportation protections for Somali immigrants who live in Minnesota, claiming without evidence that "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State."

KDRO also reported that community has seen,

At Fardowsa Ali’s restaurant in Minneapolis, she said the usual steady flow of diners seeking Somali sambusas or desserts has been replaced with threatening phone calls.

“It’s really sad,” said Ali, who opened Albi Kitchen last summer. “I called police because one guy called here and said he was going to come here and break everything.”

The threats and declining business began after conservative content creator Nick Shirley posted a video accusing day care centers in Minneapolis’ Somali community of fraud – including one in the same building as her cafe, Ali said.

Since the video was posted, Ali and other business owners and families in the state’s deeply rooted Somali community have said they were threatened, harassed and bullied on social media. A day care facility was vandalized and parents are afraid to send their children to school. Somali restaurants and coffee shops that once bustled with patrons were nearly empty last week and people are scared to show up to their jobs.

The Republican cleaver has struck again! First it was the Haitians, now it is the Somali community with their lies!

Somali-owned day care in south Minneapolis burglarized, vandalized days after viral video

Nokomis Daycare Center representatives say someone broke through a concrete wall and stole sensitive documents, including enrollment information with children’ s names.

Sahan Journal 
Katelyn Vue and Binta Kanteh

December 31, 2025

A south Minneapolis day care that caters to the Somali community reports that someone broke through a wall and stole sensitive documents early Tuesday morning, heightening fear in the community. 

The break-in at Nokomis Daycare Center, which is run by Somali owners, occurred between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. several days after right-wing influencer Nick Shirley posted a video on Youtube alleging fraud at Somali-owned day care centers in Minnesota. Nokomis Daycare Center’s manager, child care providers and parents spoke at a news conference Wednesday morning, saying the video targeted the Somali community and prompted a federal freeze in assistance for Minnesota child care centers.  

“It’s sad that a video can cause all of this,” said Nasrulah Mohamed, the day care’s manager. “We are not a part of any harmful thing that’s being said.” 

It is very sad!

At least a dozen businesses and day cares have reported receiving threatening phone calls and messages to Minneapolis police since Dec. 19, including one day care that reported more than 100 voicemail messages, police spokesman Garrett Parten said in a written statement to Sahan Journal. Information about whether the businesses or day cares were Somali-owned was not readily available, Parten added.

And Trump calls the left the violent ones! But here is what Trump and all his cronies didn’t mention,

Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally

The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."

By Phil Helsel and Julia Ainsley

NBC New

January 3, 2026

Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families on Friday said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.

The department issued the statement in response to requests for information about the Child Care Assistance Program, which it oversees grants from, and referenced a "recently circulated video."

The Trump administration, and President Donald Trump himself, have alleged fraud in Minnesota after a recent video from a right-wing online influencer named Nick Shirley that contained unsubstantiated claims of fraud at child care facilities in the state.

The department said in the statement that investigators with its Office of Inspector General conducted compliance checks at nine centers referenced in the viral video.

“Investigators confirmed the centers were operating as expected, gathered evidence and initiated further review,” the department said in a statement Friday.

But… what about those videos? And that, my friends, is the $64,000 question: Were they serious journalism—or a hatchet job?

But words do hurt!

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