Should auld, auld tabbies be forgot, and never brought to mind ...
WE ARE ALL LEARING THE HARD WAY
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) December 31, 2025
The infamous Quality LEARING Center is caught in more lies as they received $1.9 Million this year in 2025 and were shut down a week ago according to the Children Commissioner yet they continue to “operate” to try and save face as they have been… pic.twitter.com/VT9ecC6qK8
... have been caught.
Also now the Department of Health and Human services have frozen ALL child care payments to the state of Minnesota, they will now only be released when there is proof they are being spent legitimately.
PEOPLE ARE LEARING THAT FRAUD IS BAD
Ed: Is Our Minnesotans Learing? Is Our Journalists Learing? Probably not yet, but when the money gets followed, I'd bet quite a few Minnesotans in positions of power will be 'learing' about consequences.
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Fox News via RealClearPolitics:
Nick Shirley, an independent journalist whose report on fraudulent childcare and healthcare companies in Minneapolis went meg-viral over the weekend, said what he found is just the "tip of the iceberg."
"It is so obvious," he said. "Literally, if you drive around Minneapolis, you will see daycare centers, autism centers, and transportation companies that have snow piled up as if they have not moved in months."
"You go into buildings where there will be 20 healthcare companies. It’s like a kindergartner could figure out this fraud going on," he said.
Ed: A kindergartner could figure it out. Bloggers can figure it out. Guess who can't figure it out?
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Power Line: The Minnesota Star Tribune, a longtime DFL mouthpiece that is now run by a former Walz cabinet member, is doing its best to fend off criticism of the Walz regime. Toward that end, its “reporters” are desperately looking for a way to discredit the Nick Shirley video of Somali day care centers that has been seen by more than 100 million people.
Deena Winter, a Star Tribune reporter, evidently was assigned that task. In the Shirley video, he has a colleague who is identified only as “David.” Winter apparently thought this could be the weak link. So she set out to dox David ...
Winter thought she had a good idea who David is, but she was wrong. She thought that he might be David Zimmer, American Experiment’s policy fellow specializing in public safety. I have no idea why, since David Zimmer bears zero resemblance to the guy in the video. Still, Winter DMed American Experiment policy fellow Bill Glahn on Twitter and texted American Experiment’s Communications Director Bill Walsh to try to confirm her theory that “David” on the video is David Zimmer. They both told her that her identification was wrong, and Zimmer had nothing to do with it, as you can plainly see if you look at his picture on our web site. But looking up a photo on a web site is too much to expect from a liberal “reporter.”
Ed: The Minnesota Star-Tribune is the worst, most useless, and most corrupt newspaper in the country. Bar none. It exists to disseminate DFL propaganda, pander to the progressive elites, and amplify the woke party line. Their reaction to actual reporting is to try to shut it down. They're allergic to it.
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I see the @StarTribune reporter has deleted her account and the state has retracted their “closed”defense.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 31, 2025
A big part of the problem is that many reporters now view their job as simply getting a comment from people involved instead of doing any investigation themselves. https://t.co/7A7FVcDR5Y
Ed: A big part of the problem with the Strib is that they're not interested in reporting at all.
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You have to be an absolute moron to not know a Somali did this as a hoax. This is such a low IQ crime that it’s actually hilarious. Why would anyone with an IQ above 80 try to burglarize a day care? What are you going to steal? Crayons? Nonexistent toys? Give me a break. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/NNUimcImwK
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 31, 2025
Ed: The Strib believes it ... which proves Starbuck's point.
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CNN reporter sets up shot of herself on the phone, hard at work investigating….not the fraud…but Nick Shirley and his claims.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 31, 2025
"We reached out to several of the daycares featured in the now viral video. Only one daycare facility answered."
This is how CNN is devoting its… pic.twitter.com/m6QZ9jv0Lu
Ed: This ... is CNN.
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Shipwreckedcrew: Remember, the Biden DOJ last charged anyone in the FOF fraud scheme on Feb. 5, 2024. No additional charges over the final 11 months prior to Trump taking office, and it had no investigations into any other fraud schemes.
Working almost from scratch, the Trump/Bondi DOJ — beginning in May 2025 — has now charged 21 additional defendants in less than 7 months, and expanded the investigation into Autism treatment, housing assistance, and the Integrated Community Supports services.
Catherine Herridge posted on X today that Dir. Kash Patel said the FBI has 16 investigations open into 32 healthcare and homecare providers. This is a joint effort with HHS OIG’s Medicaid Fraud Unit, IRS, and Postal Inspectors. The HHS OIG unit is particularly noteworthy since their primary responsibilities are Medicare and Medicaid fraud investigations.
At a 35 minute televised press conference on December 18, 2025, the Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said his office has investigations looking into 14 different programs funded by Medicaid and operated by the Minnesota state government.
Ed: Ship is responding to people who have been criticizing the Bondi DoJ for not digging into this before Shirley's videos and the Power Line reporting. As he lays out, the DoJ and FBI have actually been pursuing this almost from Day One of the Trump administration. Be sure to read the whole thing, and if you find it interesting, subscribe. Ship always has great analysis and news.
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NEW: House Oversight Committee Chairman @RepJamesComer announces the committee’s first hearing into the MN Somali fraud scandal will be on January 7th & will feature MN state lawmakers who sounded the alarm on the fraud & were allegedly ignored. MN Gov. Tim Walz & AG Keith… pic.twitter.com/jrSFEa7GKM
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 31, 2025
MN Gov. Tim Walz & AG Keith Ellison are being invited to testify before the committee in a second hearing on February 10th.
“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in a massive fraud involving taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs,” Comer writes. “Next week, we will hear from Minnesota state lawmakers who sounded the alarm on this fraud—and whose warnings were ignored by the Walz administration. This misconduct cannot be swept aside, and Congress will not stop until taxpayers get the answers and accountability they deserve.”
Ed: I'll take 'complicit' in the betting pool, especially with Ellison. He's the Attorney General, after all. It beggars belief that he'd simply miss fraud on this scale and scope, even with incompetence in play. Warnings and red flags were there all along.
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Kurt Schlichter at Townhall: What’s happening, thanks to Shirley and others who have dug into and are discovering the same kind of graft all around the country, both Somali-derived and otherwise, is that Republicans are 'learing' a harsh truth. The Democratic Party has always been a criminal organization. But the criminality part, the part about directing and a never-ending flow of tax money to its constituents, whether through welfare fraud or just regular welfare, or USAID grants, or Green New Deal payoffs, or whatever, is just one component. It’s not all traditional corruption. Some of it is just cartoonish evil. There are some Democrats who aren’t taking any money personally. They pay for their own Chardonnay and SSRIs. These are often sexually dissatisfied wine women with the pinched faces of sour apple dolls, and they receive something less tangible from their Democrat masters. What they get is the giddy pleasure of bossing around other people, exercising their misguided class envy by inflicting revenge upon normal, happy people. Their payoff is that they get to direct their own psychodrama on a national stage, whether by banning guns, or trying to limit our speech, or forcing us to use mushy paper tubes instead of regular plastic straws. They are generally powerless, because no one would trust them with power normally, but Democrats lend it to them in return for their votes and their energy. These are the ridiculous people screaming at the No Kings rallies, boomer dummies whose activism fills that space that should’ve been populated with faith, family, and The Flag.
So, what are we going to do about it as Republicans? Well, this is a golden opportunity, which means there’s a huge chance the Republicans will totally squander it.
Ed: Ouch baby, very ouch. Of course, Kurt's cynicism comes from many years of bitter experience. The good news is that Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Noem are not following the usual pattern of weenieing out.
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ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist’s 1A rights will have some ‘splainin to do. @CivilRights takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously!
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) December 31, 2025
Govern yourselves accordingly! ❤️#1A https://t.co/6H50NkaqwW
Ed: It's not just Minnesota. It's more concentrated there. And the Democrat officials there are just less competent at the cover-up.
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Jonathan Turley: She was also tied to the murder and ambushing of police officers for years before she was stopped on May 2, 1973 on the New Jersey turnpike by State Trooper James Harper who was backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle. The resulting shootout left Harper wounded and Foerster dead.
Her trials spanned a variety of charges ranging from bank robbery to kidnapping to attempted murder, and other felonies. However, when there were acquittals and a mistrial (due to a pregnancy) on different charges, she was ultimately convicted of murder before her escape.
Yet, the Times and Hannah-Jones brush over that history to gush about Shakur and the effort to shield her, even describing the criminal network as akin to famed system used to free slaves before the Civil War: “Shakur had been hidden in the United States for several years by a sort of Underground Railroad.”
The Times column bewails how “freedom came with shattering costs for her and her family.” Not a single line of sentiment for the widow and son that her victim left behind in New Jersey, let alone the other victims in murders and attacks that she was connected to as part of the Black Liberation Army.
Ed: The Left is all about violence in service of their agenda. The New York Times is just sticking to its mission.
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Nick Shirley, who exposed Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota, says he is now facing threats from left-wing activists.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 31, 2025
“They say, ‘You’ll be Kirked,’” he said. “I feel bad for my family. We didn’t do anything wrong.” pic.twitter.com/qFDobWiwRf
Ed: All Shirley did was knock on doors and expose fraud. And for that, people are threatening him with assassination. Consider what that says about this moment.
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🚨 LMAO! The “owner” of Somali Nokomis Daycare is DOUBLING DOWN, saying someone broke in and stole STUDENT ENROLLMENT and employee documentation
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 31, 2025
Even though Minneapolis Police say he’s LYING, and NOTHING was stolen
This is beyond parody at this point 🤣
And of course, there’s… pic.twitter.com/NqpDQ1FUXz
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This wins the internet tonight! 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/0PtQkoJzGL
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 31, 2025
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