PART 1: Journalist Who Visited Somali Day Care Centers Explains Why Media Missed Fraud ‘Kindergartener’ Could Find

December 29, 2025

From the Daily Caller: Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who visited multiple Somali day care centers in the Minneapolis area, said Sunday fears of being labeled “Islamophobic” may have prevented local media from investigating the potential fraud.

Shirley posted a photo of one day-care center, which displayed a banner calling it “The Greater Learing Center” on X, along with a 42-minute video that went viral showing him visiting that and other day-care centers, Friday, touching off a storm on social media. Shirley told “The Big Weekend Show” co-hosts Tomi Lahren, Joey Jones, Tom Shillue and Kaylee McGhee White that local media feared attacks that could come if they pursued the story

“I don’t know. Like, they are scared of being called now, because it’s Somalis committing this fraud, they are scared to be called Islamophobic, racist, which has nothing to do with what’s going on because fraud is fraud,” Shirley said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a black person, a white person, Asian versus Mexican, fraud is fraud and we worked too hard to simply be paying taxes and enabling fraud to be happening.”

When the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme was uncovered earlier, the group had claimed the investigation and suspended funds was due to racism.

Shirley explained, “Literally, if you drive around Minnesota, around Minneapolis, you will see daycare centers, autism centers, you will then see transportation companies that have snow piled up as if they have not moved in months and then you also go into buildings where there will be 20 healthcare companies, 14 and 22 are the biggest that I published on X and YouTube, so it’s like a kindergartner could figure out that there’s fraud going on.”

“WE WERE ABLE TO CRACK OVER $110 MILLION IN FRAUD”: A video by independent journalist Nick Shirley is going viral, raising questions about daycare fraud in Minnesota. @nickshirleyy tells @Johnny_Joey & @TomiLahren about his investigation. Do you think there’s more fraud in MN? pic.twitter.com/QAdKp2l9EA

— The Big Weekend Show (@BigWeekendShow) December 29, 2025

Below is Shirley’s bombshell video which has now gone viral all across social media. It has over 1.4 million views on YouTube, and 115 million views on X.

“You are the media now,” Elon Musk commented to Shirley.

Shirley responded:

Thanks to you 🤝 by Elon purchasing X a few things happened:
– Unlocked free speech on the internet
– all other social media platforms had to follow suit or loose viewership
– News can be released immediately to millions uncensored from the scene vs going through MSM newsrooms
– Fake news is held accountable by the people

Thanks to you 🤝 by Elon purchasing X a few things happened:
– Unlocked free speech on the internet
– all other social media platforms had to follow suit or loose viewership
– News can be released immediately to millions uncensored from the scene vs going through MSM newsrooms… https://t.co/fsMjJUpCCi

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) December 29, 2025