the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jan 5, 2026
A young online influencer named Nick Shirley recently posted a video on X and YouTube purporting to show daycare centers in Minnesota not serving children and therefore receiving government funding fraudulently.
The daycare centers in the video were all run by Somalis, and Shirley attempted to show a Somali influence on the state’s government. Within two weeks, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced it was investigating the daycare centers, and his Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services announced a freeze on all childcare payments to the state of Minnesota.
Donald Trump had made vulgar racist comments directed against Minnesota’s Somali community even before the video, and after the video came out he said, "Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia."
In the meantime, Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth and Families stated that the childcare facilities shown in Shirley’s video were operating properly. They added that one of the centers Shirley visited had been out of business for three years now.
The Trump administration and his supporters are encouraging young content creators to collect and post videos purporting to support their agenda. This is one. And Shirley had previously posted a video supporting Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio.
It’s the latest method the wealthy ruling class has found to use in its attempts to divide workers on racist lines and divert attention away from the real enemy, the wealthy class itself and the capitalist system from which they benefit.