Maia Silber
Fraud with Benefits | How Breaking the Rules Makes Welfare Work
Maia Silber
In a viral video posted the day after Christmas 2025, Nick Shirley, a right-wing YouTuber in his early twenties, drives around a snowy Minneapolis aiming to expose what he alleged was the widespread misuse of federal funds by Somali-owned daycares. Shirley is accompanied by a local conservative lobbyist-cum-vigilante named David, who warns that the perpetrators of the scheme are “exceptionally violent”; Shirley declares that the money is being used for...
