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Disgusting - how do you have 2 rivers, 3333KM of Sea Access & a population that is 80% under 40 - and you are receiving Food Aid? I don’t know what’s worse - a foreign embassy dictating to our political elite, when & where to meet. What to talk about and how to talk about it - or receiving food aid from the former Soviet Union.

@LandofPuntites Not a Harti or a Puntlander - but you have my full support!

Forgot to post this here. Puntland, SSC, Awdal and Issa. The 2019 Chagos ruling gave you the legal tool. The 1960 independence was designed to be temporary and the union was never properly completed as a bilateral act between sovereign states. Use your 1884 and 1889 protection treaties and show that the original rights were never lawfully transferred. Puntland, move on Migiurtinia. The defective process is over. #Puntland #Somalia #Awdal #SSC #Somaliland

@maxamadaibrahim 😭😭😭😭

Said Deni from Hero to Zero 😂

@Rainmaker1973 To preserve knowledge and wisdom- books will now be banned and/or burned.

Sad fact. The practice of dehorning rhinos is currently one of the most effective ways to protect them from poachers. [📹 a_vet_into_the_wild]

I have sent the invitation via DM to Dr. @MohamoudGaildon - For MP Dr. Abib @MPDrAbib - you would need to update your DM setting to accept invitation. - the platform is set, the Somali youth are ready to listen. If your positions are valid you will show up.

I will hold a space and invite both of you. Somalis are interested in hearing about the corruption of Hassan Sh Mohamud and Somali politicians. It’s also imperative to understand that Somali youth in the diaspora have been brutally attacked by Mario and his handlers, a platform you went on with Dr. Abib. The space will be on Thursday. I have scheduled it. You are both invited. @MohamoudGaildon @MPDrAbib

@MPDrAbib Your message is irrelevant because of the medium you chose. It’s more about your character now more than what you have say. No difference between you and the corruption you seek to expose.

The Fear Is Not Mario Nawfal Interview - The Fear Is Exposure of Cancer in Our Communities I will not apologize to anyone for giving an interview to Mario Nawfal, and I reject the fake outrage from people who suddenly discovered “principles” after remaining silent for years while Somalia was being destroyed by corruption, abuse of power, political criminality, and the collapse of rule of law. Mr. Nawfal has his own beliefs, opinions, and political positions, just as I have mine. His views do not define my convictions, especially regarding Palestine. My support for the Palestinian people did not begin with social media trends or political fashion. It began long before many of today’s online activists even understood the meaning of the Palestinian struggle. In 1976, as a middle school student in Mogadishu, I had the honor of accompanying my beloved father to ceremony with some of the most important liberation leaders of that era. That day changed my worldview forever. I personally met and shook Yasser Arafat and learned directly from him about the suffering, displacement, humiliation, and resistance of the Palestinian people. I also met Joshua Nkomo (ZAPU), one of the great freedom fighters of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle against white minority apartheid rule, and President of North Yemen Honorable Ibrahim al-Hamdi. These were names I had previously only heard through BBC Somali Service broadcasts, and suddenly as a young student I was standing before them, listening to men who dedicated their lives to liberation, dignity, sovereignty, and justice for their people. Those encounters shaped my conscience and political understanding at a very young age. Later during university, Palestinian classmates shared firsthand stories with me about checkpoints, occupation, humiliation, exile, and daily suffering. I defended Palestinian rights when doing so was unpopular, inconvenient, and even academically and politically costly in which I lost my scholarship. So, spare me the dishonest accusations that I somehow abandoned Palestine because I gave interview Mr. Nawfal. That claim is intellectually weak, politically childish, and morally hollow. Let me also explain the upbringing and experiences that shaped my beliefs so people may better understand why I refuse to surrender my principles to online pressure, emotional politics, propaganda campaigns, or organized intimidation. When I was in middle school, I once visited my father at his office. While waiting to meet him, several people were sitting outside criticizing him harshly. When I informed my father about the criticism, he calmly smiled and told me this was normal in public service. Then he taught me a lesson that stayed with me my entire life - “Nin xil qaaday, eed qaaday.” “A man who accepts responsibility must also accept criticism”. That lesson shaped my understanding of leadership and public life. If you choose to stand in the public arena, you must also be prepared to face criticism, accusations, misunderstandings, and even unfair attacks without abandoning your principles. So, the criticism I am receiving today - whether from people who once claimed to support me or from supporters of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud - is well understood. Criticism is part of democratic life. Another defining lesson came when I was about 14 years old. My father called me into his office and asked me to help draft a formal legal complaint against the Director of the Ministry of Transportation and Aviation involving allegations of corruption, misappropriation, and abuse of public funds. He handed me sections of the Somali Penal Code and detailed legal violations. At that time, corruption cases against senior officials were extremely sensitive. Powerful ministers and even a vice president allegedly benefited from the deal in question. Pressure came from every direction to stop the case. But my father refused to back down. After I finished typing the complaint, I asked him whether he feared losing his position by pursuing such a dangerous case against powerful people. Without hesitation, he told me - “If you truly believe in the rule of law, then you should fear nothing.” That statement became one of the foundations of my life. From that moment forward, I understood that accountability means nothing if it only applies to the weak. Transparency means nothing if powerful officials are protected from scrutiny. And the rule of law means nothing if those in authority are treated as untouchable. Those experiences shaped my belief that public office is not protection from accountability, but a greater obligation to uphold justice, integrity, and public trust regardless of political pressure, intimidation, threats, or personal consequences. Later, while I was in high school, I regularly visited the U.S. Library in the Shangani district to participate in debates about the 1980 American presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Most people strongly supported President Carter because Reagan had publicly discussed reducing foreign aid and closing libraries abroad, which many interpreted as hostility toward Africa. But I was the only person openly supporting Reagan. Even at a young age, before ever living in America, I understood that U.S. politics is ultimately driven by strategic interests. I believed Reagan’s anti-communist position would push the United States to strengthen relations with Somalia in order to counter Soviet influence in Ethiopia during the Cold War. That prediction later proved correct when President Reagan welcomed Mohamed Siad Barre to the White House as Somalia became strategically important to the United States in the Horn of Africa. A U.S. Embassy official later asked me how I had predicted that outcome despite Reagan’s earlier rhetoric. The point is simple: I understand American politics deeply. I studied it long before I ever lived in the United States. I understand how narratives are manufactured, how fear is weaponized, how political fundraising works, and how strategic interests shape policy. What is truly at stake today is not personalities, clans, propaganda, or political camps. What is at stake is the survival of Somalia and the moral future of Somali communities around the world. The painful truth too many people refuse to admit is that corruption has become a cancer eating away the soul of our nation and poisoning parts of our communities abroad, including segments of the Somali American community where public suffering has become a business model for a small group of opportunists. For decades, billions intended for poor Somali citizens, displaced families, struggling mothers, hungry children, healthcare, education, reconstruction, and development disappeared into the pockets of corrupt officials, politically connected businessmen, fake NGOs, middlemen, and professional fraudsters enriching themselves in the name of the Somali people. Instead of confronting this ugly reality honestly, too many people chose silence, tribal protection, fear, propaganda, and public relations games. We glorify people who should be investigated. We celebrate individuals who mastered the art of manipulating donor systems, exploiting clan emotions, abusing welfare systems, and weaponizing poverty for personal enrichment. Anyone who dares expose this rotten system is attacked, isolated, smeared, threatened, or accused of “dividing the community.” Why? Because corruption is no longer treated as a crime by many people - it has become normalized by those benefiting directly or indirectly from the collapse of accountability and rule of law. That is exactly why I accepted the interview. I am grateful to Mr. Nawfal for giving me a global platform to expose corruption, constitutional violations, abuse of power, illegal evictions, looting of public resources, and the suffering of ordinary Somali citizens. Unlike many compromised media outlets controlled by political interests, intimidation, or clan calculations, his platform allowed these issues to reach millions globally. The real fear for some people is not Mario Nawfal - the real fear is exposure. Some of the loudest critics today were nowhere to be found when President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Speaker Adan Mohamed Nur attempted illegally removed me from Parliament, when President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud terminated illegally my salary, or when I challenged illegal constitutional amendments before the East African Court of Justice and needed support to cover enormous legal costs. None of these online patriots stood beside me then. Suddenly after interview with Mr. Nawfal, they appear pretending to defend Somali nationalism. What hypocrisy. But we must also confront another painful reality with honesty and courage - we have a responsibility to address the moral decay spreading inside parts of our own communities before it infects an entire new generation. Children absorb what they see from parents, relatives, elders, religious leaders, and community figures. If fraud, corruption, dishonesty, glorification of shortcuts, abuse of public systems, and disrespect for rule of law become normalized inside homes and communities, our youth will eventually see those behaviors as acceptable. That is how moral collapse spreads from one generation to another. We must build communities that glorify hard work, honesty, education, family values, accountability, dignity, ethics, and respect for the rule of law. Those are the values that create respected and successful communities anywhere in the world. If we continue denying these internal problems, we will keep giving political ammunition to figures such as Donald Trump and segments of the far-right movement that already seek to weaponize immigrant communities, including Somali Americans, for political gain. Denial will not protect us. Silence will not save us. Tribal emotions and propaganda campaigns will not solve the crisis. Real leadership is not pretending everything is fine. Real leadership is having the courage to diagnose cancer before it destroys an entire generation. Somalia and Somali communities abroad do not lack intelligence, talent, hardworking families, or potential. What we lack is the collective courage to hold ourselves accountable and rebuild a culture rooted in integrity, responsibility, education, dignity, and rule of law. I was raised by an honest father who never took one shilling beyond his lawful salary. He taught me that dignity begins with hard work, honesty, and refusing to steal from others. Those same values are how I raised my children in the United States. I will never normalize corruption simply because the criminals belong to my own community or clan. As my father used to say: “Nin xil qaaday eed qaaday.” And as my mother would say about endless critics sitting comfortably on the sidelines - “Habar guriga fadhidaa lagdin wax uga fudud.” I have never changed my beliefs to satisfy crowds, political factions, donors, or online mobs, and I will not start now. I will continue speaking against corruption, dictatorship, fraud, abuse of power, and theft of Somali public resources on any platform available - whether some people like it or not. Because real love for Somalia is not silence. Real love for Somalia is having the courage to tell uncomfortable truths before the damage becomes irreversible. @shokonoda @amnesty @HRW @UKinSomalia @HouseForeignGOP @realDonaldTrump @StateDept @SpeakerJohnson @susiewiles2024 @HassanSMohamud @TheVillaSomalia @HamzaAbdiBarre @AadanMadobe @SomaliainQatar @MOFAKuwait @UAEinSomalia @ChineseSomalia @KSAmofaEN @US2SOMALIA @EU_in_Somalia @ItalyinSomalia @UNSomalia @TC_MogadisuBE @UNDPSomalia @WorldBankAfrica @IMFAfrica @CanHCKenya @SwissEmbassyKE @MarioNawfal

@GazRobe29128735 Buddy its called state income tax. Do you know what a W2 is?

@ElephantsMusth "we" spend? What do you mean "we"? You're not even American!

Did you know - We spend $60,989 PER PRISONER annually (median state cost). There are 2,000,000 High School Dropouts ages 16-24 nationwide (Hispanic: 620K, White: 410K, Black: 280K, Native American: 40K). Each dropout costs taxpayers $298K over their lifetime. Meaning the cost of living is rising due to High School Dropouts- costing us hundreds of millions annually. That’s why you see Somalis being targeted as an escape goat - by Trump/MAGA - why? Because Somalis represent what America used to be. Capitalistic, Religion oriented, successful Socioeconomic group.

@YairGelden Bot.

@ElephantsMusth UAE handled by Tel Aviv? Antisemite.

UAE denies visit by Israelian PM - if you need more evidence that UAE is complicit in Iran/Sudan war and is handled by Tel Aviv - here you go

@Liban4congress Onwards & Upwards !!

Universal childcare now!

If you're looking to expose @HassanSMohamud's corrupt behavior, there are several credible channels available. You could launch a dedicated investigative podcast, convene a public forum, or engage the numerous Somali media outlets. Alternatively, you could author an op-ed on established journalistic platforms or leverage your parliamentary mandate to address these concerns through institutional mechanisms. However, platforming yourself on Mario's outlet - knowing his documented ties as a Lebanese-funded Zionist operative who has systematically engineered and deployed strategic dehumanization campaigns - is deeply problematic. There are 100,000 Somalis who have been subjected to coordinated targeting operations by Mario's proxy network, and now you appear as a marginalized political actor lacking strategic judgment. The corruption you sought to expose has been eclipsed by this tactical miscalculation, and you've inadvertently increased the threat surface for Somali diaspora communities in Western nations, making them vulnerable to escalated targeting. You've positioned yourself as either a strategic liability exploited by hostile actors or an opportunistic operative lacking political capital - both of which place you in the same compromised category as Hassan Sh Mohamud. @MPDrAbib.

For those who didn't graduate high school - per capita assumes the mean represents the typical individual, even when the distribution is extremely unequal - meaning if you add all the public program beneficiaries which is roughly 41,700,000 countrywide and 452,600 statewide (MN), White, Black, & Asian Americans receive 65% of SNAP nationally (35% White, 26% Black, 4% Asian). Minnesota's ~100,000 Somalis (who contribute $500,000,000 a year in taxes) contribute to the tax pool while representing 1.3% of state population.

In The State of Minnesota, approximately 440,000 individuals are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) every month. Among these 440,000, 185,958 (42%) are white, 137,153 (31%) are Black, and 36,214 (8%) are Asian. This demographic breakdown reveals that the number of white, Black, and Asian individuals enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Minnesota alone surpasses the entire Somali population residing in the United States. Source: Minnesota Department of Youth Children, and Families

@BigZa2323 💯

Trump’s instigated gerrymandering has escalated, with Republicans in southern states eliminating the sole black seat in states where blacks constitute 30% of the population. In response, Democrats plan to eliminate Republican-leaning districts in California, New York, Illinois, and other states. The next Congresses will likely be fought between states, reminiscent of the bitter divorce that preceded the Civil War.