Always a joy to celebrate Somali Independence Day on Lake Street!
Contrary to right wing trolls, Somalis are helping Minnesota thrive.
Guul iyo gobanimo Somalia 🇸🇴
Trump does not arrive at Somalia by accident. Practically every other week Somalia is made central in his press conferences. Someone is feeding him this. Someone finds it useful.
In December 2025 Israel formally recognised Somaliland, the breakaway region that declared independence from Somalia in 1991. Is it any surprise that Israel now wants the US to follow? You do not manufacture contempt for a country at the highest levels of power without a destination in mind. You do not extend diplomatic recognition to a breakaway territory without first making the parent state sound like it deserves to lose it.
On the same day Trump was degrading Somalia on camera, the Israeli Embassy in Nairobi was posting a map drawing circles around Somali cities. On the same day, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Uganda’s president and chief of its armed forces, was announcing a statue of Yoni Netanyahu at Entebbe airport at the exact spot he fell in 1976, and invoking Jesus Christ as the one who would end the war in Gaza. The crusader and the cartographer, working the same moment.
None of this began with Trump. It began long before him, with the academic infrastructure that defined Somali territorial claims as irredentism, the policy architecture that armed Somalia’s neighbours against it, the Christian Zionist networks that spent decades cultivating East Africa’s religious landscape, and the intervention mandates that described Somalia as a failed state and never asked who failed it.
You do not get to call a country crooked and disgusting from the White House unless a long chain of more respectable voices has already established that its brokenness is its own fault.
Somalia was not broken by accident. It was broken by the same governments now drawing maps around it, arming its neighbours against it, and manufacturing the language that makes its dismemberment sound like a natural conclusion.
Trump’s words are crude. But they did not arrive from a vacuum. The first map was drawn the moment imperial powers landed on the Somali peninsula. Every map since has served the same purpose.
The question is whether Somalis will wake up in time. The Palestinians did not see the full architecture until it was too late to stop it. The maps were drawn. The neighbours were armed. The narrative was set. History does not have to repeat itself. But right now it is rhyming very loudly.
Somalia is reportedly advancing talks to acquire up to 24 JF-17 Thunder Block III fighter jets from Pakistan in a deal valued at approximately $900 million.
The package includes training, weapons integration, and long-term maintenance support.
Source: Somalia Today
🚨BREAKING: The Somali Day Care Owners Union has filed 30+ civil actions against @nickshirleyy, @JDVance, @realDonaldTrump, and @elonmusk.
Sources estimate $20B+ in initial liability, with settlements rising as more defendants are named.
Buckle up MAGA!!!
The 🇸🇴 federal gov’t have ordered the Bosaso and Garowe based PSF and Danab special forces to send some units to Las Anod first psf units arrived today this proofs that the local 🇦🇪 puppet governor doesn’t control the forces in this region as he is too broke to pay their salaries
Puntland social media secessionists can’t believe PSF, Danab, PMPF all are under the federal government control who pays for their salaries and training 😂
Fat puppet Deni has no control over Puntland,
The 🇸🇴 federal gov’t have ordered the Bosaso and Garowe based PSF and Danab special forces to send some units to Las Anod first psf units arrived today this proofs that the local 🇦🇪 puppet governor doesn’t control the forces in this region as he is too broke to pay their salaries
ICE agents returned to St. Cloud, Minnesota, to harass and target Somali businesses, but they did not expect to face this level of resistance from Somali Americans exercising their rights.
I’ve seen the video.
Don’t believe this propaganda machine.
The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice.
I am aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland. The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.
My public safety team is working to gather information on an ICE related shooting this morning.
We will share information as we learn more. In the meantime, I ask folks to remain calm.