{"id":844,"date":"2026-07-01T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:15:32","slug":"on-americas-250th-red-states-capital-city-flies-somali-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"On America\u2019s 250th, Red State\u2019s Capital City Flies Somali Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"

As America heads into the Fourth of July weekend marking America\u2019s 250th birthday, the city hall of Columbus, Ohio, is celebrating differently.<\/p>

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Columbus is hoisting the flag of Somalia, a foreign government, on Wednesday and celebrating its independence, according to a government department\u2019s social media feed.<\/p>

\u201cHappy Somali Independence Day! <\/span>\ud83d\udc99 As we celebrate the unification of the Trust Territory of Somaliland and the State of Somaliland into the Somali Republic in 1960, City Hall will be raising the flag of Somalia,\u201d the city\u2019s Parks and Rec department said on social media. Praising Somalia was apparently so important to the department that it was its first post on X, formerly Twitter, since April 2019.<\/span><\/p>

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The department deleted the post moments after The Daily Wire asked Parks and Rec and City Hall about it. Neither department immediately replied to questions.<\/p>

Columbus City Hall\u2019s X account has celebrated Juneteenth and Pride Month, but said nothing about America\u2019s 250th. In June 2023, the council passed a resolution to fly Somalia\u2019s flag. In June 2025, it passed a resolution \u201cTo Recognize and Celebrate July 1st as Somali Independence Day in the City of Columbus.\u201d<\/p>

Columbus is home to the second-largest concentration of Somalis in the United States after Minnesota. The Daily Wire spent time in Columbus after Medicaid records showed some of the most flagrant red flags in the country. Those home-health firms turned out to be run largely by Somalis, to the point where one man said it was racist to ask about Medicaid spending because it was so closely intertwined with Somali identity.<\/p>

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Ohio\u2019s Medicaid spending has doubled over the last decade, leading to a financial crisis.<\/p>

Ohio is facing a budget crisis due to Medicaid. Here\u2019s one man\u2019s thoughts, told to @ParkerThayer and I:<\/p>

\u201cBlah blah blah\u2026 Journalists, who cares, journalists? Do you pay my bills? \u2026 (ominously) We know people to talk to\u2026. I\u2019m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/h5is7FnT5x<\/p>

\u2014 Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) June 3, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>

Other recipients of government grants in Columbus painted a grim picture of Somalis, saying many claimed to be disabled and were illiterate or drug addicts, to the point where some foreigners were being paid by the government to help other foreigners fill out disability and welfare forms.<\/p>

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, traveled to Columbus to address the rampant fraud, calling the city \u201ca Mecca for Somalian populations. \u2026 We were naive to think that practices that are common in other parts of the world wouldn\u2019t follow them here.\u201d<\/p>

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The unanswered questions posed to Columbus officials included:<\/p>