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Lis Johnson's avatar

Whew. I’ll sleep so much better tonight knowing those fake Louis V’s are off the streets.

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Michael Cohen's avatar

lol

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ramona j's avatar

Wonder how many wives of ICE agents got hand bags as gifts tonight.

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Anna Bifano's avatar

Good one, Ramona. I was thinking the same thing

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Robin's avatar

Sadly, the influencer daughters would become trumpers

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Robin D's avatar

Everyone in NYC has the fakes. Even me. Come and get me Kristi!

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patti smith's avatar

Really!

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Jamesina Hamilton's avatar

Thanks for the chuckle- so rare these days!

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Robin's avatar

Now....they are just being sold out of the back of vans. (even older school method).

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Jessie S.'s avatar

Fascist traitor and arrogant, sniveling little hateful snitch Savannah “Hernandez” better watch her little ethnic back. If she thinks she’s somehow marked “safe” in America’s racist, xenophobic, misogynistic hellscape, she’s a straight up FOOL.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Definatly.....Time to learn a few lessons from WW2 resistance movements. Sniches often had strange accidents that were mysterious with no witnesses. Dosen't history repeat itself??

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DW's avatar

At least a shaved head...lol. Gotta love New York!! Unfortunately things yet to come. This really sucks. Gestapo/ICE agents.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Don't forget the tar and feathers......The latest "Snitch Barbie".......addition to the Orange Barbie Colletion.

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Pseudonym.TBD's avatar

Yes and she's just another fascist clown who worked for Alexander Emerick Jones on 'InfoWars'. Hernandez left on good terms and says good things about Jones.

Another "Pick Me" who, if her side gets its way, will be in the crosshairs of her fellow fascistés because they always keep sorting out the "impurities". Only when they need more power do they entreat folk outside of their narrow extreme right-wing White identity fascist blood purity rules. I'm sure that White identity warrior Jones will have something to say about this. Jones is far less compelling when he's masque off, much like the bastard in charge of the SCOTUS, John Glover Roberts Junior.

Both Jones and Roberts have said that the few remedies from the civil rights movement are "racist against whites". It's important to understand that the through-line of White identity(Which is different from the various ethnic identities of Europe and other groups that were folded into and out of Whiteness for centuries.) leaves trails of blood, sweat, and tears. There never has been a shining city on the hill. It has always been a mirage and obscured by fascist smoke and mirrors.

If we want a better future we need to hold individuals and institutions accountable for their grave crimes. If we want a better future, we have work to do. If we want a better future we need, first and foremost, to be kind. 🧕🏼🐝🆓🌈🌈💟

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Marina Hart's avatar

A good to know moment. Thank you so much for your post. Fun fact, there are more dark brown and brown, including dark olive and olive skinned folks than white skinned folks worldwide. About 60% to 40% white. White supremacist might have a more acceptable life in a like minded country, take Justice Thomas too! He must really dislike being in his own skin!

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Pat Duke's avatar

We need to doxx her

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Dorothy Venditto's avatar

Walking east from theater district on Tuesday evening around 9pm, my husband and I saw many knock off handbags scattered on the street. After a bit, we saw the guys, who looked quite shaken, returning to quickly gather all their bags. They had been spooked by what may have looked like an ICE van and probably knew what had taken place on Canal Street. These African men have been part of NYC culture for decades now. They aren't bothering anyone. What a disgraceful nation we have become.

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Robin D's avatar

I have bought nice scarves and pashmina wraps from them. They were always around the city. Even on Fifth Avenue right in front of the luxury stores. No one ever bothered them.

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Ralph Hensley's avatar

I can't wait until Noem is in cuffs being paraded through the TV lens and ICE is no more! That'll be a day to celebrate

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WJB Motown's avatar

Hopefully the universe will bless humanity when a certain Orange child rapist has an unfortunate unexplained golfing accident......long before the Ice Barbie celebration

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Kat Martin's avatar

She's Barbie, all right. Klaus Barbie.

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Martha Kenne's avatar

She is a disgrace.

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Gerry's avatar

I’m thinking like Cersei Lannister in GoT season 5.

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Lucyland's avatar

That’s an insult to Cersei! I’ll call Kristi “Radovanka” Noem after Radovan Karadžić because, like him, she delivers evil with perfectly coiffed hair.

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Robin D's avatar

Shame. Shame. Shame! And then they should rip her extensions out by her roots and parade her and her fish lips and fake boobs so we can throw things at her!

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patti smith's avatar

That's God's truth!!

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Fred's avatar

These guys get arrested but Trump pardons a guy who was convicted of a variety of financial crimes. The corruption never ceases.

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Vel Santic's avatar

he pardoned his jan 6th 2021 terrorists and got the mightiest power on this planet transferred to him peacefully by the previous Administration; small wonder he's perpetrating now whatever he wants when instead of punished, he got emboldened....

@ Michael Cohen, you worded this excellent. And all true.

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patti smith's avatar

Yeah, let's not get started on the people who will never get their court-ordered restitution because trump has pardoned and freed their abusers@

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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

My most important takeaway: "this was never about counterfeit goods. It was political theater. A made-for-camera stunt to feed the right-wing ecosystem that thrives on images of brown men in cuffs. The same ecosystem where Turning Point influencers get more attention for calling out street vendors than Congress does for not passing a budget. ICE didn’t just raid Canal Street; they auditioned for a Trump campaign ad."

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Andan Casamajor's avatar

How is there even federal jurisdiction for this? Aren't bootleg street vendors just violating municipal business regulations? Does ICE have jurisdiction to enforce copyright and trademark laws using armed violence? How was this pathetic-Karen "influencer" (what a ludicrous job title, anyway) so sure they were all "illegal?"

Another new low in a really ugly week. No Kings really tweaked Fat Donnie's fee-fees.

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Brian Collins's avatar

Nailed it Michael!

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Carolyn's avatar

ICE are nothing more than deplorable racist bigots who arose from their basement dwellings, as they peaked in middle school, and are empowered by trump to act like NeoNazi Gestapo, while they’re neither trained nor experienced or mentally equipped to be in law enforcement, military or even a normal life.

They ALL need to be in a jail cell and pay for their violence and ignorance of the REAL LAWS OF THE LAND!

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Johan's avatar

Nothing to do with trademarks.

It is all about message control.

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Catherine Ognissanti's avatar

What is wrong with the people in this country? Selling is now against the law? I thought they were going after the worst of the worst. Selling handbags and wallets isn't the worst of the worst. I would say its that influencer thats the worst of the worst. Another Charlie Kirk wannabe. These people are racist and if they didn't know, they came from immigrants. Maybe they should have thrown her immigrant family out of the country. This is just a travesty to see our country like this. Makes me sick.

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Paul Schwartz's avatar

She is a scumbag

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JudyC's avatar

Democracy is dead.

We are now a full-blown Authoritarian Policed nation.

America could have stopped this.

Instead America responded to Trump, Trumpism, SCOTUS, and his DC-MAGA-GOP like an abused spouse who kept 'trying not to upset its Abuser'.

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Vel Santic's avatar

Bingo!!

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Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

I feel sick reading this. I love Canal Street. These vendors aren't hurting ANYONE. I thought they were going after the "worst of the worst." This is despicable. Did they even arrest anyone or did they run away like the cowards that they are?

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WJB Motown's avatar

After the canal raid.....Ice agents went home and crashed Grindr and dined on "eating ass."

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Robin D's avatar

If people don't follow IHIP they won't know that's what Jen said about Mike Johnson's red cheeks. They are burn marks from his Grindr hookups while he is eating ass.

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WJB Motown's avatar

"Little Moses Mike Grindr Johnson's", ... side hustle is protecting pedophiles..........DLDemonQueen, whose balls are in the top drawer of the Oval office.

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Robin D's avatar

I have been wanting to Google it but what is “DL” Down low? They make me scream 🤣

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WJB Motown's avatar

MAGA hypocrits........Hate gays in the daytime........grindr---eating ass at night......Smokey Eyed,Failed Drag Queen,couch fucking on the side.......HEY.....Did You see FOX news showing the IHIPNEWS logo!!!

Did you buy the book yet??? LOL......Always going back to it.....

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Robin D's avatar

No I didn’t buy the book but even my friends who aren’t on substack or know them know about tittybabies and Lil Smokey and Canks and their sayings that have gone viral.😂 I have you to thank for following them. Now Jen is in NYC. I would run up to her if so saw her and give her a hug 🤗

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Robin D's avatar

I love.Canal Street too. If I had to serve on jury duty I would make a.stop there. They should send the ICE to the "worst of the worst " CRIMINAL that is sitting in the WH and just destroyed our historic East Wing! He should be deported on his Qatari flying bordello and sent to live out his life in Qatar or Saudi Arabia with the rest of the dictators and terrorists that he loves so much.

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Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

I agree. And yet, a bunch cult followers love him. Argh and ewwwwwwww....

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Robin D's avatar

I will never get it. I have an elderly cousin in the FOX hole who loves him. I scream at her

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Pat Duke's avatar

What a show ice put on ,disgusting!!!!!!!

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Anna Bifano's avatar

Watching this ridiculous display of bullying was disgusting. The people selling knock-off’s on Canal Street are part of the NYC scene and enjoyed by all! Beyond ridiculous - it s frightening and a window into the future if we do not defend our democracy and unseat the regime of bully’s and thugs. My first Gucci Bag and Rolex came from Canal Street while in business in NYC years ago. Seriously - people are losing their jobs, starving, not making their car payments.. Wake up and focus on the right priorities! Guess I’m amped up.

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Carol Gamm's avatar

Thanks again Michael. Hope more people can imagine what this farce looked like.

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