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Jun 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I visited a tiny home, village built by the homeless and managed by the homeless. They have a strict, no drug policy and everybody chips in and does chores. Yes they are technically not supposed to be
there, but I’ve never seen a better managed Tiny home village. Far better than any NGO run one. The lady that gave me the tour said no nonprofits come by ever. I thought that was odd
Jun 27 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
We got accused of staging one of our videos. Recently @tarafaul503 and I intervened when one homeless man was threatening to stab another one with a hypodermic needle. We were accused of staging it by a Homeless nonprofit worker. It happened outside their agency and one
of them approached us and made the accusation. It was so ludicrous, but also not surprising. Every so often we get accused of hiring actors to portray homeless people. Accusations always comes from so-called advocates who refuse to accept the truth of the streets.
Jun 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Warning Graphic. A young homeless woman overdosing on fentanyl twenty minutes after Harm Reduction activists came by and handed out pipes, foil, straws and alcohol swabs. I don’t know if they gave anybody Narcan, but when we realized the young lady was dying. I was the only
one there who had it. Her face pretty quickly turned purple and she became completely unresponsive. A few others around her were also nodded out and I credit her friend for noticing her purple lips. I called 911 twice and it was hard to reach them. After a few minutes of CPR and
Jun 9 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I interviewed a homeless man selling his methadone. Methadone is a prescribed opioid distributed by the county to drug addicts. It’s used as a substitute to street drugs with the ultimate goal to taper off and get clean. A methadone client has to
show up five days a week and drink it in front of nurse. On a Friday you are given to additional doses for the weekend because methadone clinics close. More often than not those doses are then sold on the streets so the user can buy their preferred opioid such
Jun 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
When did we stop caring about the environment? One thing the Pacific Northwest had always been known for was its beauty. Over the last two decades, though turned into one large trash dump. It
happens slowly that many people didn’t even notice until it reached a point of unmanageability. There are many reasons that happened, but I believe the number one reason is radicalized progressive policies. By turning Oregon, Washington, California. Into mostly lawless states
Jun 8 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Homeless man with his face painted as the joker uses a drumstick to place a spell on a young pregnant addict, causing her boyfriend to try and stab him with a syringe filled with heroin. This was all happening as @tarafaul503 and and I were interviewing a 20 year
old across the street who’s newly Homeless and not by choice and had just been attacked by a man with an axe who was not happy that he stared at his bike. A great example of just how insane the streets are sometimes. Tara and I have broken up dozens of fights which we can do
May 28 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
A shocking visual representation of radicalized progressive policies. @tarafaul503 were absolutely speechless over the devastation. The land is owned by the state and has been managed by the county. Both notoriously radical. They have knowingly allowed hundreds of
homeless to live in these woods for many years and have completely ignored the destruction. It is both heartbreaking and infuriating. I spoke to former Troutdale Mayor @RandyLauer (population 15,000) that borders the park who expressed his frustration with the county and state.
May 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I tied up emergency service for an hour. While driving home, I heard someone screaming under a bridge. I investigated and found a developmentally delayed homeless woman with some kind of leg injury. I called paramedics and then kept her company until they arrived. She
told me she’s been homeless since she was 17 years old and is now 41. Paramedics arrived, and she became ambivalent whether she wanted to go or not. She crawled out from under the bridge and started yelling at the paramedics. She refused help and limped
May 2 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Homeless sweeps are big business for the Homeless Industrial Complex. Portland conducted a major homeless sweep yesterday. Approximately 90% of the homeless I observed dragged their tents exactly two blocks away. Three clean teams were involved from three different
agencies, a Portland outreach team and a few police officers. I would calculate the sweep cost about $30-40k when you consider there were at least forty employees involved from various agencies, insurance, dump costs, etc. As for positive results, I saw none other than
Apr 6 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
Witnessing the anti Trump and anti @elonmusk protest yesterday with @tarafaul503 I realized I was surrounded by thousands of delusional people that lacked any sense of self-awareness, critical thinking or rational thought. Many were just lemmings
doing what everybody else was doing in order to feel connected to their community not to mention the fear of ever having a dissenting voice. Nobody could really explain why they were there or what they were fighting for. All they did was chant the same things over and over again
Mar 31 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Addicted to the streets. Over 60% of the homeless population choose the streets. In fact many have told @tarafaul503 and I they already have access to housing, but still choose to live outdoors. The Homeless Industrial Complex and more specifically the NGOs that benefit
the most from homelessness have
convinced the public and lawmakers that housing ends homelessness. The two biggest reasons for this is either they don’t know the truth because they’ve never actually extensively studied the homeless or they do know the truth, but refuse
Mar 21 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I get a lot of hate from Housing First activists because I’m critical of the model. This is why. One of their components is Voluntary Personalized Services. Translation: A person is placed in state/county funded housing for free and often times for life and are
not expected or required to make any changes whatsoever that led them or kept them on the streets. This means other than being indoors, nothing about them has changed. While some do voluntarily utilize services most do not because they don’t have to. And now
Mar 10 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
We found twin autistic children in a homeless camp surrounded by active drug users, trash and uncapped used hypodermic needles on the ground. @tarafaul503 and I stumbled upon the first child eating bark off a tree. He told me it was harmless, but also that he was
hungry. I immediately went and got them pizza which maybe isn’t much healthier than charcoal but at least it’s food. We met their aunt that was very sweet and is working on getting Social Security due to partial blindness and
Jan 24 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
“It’s all an illusion” I asked a homeless woman when was the last time a trained professional offered real help and she laughed out loud. She told @tarafaul503 and I she hears and reads about services all the time, but said the way they’re set up, they
are almost impossible to access or when you do access them, it’s nothing but long waitlists. I’m well aware there are two sides to every story but I have heard this identical complaint easily thousands of times. Not hundreds but thousands. So at the very least our current system
Jan 23 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
A year in photos. In 2024 @tarafaul503 and I did the most extensive documentation of the homeless population of a major city ever. We met and documented thousands of people currently living on the streets. We photographed them, we interviewed them
and we helped them. I believe what we have now is one of the strongest understandings of why they ended up on the streets and why they stay on the streets. Most people choose to ignore this population. Tara and I have an immersed ourselves in this population and
Jan 15 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Housing will never end homelessness. A homeless man who has chosen to live on the streets for 37 years. He told @tarafaul503 and I that throughout his life, he has been offered help many times and has always declined. The current narrative by the Homeless Industrial Complex is
that housing ends homelessness and
why we have literally spent billions of dollars on housing. I have done extensive homeless outreach for decades and just over the last year I easily met/interviewed 40-50% of the homeless population in Portland, Oregon. I can confidently
Jan 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Shanty town cliff dwellings in Portland Oregon. They are starting to pop up everywhere and are in plain sight.@tarafaul503 and are seeing these in multiple neighborhoods. This is the natural result when you have a system unable or unwilling to end the homeless crisis.
I discovered these Hobbit like houses five years ago. They were in the deep woods though and nearly impossible to see.
Jan 3 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The moment I realized the Harm Reduction movement cared less about the person and more about the Social Justice cause. My second position working/volunteering in social services was doing needle exchange in Portland, Oregon 25-26 years ago. I had graduated from
college and joined a nonprofit and one of the first places they sent me was with a team to do needle exchange in downtown Portland in the middle of the night. I knew very little about harm reduction and was eager to learn more. Our team encountered a family. A mother and father
Jan 3 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
WARNING GRAPHIC. An addict afflicted with the flesh eating drug xylazine that is cut into fentanyl. Nearly his entire body is rotting away. On parts of his body @tarafaul503 and I could see his bones. Soon he will start losing his limbs and then eventually die.
Xylazine is a horse tranquilizer that is added to fentanyl to enhance it. It’s a tranquilizer only meant for horses. It first appeared on the East Coast a few years ago and is now almost everywhere. We begged him to go to the hospital, which he insists he has.
Dec 30, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
We found a fentanyl addict who was overdosing and we saved his life. @tarafaul503 and I found him sitting in an unnatural position with labored breathing and we knew immediately what was happening. His friend was right next to him and had no idea. He briefly tried to wake him
and seconds later Tara administered Narcan. After thirty seconds of chest rubbing and and talking to him, he came to. He was confused for a moment, then quickly recovered. He was very happy we only gave him one Narcan. If you give a person multiple
Dec 24, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A former crack addict with a warning of why to never use drugs. @tarafaul503 and I met Faye at a bus stop. She spent many years using every possible drug (starting in the early 80s) and the results are evident. She was handed thousands of ‘clean’ crack pipes back in the day by
Harm Reduction workers and now wonders how things would’ve turned out differently if they would have told her no.