Gearing up to go to the ICE facility takeover

I’m Tara - a Portland resident, photographer, and artist. I’ve been embedded in documenting the streets of my city in its decline for the past several years. Here’s a few of my early photos below

A Tesla storage lot was fire bombed in Seattle amidst a string of coordinated attacks against @elonmusk in the Pacific Northwest. The environmental damage after torching several battery powered vehicles.....
@choeshow @kevinvdahlgren

A gunman just took a bus driver hostage in downtown Portland. Wow. Unreal. Here the shots go off. The bus got evacuated and the driver drove off as hostage

Night photos - a mini thread
I took a walk tonight in a relatively safe environment to keep myself out of trouble. Turmoil is beginning to brew in Portland

Portland’s justice center is boarded up and awaiting election night Restaurants are prepping for Portland riots

#portland 2020/2021 - a short thread of riot destruction photos from my phone, taken when I was just some mom nobody listened to

Have you ever been somewhere that is basically indescribable and even a photo doesn't fully show it? That was the burned down and rotting Portland Asian market I explored with @kevinvdahlgren and some scavengers yesterday <part 1> Shelves of rotting food and scorched bottles of fish sauce greet you at the door

Come on a tour with me of the post-apocalyptic pedestrian underpasses of Portland

Since people keep asking: it smelled like charred garbage and old pee

This will be a mega thread of photos. Hope you enjoy

https://twitter.com/kevinvdahlgren/status/1780733609990828436

Mid-path a man is living on a mattress. We chatted with him for a while and asked if we could pass to the left or right of his bed

Why am I not surprised that the displayed bathroom code at @stumptowncoffee Portland is Antifa hate speech?

1312 stands for ACAB, which is dehumanizing of police and you can see it tagged and stickered all over the city. No chance this was coincidental

@PDXReal1 The phrases all go hand in hand

He was alive. Driving to get groceries, I saw the sadly common #portland sight of a still body face down in public. Nobody was around so I stopped and sat waiting for 911 after my attempts to get a response failed

As a small woman it’s scary to jostle a man. Thankfully another guy showed up from somewhere and roused him while I was on the phone. He turned out to be an amputee. Labored breathing. Totally out of it. The other man thanked me at the end for caring enough to stop. What a strange world.

Why yes my child did get a label maker for her birthday. How can you tell? She must think I’m senile. I got labeled while putting my eyebrows on. A bunch of my kitchen things are also labeled. She labeled the wall too. My money is on the label tape running out by 3pm

I don’t think I ever shared this full clip of trans activist Chris Burney, professor at PSU, harassing @BillboardChris @peterboghossian and @realJamesKlug as they did interviews on the PSU campus. So much nonsense. He went on to physically harass people and attempt theft At this point things began to get animalistic with a homeless man screaming and students(?) surrounding the interviewers making noise. @realJamesKlug tried to walk away and was followed down a staircase

Downtown #portland PSU campus with @BillboardChris @peterboghossian and @realJamesKlug talking to people about whether children can consent to puberty blockers Downtown #portland PSU campus with @peterboghossian @BillboardChris and @realJamesKlug talking about whether children can consent to puberty blockers

@hunnybadgermom and I were observing the pop mob drag event at heathen brewing from across the street while blockaded aggressively by antifa. Their body language was changing and we tried to walk away but were followed on our heels right into the proto-cathedral of at James the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… They staged what looked like photographer security in costumes along the roof