When I arrived on at the Hollywood
@Fred_Meyer
in Portland this evening, I was greeted by 12
@PortlandPolice
officers who were apparently guarding two dumpsters full of food that mutual aid orgs were trying to distribute and hungry folks were trying to eat
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@ORDOJ
hi! i am one of the people who was snatched off the street. please let me know if you need any first-hand testimony or information about their process.
they broke my 1st, 4th, 5th, and 8th amendment rights and flagrantly violated the ADA
yeah this is not tear gas
or not JUST tear gas, i guess
but looking like a combo of tear gas and vomiting agent
the feds are unabashedly using chemical warfare
CURRENTLY KNOWN SNATCHING VEHICLES
Florida CHU R57
GMC Yukon California 6T70903
GMC Yukon unmarked plates
GMC Yukon California 7WLTH79
GMC Yukon unmarked plates
Chrysler Pacifica Washington BTA2333
GMC Yukon California 6WGR263
GMC Yukon plates not clear, rental
#DefendPDX
saddened and cold, we headed home, leaving a solid crew of folks working through what appears to be an endless supply of food
stay tuned for updates, but that's it for now!
Remember folks: Capitalism wants this to happen. The managers were laughing. The cops smiling.
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The officers were upset at my documenting them loafing and my asking for their names/ids/cards and went to retrieve a store manager to tell me that I wasn't welcome and now would be considered tress passing.
that's right, the cops got a manager (in hoodie iirc) on me.
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And the meat.
so. much. meat.
think of all of the people hungry in warming shelters that would have LOVED some beef or a shrimp cocktail or a SIDE OF SALMON
it is a white legacy to strip the water of salmon and throw it away with no thought for the fish or people
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and i was like ok, that's a lot of food.
but i was not prepared for what i saw in the orange dumpster.
this is the orange dumpster.
it was basically full.
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@Stayathomemum6
@GSheralee
light torture, violated due process, solitary for some hours, separated from medically necessary service dog and medication, not given drinking water or soap or sanitizer
a 'fun' 8-9 hrs with DHS and USMS
now that the coast was clear, i ventured over and finally got to look inside. this is the green dumpster, which was maybe 1/3 or so full when i first looked in.
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Real talk: I started crying while I was taking soil samples for tear gas in the schoolyard today.
I am not ashamed that it makes me undeniably and powerfully sad to do the work that I am doing right now.
not wanting to get arrested for standing in a parking lot taking pictures of cops who wont give me their id numbers guarding private property to avoid people from eating, i moved my car and set up across the street, but by that time (5 min later), they had. all. left.
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it was not all cakes and coffee creamers (but like honestly wtf, coffee mate lasts forever)!
@teamraccoonpdx
showing off a nice veggie platter and i spotted a bunch of bags of peas and beans
many a healthy option for the diet conscious freegan
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If an LEO yells, etc at you for picking up munitions, tell them we are testing the Acute Aquatic Toxicity of their munitions under OAR 340-101-0033 (5)(a) and you are collecting spilled pesticide residues for a legally protected purpose. Feel free to name drop me (Dr. Simonis)
after not too long, the folks pulling food realized it would be helpful to open the doors, which from the looks of it, did help quite a lot.
and yes, those are boxes of frozen beef in the green dumpster
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and so many portland staples like almond milk and tofu, both which i think would survive a day without a fridge, but what do i know, im just a vegetarian who brings food from home when they travel (when we used to travel lol sobs)
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yeah so like this is the thing that i want everyone to realize. in addition to the snatch tactic terrorism, the units deployed to portland also have used chemical weapon terrorism, where we are left trying to forensic file the munitions to figure out what we're gonna die of
and the beverages.
why?
because they were cleaning everything out, i guess?
anything in a fridge, even if it was only a display fridge of non perishables
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Thank you to everyone who beared witness to this egregious act of brutality against me for daring to write in chalk on the sidewalk. Your documentation is so so important.
@jfer
very. wallace is a very well trained service dog who helps me survive with debilitating ptsd. he now has his own ptsd symptoms that we are working on. :((((((
~45 minutes after kidnapping me, the feds told me they were charging me with spray painting federal property.
that charge never actually got filed once they realized it was chalk and I was on city property.
Do not let their snatching of me keep you off that sidewalk!
A reminder to everyone downtown, as we head into the Snatching Hour, that the snatching vehicles often come out of the basement garage Wyatt Building, on 2nd and Jefferson.
And the sidewalk that surrounds that garage, and indeed the whole building, is entirely city property.
hi friends, this is a selfish ask, but i'm def feeling vulnerable AF right now after death threats and chemical IEDs
i could use some supportive words about the work that i'm doing.
i don't have bosses-- normally a good thing, but means i don't get any 'atta-person's in support
I'm at the Hollywood Fred Meyer and there was a solid contingent of PPB officers - 12 at least - guarding two dumpsters full of food from folks who are doing mutual aid and folks needing food themselves.
The police left, and the dumpsters are getting pillaged again
I wasn't kidding when I said it was like panning for toxic gold. Yesterday sifting through the sediment that's come down from the Justice center into the Willamette River, I found yet another fully intact pepper ball.
celebrating a victory in that today, for the first time since i was kidnapped and tortured 87 days ago, i made myself three whole meals and ate them
recovery is a process, but wow here we are, on the up and up!
From DHS last night (2020-09-18) at the ICE building
Yes this is all from one night, and that I know there are multiple types of munitions not in this photo that other folks recovered. I'll add to this thread as I get them.
@aaronhuertas
tyty aaron, right now im ok suit wise, esp because i have to clear the charges they filed on me
the big thing right now is raising the alarms about what they are doing. our most vulnerable community members are at risk. if i was undoc or not a citizen, i wouldnt be here rn
We collected samples from 11 sources around the protest area in late July and contracted out organic analyses. The lab found 57 compounds we could trace to the three major weapons used
i'm sorry i'm behind schedule...
summer 2020: i was kidnapped and tortured by DHS
fall 2020: i was identifying this mystery chemical weapon DHS is gassing downtown with
winter 2021: i am sampling an elementary school yard for chemical weapons deposited by DHS
Yo NPR, the fence isn't around the justice center! If you're on the ground person doesn't even know the names of the buildings, maybe embed them with somebody from the local affiliate who knows the area and the context! What a joke!
friendly reminder that spelling woman and women with an x or a y is rooted in the erasure and exclusion of trans women. if you are interested in including non-binary folks, just say "women and non-binary people"
We collected samples from 11 sources around the protest area in late July and contracted out organic analyses. The lab found 57 compounds we could trace to the three major weapons used
What I managed to find tonight in the outflow of the stormwater drain from the Justice center into the Willamette River. This is clear evidence that chemical weapons are making it into the river
It's been 3 weeks since Wallace and I were kidnapped! We both still have very significant mental health impacts, thankfully he's okay physically, but my hands are still totally jacked up from how they handcuffed me. Apparently chalking a city sidewalk deserves this?
you know why it would be nice if journals allowed trans scholars (and cis ones too, tbh) to update their names on old papers?
so we don't have to get request to review manuscripts addressed to deadnames.
#AcademicTwitter
#TransInSTEM
#TransAcademic
Letha is rightfully calling for the ban of Andrew Ngo from twitter
After this explicit incitement, it is unconscionable and unethical to continue giving him a platform to foment hate and violent
the SUPER scary thing about the backpack sprayer is that we will have 0 idea of what they're using except from symptoms and signs.
no canisters for them to even have to pick up.
and they can mix chemicals in a sprayer if they want.
this is a major escalation of chemical warfare
A reminder to everyone downtown, as we head into the Snatching Hour, that the snatching vehicles often come out of the basement garage Wyatt Building, on 2nd and Jefferson.
And the sidewalk that surrounds that garage, and indeed the whole building, is entirely city property.
more and more and more people coming forward being like
OH THAT TIME WHEN THEY GASSED US THAT HARD AND I PUKED AND FELT HORRIBLE FOR DAYS AND GOT A MAJOR RASH AND MY HAIR FELL OUT AND I LOST 15 LBS ALL OF A SUDDEN????
yeah bbs
that time
i really hope national media gets this
hey hi fuck donald trumps taxes and literally pay attention to what is happening in portland where city, county, and state law enforcement are (and will be for the next year) FEDERAL DEPUTIES
i just had an interview with a reporter in which i said the phrase "it is the year of our goddess 2019 and if you're going to do a gender based study you need to at least acknowledge the existence of non-binary and trans people" and i hope that makes it in
screw you,
@theportlandtrib
for removing the Dr. from in front of my name from the KOIN article and hyperlinking "independent researcher" to our disability lawsuit (as opposed to, idk, any of the articles about my research)
SOUND FAMILIAR?
looks like the Federal Bureau of Prisons had a massive OOPSIE and had untrained officers deploy Defense Technology HC smoke inside a building when no one had gas masks on
IN 1998
they describes THE EXACT SYMPTOMS FOLKS HAD THIS SUMMER
In the early hours of August 20th, I walked the streets around the ICE building counting the impact marks and piles from
@PortlandPolice
and
@DHS
/
@DHS_FPS
Powder Balls (these carry a variety of toxic chemicals, most notably OC and PAVA)
Here's a map of my findings:
Community alert:
Downtown Portland Oregon, the feds have already been leaving live completely unspent FN 303 rounds around on the ground, they are lethal to dogs and will definitely pop if you step on them!
the canister that gets grabbed and thrown back is releasing a yellow gas that fades quickly.
this aligns with Adamsite being used, which when released is "canary yellow" and then fades out when exposed to oxygen
a yellow smoke can would stay yellow
@shanedkavanaugh
@maxoregonian
wait wait wait
so how can he be getting 'increasingly mad at the protests in the neighborhood' when there weren't in fact protests in the neighborhood?
like, do you even fact check ANYTHING
there hasnt been a protest at normandale in ages
At this point I honestly don't know what else any of the environmental organizations or agencies in this state want to see. I'm fucking pulling toxic munitions from the goddamn river.
Apparently DHS has a code name for me?
They called me the professor when they all of a sudden decided they were going to try and arrest me or something?