I’ll be embedded at Riot Ribs for the next 24 hours, so if you need me, welp, I’ll be at Riot Ribs!

This also means I won’t be tweeting as much as normal tonight, but I will try to keep you up to date on the tear gas!

These onions are hanging from a canopy, which I find absolutely adorable.

There is never not a line at Riot Ribs!

These DHS agents came out and people chanted, “Feds go home!” People were even chanting it from the Riot Ribs line!

And then riot cops also arrived.

Jalapeño poppers are on the menu at @riotribs tonight! You heard it here first!

“Sign up to help or check the needed supply list @ : http://bit.ly/riotribs  THANK YOU!”

good dog alert

Also on the menu: my thumb (but only if you’re an adorable puppy

repeat good dog alert we saw this sweetie a few days ago, didn’t we?

VERY cool use of tax dollars at the federal courthouse.

It’s so COLD!! Could someone let god know that that is inconvenient to me, personally?

Here’s the dishwashing situation. There are plastic tubs with paper plates duct-taped to them labeled, “Wash,” “Sanitize,” “Rinse,” “Dry.”

They’re welding the big fence around the federal courthouse. Protesters have dismantled it with ease in the past.

This sign says, “Your abuses only galvanize our community,” and isn’t that kind of the essence of Riot Ribs?

An elementary schooler is here in swim goggles helping their parents drop off a bunch of meat and ice and obviously you can’t have a picture but please believe me that it is adorable.

The eponymous ribs.

Hot box dinners, now at Riot Ribs!

In a moment of calm before dinner, a cook adjust their respirator in preparation for tonight.

This cooler says, “Hot dogs 7/23” and is full of hot dogs.

I have a thing about eating meat with bones in it (the thing is that I don’t do it), but I just had some ribs for the first time and WOW it was transformative.

Protesters paint shields in preparation for tonight. The park’s beginning to fill up!

Water mountain is never not growing

Attention @PDXProtestPets you can eat at Riot Ribs too!

This sign says, “Nothing less than abolition.”

There are a LOT of people here now. Don’t make me estimate the crowd, please don’t make me.

A street preacher came to yell at the crowd and a group of protesters is following them around beating drums and blowing whistles so people can’t hear what they’re saying.

A protester showed up with 8 mismatched umbrellas to donate to Riot Ribs and I love the idea of them turning over their house for every spare umbrella so people can be slightly more protected from being shot by their own government.

I feel exhausted from sitting atop a pile of coolers for 9 hours but somehow a lot of the people cooking at Riot Ribs are the same people who were cooking when I got here and I just ?????? would like to know????? their secret?????????

This is my thread and I can post whatever I want https://twitter.com/lindseypsmith7/status/1286876985713545216

I just ran into @extracelestial at Riot Ribs and it reminded me to post her beautiful photo essay about Riot Ribs! https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/07/23/28668377/photo-essay-during-protests-and-after-riot-ribs-serves-up-community-care

This shield says, “We don’t need you.”

@PlethoraChutney and I tried to get @GriffinMalone6 to floss with us outside Riot Ribs and they wouldn’t do it so you can go cyber bully them now :)

I have seen a LOT of jalapeño poppers in the past 10 hours.

I’m going to try to physically stay at Riot Ribs as much as possible until noon, but there’s a whole giant protest going on just outside the canopy! Follow @tuckwoodstock @hungrybowtie @MrOlmos @PDocumentarians @GriffinMalone6 @suzettesmith and @45thabsurdist for coverage!

More grills are getting fired up and there’s good music and the mood is getting a little tense. SO many people here generally, but I like how no one walks through Riot Ribs’ cooler maze like we all know it’s off limits unless you’re grilling.