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On this day in 1912, a riot broke out in Grabow, Louisiana when gunfire was exchanged between organizing lumber workers and private gunmen hired by the Galloway Lumber Company, just one event in the Louisiana-Texas Lumber War. The clash left three union workers and one company gunman dead, wounding an estimated fifty more.

The event took place in the context of workers in the sawmill town of Grabow joining the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (shown), a branch of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union (LWIU), itself affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

On July 7th, 1912, the union workers held a series of rallies at several different company towns, including Bon Ami and Carson, alongside Grabow.

The group that went to Grabow, around 200 people, spontaneously decided to hold a rally with several speeches - labor leader Arthur L. Emerson spoke on top of a wagon to roughly 25 non-union men, plus the additional union men who had come with him.

Shots began between these workers and a group of four others, including Galloway Lumber owner John Galloway, in the local mill office, all of whom had later been found to be drinking before the incident. It is not known for certain which group fired first. Three union men were killed alongside one member of the private company security force. Approximately 50 more were wounded.

Over the next few days, more than more than 60 workers were taken into custody by police. Although the mill owner himself was arrested, he was released without charges soon afterward. Sixty-five of the timber workers' group were brought up on charges ranging from inciting a riot to murder.

The IWW worked to aid the incarcerated workers, with "Big Bill" Haywood fundraising for their legal fund. The trial lasted until November 8th, and its jury returned a not guilty verdict for all of the union men. All of those arrested were set free.

Although they had limited success in Louisiana, the LWIU successfully organized later, winning an eight-hour day and vastly improved working conditions in the Pacific Northwest after a 1917 strike. Today, there is a historical marker at the site of the riot, located on what is now the property of DeRidder Airport, Louisiana.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

CW: Drugs (don't worry y'all, still sober (CBD is the hardest thing I ingested today))(also this is going to be ranty because I'm off meds and have consumed a metric fuck ton of caffeine today)

Going off anti-psychotics is such a clusterfuck, but there are some definite fun parts of the withdrawal. The one I'm most well aquatinted with being that it makes drugs fucking awesome. Well, I'm not on drugs anymore, and that made withdrawal extra hard. Normally I would just drink my way out of withdrawal, and that's how I'd handle it, but this time I handled it much more gracefully, albeit still using substances, just substances I personally feel don't breach sobriety (CBD and caffeine so I'm not burying the lead)

I got two hours of sleep last night because of the withdrawal, so I woke up feeling like shit this morning. I was drowsy and getting brain zaps from being off my meds. I felt like I couldn't do anything. But I had to go to work today, so I showed up and got the energy drink we have on tap (free caffeine, yay!). This resulted in me being straight TWEAKED but not in a fun way, I could do stuff but I was having to talk myself into it for extended periods of time. I was doing things faster than normal, but my work sucked. Well, after 2 hours of this, one of my coworkers gave me $20 to get something from the smoke shop next door to help (they were suggesting I smoke some weed again). They had seen me off my meds and on caffeine before, but last time this happened I was still smoking, so they knew I wasn't just on drugs. I must have looked particularly bad, because they asked if I had taken any Adderall before offering me the $20. I took the $20, but as I've talked about before, I can't go back to smoking weed. Out of all the drugs I've been addicted to over the years, it was one of the worst for my mental health. Well I go to the smoke shop, and along with all the other shit I would love to take but refuse to (7-OH, regular weed, Phenibut) I spot some CBD gummies. Took a couple and got back to work.

They brought me right out of the withdrawal for a bit, but not entirely. See, anti-psychotics heavily dampen your dopamine receptors, I still have my dopamine receptors with substantially lowered tolerance. The mix of CBD and caffeine straight up felt like Adderall today. I'm probably typing like I'm on Adderall. I don't even like Adderall that much, but goddamn if it isn't fun to be off the meds and taking (the softest drugs possible) drugs.

I'm taking my first dose of risperidone in ??? days tonight the second I get home (they're waiting for me there) and going the fuck to sleep until I have to wake up for work tomorrow. I'm probably going to be an entirely different person tomorrow morning. But I didn't use this time being off meds, so I actually have nothing but good decisions to come back to when I'm back on the meds. This feels like the opposite of blacking out and regretting your life choices, this is the first time I've felt this way. Literally in a week off my meds I've addressed every major issue that I've been thinking about daily for the past year, and I haven't made a fucking mess of my life. I can't go off risperidone long term without ruining my life, but goddamn if I'm not happy with how this week turned out

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Trump: Wants American manufacturing to come back.

Also Trump: Let's put a 50% tariff on copper imports with just a three week runway.

NOBODY would EVER build a factory in these ultra-unstable conditions. They couldn't even afford to wire it up for power...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Cassian And/or

[-] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

i scroll chapobear at work (actually where i most use the site) so i probably shouldn't shit on my coworkers in the mega that seems like a dangerous game but on the other hand i am crashing ooooouuuuuuuuuuuuu

[-] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

I've had 2 people come into my work and explicitly ask me to violate federal law. I won't be doing it because I don't want to for multiple reasons, but it's wild that it's happened twice in one day.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

This guy works for the feds! Get em!!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I fucking hate that I'm now in the corporate world, even though its just a toe in the door. We're have a meeting where its completely irrelevant to anything I do. And its one thing if we never had any other meeting, but we do! I fucking hate this shit.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I've got two of these a week, they're not in person at least and I can just fuck around on my phone while not paying it any attention, at least

Still sucks though

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, both are via conference call, but it really doesn't make it much better. Especially when there's actual shit to get done.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Have anthropologists analyzed the bizarre obsession humans have with posting and liking constant "Who's listening in [CURRENT_YEAR]???" comments on every single fucking music upload to youtube ever? I would like to see some in-depth research into this vapid yet persistent phenomenon.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

just a mix of nostalgia and community seeking as adaptation to streaming destroying musical 'zeitgeist'; since most people dont actually have to listen to the radio the space of everyone is listening to x and the community springing from that is gone.

who's still listening in 20xx? oh hell yeah somebody else is doing this, im not weird

but then also just a bunch of geezers that listened to that shit when it was hot reminding everyone they're still alive. a genre i like of youtube comment are on old songs and these people recounting yarns about when they first heard it, it's cute.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago

When you’re talking with another white person and vibing and they decide they can trust you so they bring out the racism bear-despair

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Literally why I try not to interact with any white people that aren't already vetted by my non-white friends.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

many such cases

[-] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

I haven't lived in a place like that for a long time, but fuck it was tense.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Guy who rails against gooner-baiting in movies using the language of someone talking about queerbaiting

"...and of course there's like a two microsecond shot of the main character's feet in the trailer that you know they're just gonna edit out of the international release,"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Day ??? of schizo med withdrawal (final day, I picked them up today) Split on whether or not I'm being rational or manic right now

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I've come to the conclusion that the answer is both. I'll take my meds and see how I feel about my current predicament. My reasoning for coming up with this solution is completely logical, however there would be potential consequences and pitfalls that medicated Leyla needs to think about

[-] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The only good thing that come from COD franchise is this speech from finest hour:

"Welcome to Stalingrad. You're about to begin the greatest moment of your life. The Germans have lost hundreds of tanks and planes. Hitler's brutalized hordes are now advancing towards Stalingrad over mountains of their own dead bodies. Our Bolshevik Party, our nation, our great country, have given us the task not to let the enemy reach the Volga and to defend the city of Stalingrad. Forward against the enemy! Up into the unremitting battle, comrades, for Stalingrad, for our great country! Not one step back! Cowards and traitors will be shot! Do not count days, do not count miles, count only the number of Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver! Do not let up! Kill! Death to the German invader!"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Holy shit that is... Very unexpected waow-based

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

RIP Kutnar

Thanks Obama

[-] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

lets-fucking-go WE WERE MEANT TO LIVE FOR SO MUCH MOOOOOORE! HAVE WE LOST OURSELVES!?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Each piece of awful rage inducing news I see brings me one step closer to matt-joker

Probably should log off for a bit

[-] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

workshopping my dating profileif you've seriously looked into how to gain citizenship in another country, swipe right

if you're tryna raise kids in this absolutely doomed shitpit, swipe left

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

workshopping my dating profile


Look im just trying to take advantage of my employer’s paternity leave we can probably put the kid up for adoption after idk

[-] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

i could not imagine being such a fucking baby that i complain to my supervisor that my coworker isn't saying good morning to me enough. not even to customers! but to me/my coworkers.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

really enjoying the feature in kde where if I wiggle the mouse the cursor gets bigger and if I keep wiggling it keeps getting bigger and bigger until it fills the whole screen.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Ah fuck YES! I do it absent mindedly sometimes, or other times when I'm trying to point something out to my lovely Dr. Partner and it always makes me giggle

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Okay this is far from the worst thing about that Contrapoints post but why the fuck did she make it center-aligned?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

me: do piss come from butt

chatgpt: That is a great question! You're such a clever boy for asking me this! According to scientific stu

[-] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

The universe didn't have to be such that we get sunrises every morning and sunsets every night. There's this fantastic daily display of gobsmacking peace and beauty and every single person on earth can afford to witness it regularly.

Didn't have to be this way, but it is.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

Big thanks to the people working to get abortion pills into our fucking psycho states with abortion bans. birth control failed and a volunteer just saved me from spending money I dont have on a plane ticket out of state.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

not releasing the epstein client list is basically just admitting that every last rich person is a pedophile

[-] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Getting real tired of the "oh you expected him to just have a list of his clients?" Response too.

Maybe the federal bureau of investigation could put on together from the zillion pieces of evidence!

I have no false hope that they were going to but to act like the client list was supposed to have existed before the investigation? Come on

[-] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They said they had a client list. The head of the US Department of Justice said it was ON HER DESK ready to go out. They are pissing on their qanon base and telling them it's raining, the rest of us just keep getting dabbed on.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Okay listen. I know it's never once worked before but if we force the liberation movement to adhere to the sensibilities of their oppressors it'll work this time. - Every lib every time

[-] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

There are literally no wild animals in about a mile radius of my dorm because of all the outdoor cats and barely restrained dogs. Someone maybe possibly saw a fox and now there's panic that it's gonna eat all the cats.
Pet owners are stupid creatures

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

remembering the one time I asked two of my friends to check in on me via text during the week and neither of them did and I never knew how to bring it up to them and now we don't talk

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