Today in Labor History January 6, 1937: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade formed to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Roughly 4,000 American men and women fought for the Republicans in violation of U.S. law. Nearly 2,000 of them died of wounds or disease. One of the casualties was Oliver Law, a communist, and the first black man known to have commanded white U.S. troops. He led the Tom Mooney Machine-Gun Company, named for labor organizer Tom Mooney, who spent years in prison on trumped up charges related to the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing. You can read my article on Tom Mooney and the Preparedness Day bombing here:

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Today in Labor History January 6, 1916: 8,000 workers called a strike at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plant. On January 7, their wives and family members joined them on the picket line. Company guards attacked the crowd with tear gas bombs and live fire, killing three strikers and wounding 25 others. #workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #union #steel #youngstown #teargas #murder

Today in Labor History January 6, 1878: Author-poet Carl Sandburg was born on this date in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg also worked as a labor organizer. His work was published in the “International Socialist Review,” as well as Max Eastman’s “The Liberator,” and later worked for the “Chicago Daily News.” The Feds accused him of being a Bolshevik symp, when he was actually just a working class symp. Sandburg died on July 22, 1967. WORKING GIRLS (by Carl Sandburg) THE working girls in the morning are going to work-- long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores and factories, thousands with little brick-shaped lunches wrapped in newspapers under their arms. Each morning as I move through this river of young- woman life I feel a wonder about where it is all going, so many with a peach bloom of young years on them and laughter of red lips and memories in their eyes of dances the night before and plays and walks. Green and gray streams run side by side in a river and so here are always the others, those who have been over the way, the women who know each one the end of life's gamble for her, the meaning and the clew, the how and the why of the dances and the arms that passed around their waists and the fingers that played in their hair. Faces go by written over: "I know it all, I know where the bloom and the laughter go and I have memories," and the feet of these move slower and they have wisdom where the others have beauty. So the green and the gray move in the early morning on the downtown streets. #workingclass #LaborHistory #CarlSandburg #poetry #poem #writer #author #books [@bookstadon](

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Home HHS announces unprecedented overhaul of US childhood vaccine schedule. Experts said there’s no reason to change a system that has prevented 1.1 million deaths over the past 30 years. “There will be more diseases, more infection, more hospitalization,” said Jesse Goodman, a former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief scientist. Meanwhile, there's already an increase in pediatric deaths due to the decline in vaccination rates. Two Texas children died from measles last year in an outbreak that has reached more than 2,000 cases and shows no sign of stopping. Thirteen people died from pertussis, also known as whooping cough, which infected nearly 28,000 Americans last year.

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Point Lobos during a break in the rain new years weekend.

And some beautiful examples of a really dangerous mushroom: Amanita ocreata, or the Destroying Angel. Actually one of several species knows as Destroying Angels due to the toxicity and resemblance to many edible species. Probably the main culprit in many of the recent mushroom poisonings that have been in the news lately. It resembles its cousin, Amanita muscaria (the classic Mario Schroom), in size and shape, but is white and not red. These are found in leaf litter in the Carmel Valley, California.

Here's a really cool find: Hypomyces cervinigenus, a parasitic fungus that attacks other fungi, sending its mycelium throughout the host, until all that's left is the shell or shadow of the host covered in a ghostly white veil made up of parasitic mycelium. This was also found in the Carmel Valley, California.

2 earthstar fungi growing in a grassy field. I believe they are actually false earthstars, but still pretty cool specimens.