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RT @helen_warlow: Stunning painting by Eyvind Earle (1916-2000) Disney background artist. This one of his own. @helen_warlow #Art

RT @helen_warlow: ‘Snowhill’ Kathleen Caddick Etching So bleak and beautiful. Calm but cold @helen_warlow #Art

RT @helen_warlow: Oooh forgot this one which should have been posted much earlier ‘Dawn’ Roman Konstantinov Oil on Canvas He used to be a art restorer in Kiev. Now he is an artist with two small children @helen_warlow #Art

RT @helen_warlow: Another by Anna Yarmoliuk I love her paintings. Great texture here Thought I’d better post another @helen_warlow #Art

RT @helen_warlow: Hello again ‘A Premonition of Winter’ Pavel Pokidyshev Russian artist ( Penza) He’s enjoyed many exhibitions including Norway and China @helen_warlow #Art

RT @ramblingsloa: Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. Kahlil Gibran

RT @BelindaGreb: This Western Screech Owl was in a nearby tree and its lighter color made it more visible. Its mate was pretty well camouflaged in another tree and much harder to see. Newly uploaded to my site

RT @BelindaGreb: Miracle, the sole surviivor of 1063's 2024 cubs and survivor after being separated from her mom early in her 2nd year.

RT @artist2005: Fisherman's Cottage Village Lane Watercolour Print: Mumbles, Wales in (20 x 16 ins) Mount via @Etsy £35

RT @BarackObama: Georgia! Tune in as I talk about the importance of voting for @KeishaBottoms for Governor and re-electing Jon @Ossoff to the U.S. Senate.

RT @MattStarrFineA1: BIRDTOBER 2026- DAY 28 with acrylic paint: bearded vulture #mattstarrfineart #birdtober #birdtober2026 #beardedvulture #vulture #vultures #beards @aholmesartstudio #bird #birds #birdart #birdillustration #birdpainting #birdartist #artchallenge #birdartwork #animalart

RT @VoicesofWW2: In the middle of World War Two, German soldiers in southeastern Poland started avoiding a cluster of villages. They wouldn't go in. They wouldn't take people out for forced labor. They put up warning signs and stayed away. They believed the area was infected with typhus. It wasn't. Two doctors had invented the whole thing. The man behind it was Eugene Lazowski, a young Polish doctor working for the Red Cross in the town of Rozwadów. He was watching the Nazi occupation tear his country apart. Executions. Deportations. People shipped off to labor camps, many never coming back. He wanted to stop it. He had no weapons, no army, and no way to fight. What he had was medicine. His friend and fellow doctor, Stanisław Matulewicz, had discovered something strange. If you injected a person with a harmless, dead strain of a certain bacteria, their blood would test positive for typhus. They wouldn't be sick at all. But on paper, they'd look like they had one of the most feared diseases of the war. And the Germans were terrified of typhus. It spread fast, it killed, and it could tear through an army. When the Germans found it, they quarantined the area and kept their distance. Lazowski realized what that meant. If he could make enough people look infected, the Germans would leave the whole region alone. So he started injecting his patients. He chose carefully. He sent the blood samples to German labs for testing, exactly as the rules required. The results came back positive. Again and again. The Germans declared an epidemic zone. Villages were quarantined. Soldiers kept out. People who would have been seized for forced labor or worse were left alone, because nobody wanted to go near them. Lazowski had to be careful. If too many cases looked fake, someone would ask why nobody was dying. So he spread out the injections over time and kept the outbreak believable. Eventually the Germans did get suspicious. They sent a team of doctors to inspect. Lazowski met them with food and vodka and played the gracious host. He guided them toward the sickest looking, dirtiest patients he could find, in the most crowded rooms. The German doctors, worried about catching typhus themselves, took a few samples and left in a hurry. The tests came back positive. The fake epidemic lasted until the end of the war. Estimates say it may have protected around 8,000 people. Lazowski also secretly helped Jews from the nearby ghetto, giving them medical care at enormous risk. After the war he moved to the United States and became a professor of pediatrics in Chicago. For decades he barely talked about what he'd done. Late in life he finally wrote a memoir. He called it My Private War. He died in 2006. He never fired a shot. He beat the Nazis with a needle and a lab test.

RT @JayinKyiv: It's not only Musk and the Russians pouring resources into saving the @GOP, it's Zuckerburg right there with them.

🚨 BREAKING: Meta has suspended Angie Nixon's organizing account ahead of the midterms. Nixon is the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Florida.

RT @VikkiGoodwinTX: My opponent talks a lot about taxes, but you’ll notice he never explains why our property taxes keep going up — in spite of all the promises. Year after year, Republicans have defunded our schools. We’re literally paying the price with higher property taxes. Local property taxes go up when the state sends less money to school districts and local governments, and they have to close their funding gaps. The state used to be an equal partner in school funding, and property taxes were low. Not anymore! As your Lt. Governor, I will raise the basic allotment and take pressure off our property taxes by spending the tax money we have already collected. Let’s end the cycle.

RT @StuartKlinke: Tree of the day

RT @hwinkler4real: You do not actually have to worry about that Sir ..IT DOES NOT happen

Abbott: And I care about our children. I don't want to see them transgendered at school.

🚨 BREAKING: The Fifteenth Court of Appeals just put a hold on Gina Hinojosa's right to review Greg Abbott's "intimate and embarrassing" emails with Elon Musk. The judges on the all-Republican court were appointed by… Greg Abbott

RT @allchronology: Zelenskyy is now officially accusing the U.S. under Trump of helping Russia in the war against Ukraine—This betrayal will never be forgotten. I stand with Ukraine.

RT @JamieBonkiewicz: Shouldn’t ICE be shoving them to the ground, waving guns in their faces, cuffing them, and deporting them to El Salvador?

Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family have landed in Miami after fleeing his country. This comes a day after they were granted United States visas by the Trump administration.

RT @thenatureegirl: Therapist; “There is a tiger in you” The tiger in me:

RT @LorraineEvanoff: Oh my fucking god. God speed Texas. Y'all need to get the fuck out and protest and make sure your voices are heard. It sucks. But that's the only way.