Welcome to the 5th post of #scanuary.

It's a month-long marathon of daily tweetorials about #POCUS and its uses

I hope you found yesterday's post about bile duct PoCUS useful

Today we're going to discuss renal PoCUS

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🌟Let's start with a case

A 75 yr old patient presents with delirium to ED.
PMH
CKD
T2DM
CHF
Dementia
Bloods show AKI & raised inflammatory markers
CXR is nil acute
So, treated as urosepsis and admitted

This patient gets an extended examination with ultrasound (EEUS) and this is what we find on KUB exam

Pt had bilateral moderate to severe hydronephrosis due to bladder mass causing post renal AKI

There is a primary school in a quiet village in Bengal with a building named after a Venezuelan revolutionary who helped liberate much of South America. The answer lies in the long, meandering story of India–Venezuela relations. Thread. 1/22

This week, as the world awakes to one of the most startling geopolitical developments in decades — the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces in a dramatic military operation, it’s worth pausing on an unexpected tributary of history. 2/22

In a week when Venezuela has once again crashed into the global news cycle; amid dramatic claims and Washington’s familiar long shadow, it may be worth stepping away from the noise and asking a quieter question: what does Venezuela mean to India, really? 3/22

As mentioned now that mkts are open again I will do a no of deep dive 🧵 on Humm Group $HUM.AX.

As you prob know, I own ~29mm shs here (~$20mm AUD); and have (along w/ CSAM) called an EGM to effect Board Renewal, that will be held on Feb 19, 2025. All details here:

hummboardcleanout.com

These threads will be organized as follows:
1) What are we playing for? (valuation, etc - 50+% upside imo if we win)
2) The status quo (incumbent Board) and what it offers
3) What I/new Board offers + event/arbitrage set-up

NB you should only look at this if you intend to vote in the EGM. It is not hard to vote - full instructions will be forthcoming - takes 5min online for most Aussie shareholders. If you hold through IBKR/overseas brokers it is a bit more involved but still, not exactly difficult.

Also - given the high reflexivity of this idea - that is, the more who believe in it and vote, the more likely it is to work - if you agree w/ the thesis/goal, I would appreciate all sharing on this one. 🙏🙏

OK, on to the 🧵, what are we playing for?

$HUM.AX is a non-bank lender (non-bank financial services), w/ two main businesses: Commercial and Consumer. This is a quintessential 'good business, bad Board' set-up. Fundamentally there isn't much wrong w/ the business, I am not trying on some massive operational turnaround, this is all about simple blocking and tackling on capital allocation and proper, fit for purpose governance norms.

Commercial is a jewel, they provide asset-backed financing to SMEs, for things like equipment, vehicles, inventory. Per below, this segment alone is doing $45-46mm NPAT:

Commercial has a long track record of structural growth (see below). AUM is growing, avg losses have been stable (and low) at ~1%; and CTI has improved sequentially over last 4yrs (currently <25% ie v competitive for this type of biz).

The opportunity remains large as banks continue to cede share to non-bank lenders (like $HUM.AX) better able to quickly offer and disburse credit to SMEs.

@atrupar @Shayan86 1).
The so-called „Donroe Doctrine” according to Orange Man @POTUS @realDonaldTrump

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@atrupar @Shayan86 @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 (@nytimes) Nov. 17, 2025 archive.ph/gZIFX

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 (@washingtonpost) Dec. 31, 2025 archive.ph/pR8YR

@atrupar @Shayan86 @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @nytimes @washingtonpost 3).
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The 8hr video of Jack Smith’s testimony was released by Congress on New Years’ Eve in between Epstein and Venezuela. It’s an extraordinary display of Smith’s integrity and attention to justice and fairness on 1/6. Allison Gill deserves praise for curating the key clips. 1/4

Smith clearly represents all who worked towards justice and public interest, expressing his confidence and rationale he had the evidence to prove Jan 6th case to a jury. He also shows his gratitude to those retaliated against - in just doing their jobs. This stood out to me. 2/4

I must say I’m impressed by Covington & Burling law firm who has stood strong during this retaliation. This is just 1/6 - they’ve worked with Smith to be cautious to not discuss any confidential details in his classified docs report still sealed by Judge Cannon. (1.3x to fit) 3/4

Here it is:

The damning email obtained by King Solomon through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

CONFIRMS:
The Central Intelligence Agency conspired and succeeded in the overthrow of the United States government on November 3, 2020.

In a stunning exchange, CIA Director Mike Morell turns to fellow Director John Brennan and asks if he would join in toppling the United States government during the November 3, 2020 election. Brennan not only agrees—but also expresses his gratitude.

CIA Mike Morell: “Can I add your name to this list? Will be adding Leon Panetta, Sue Gordon, Jeh Johnson, George, Lisa Monaco, and Mike Rogers. And working on adding Dan Coats, Mike Rogers (HPSCI), and Tom Bossert. And lots of other IC career folk.

“Trying to give the incapacitated vegetable, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this issue.”

CIA John Brennan; “Ok Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on.”

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It wasn’t just 51 former intelligence officials who were involved. The Central Intelligence Agency itself was actively involved as well, and its director, Gina Haspel, approved it.

* @DavidCariens was informed about the Hunter Biden “intel” statement by a CIA employee.

* David Cariens was read the text from the statement by a CIA Employee.

* David Cariens was asked to sign the statement by a CIA Employee.

• @JaniceCariens is retired CIA (1995), and she was also asked to sign the letter.

* Mike Morell testified that such action by a CIA employee would be unethical and inappropriate.

Here are the names of the 51 intel officials who overthrew the United States government.

1. Jim Clapper
2. Michael Hayden
3. Leon Panetta
4. John Brennan
5. Thomas Fingar
6. Rick Ledgett
7. John McLaughlin
8. Michael Morell
9. Mike Vickers
10. Doug Wise
11. Nick Rasmussen
12. Russ Travers
13. Andy Liepman
14. John Moseman
15. Larry Pfeiffer
16. Jeremy Bash
17. Rodney Snyder
18. Glenn Gerstell
19. David Buckley
20. Nada Bakos
21. Patty Brandmaier
22. James B. Bruce
23. David Cariens
24. Janice Cariens
25. Paul Kolbe
26. Peter Corsell
27. Brett Davis
28. Roger Zane George
29. Steven L. Hall
30. Kent Harrington
31. Don Hepburn
32. Timothy D. Kilbourn
33. Ron Marks
34. Jonna Hiestand Mendez
35. Emile Nakhleh
36. Gerald A. O’Shea
37. David Priess
38. Pam Purcilly
39. Marc Polymeropoulos
40. Chris Savos
41. Nick Shapiro
42. John Sipher
43. Stephen Slick
44. Cynthia Strand
45. Greg Tarbell
46. David Terry
47. Greg Treverton
48. John Tullius
49. David A. Vanell
50. Winston Wiley
51. Kristin Wood

The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kash Patel:

“Since its inception in 1947, the CIA has a legal mandate to never interfere domestically, especially with PARTISAN POLITICS.

“And this letter shows that Gina Haspel’s CIA broke that mandate. That legal mandate did just that and her employees went out and had signatories added to a letter that they knew it contained false information.

“And there better be a whole host of subpoenas going out to Gina Haspel. Her leadership team and everyone of those people that have now been on the email chain adding signatures to that letter.”

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“Since its inception in 1947, the CIA has a legal mandate to never interfere domestically, especially with PARTISAN POLITICS.

“And this letter shows that Gina Haspel’s CIA broke that mandate. That legal mandate did just that and her employees went out and had signatories added to a letter that they knew it contained false information.

“And there better be a whole host of subpoenas going out to Gina Haspel. Her leadership team and everyone of those people that have now been on the email chain adding signatures to that letter.”

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* @DavidCariens was informed about the Hunter Biden “intel” statement by a CIA employee.

* David Cariens was read the text from the statement by a CIA Employee.

* David Cariens was asked to sign the statement by a CIA Employee.

• @JaniceCariens is retired CIA (1995), and she was also asked to sign the letter.

* Mike Morell testified that such action by a CIA employee would be inappropriate.

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🇺🇸THE BENJAMIN MARTIN OPTION🇺🇸 🧵

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There is a moment in the downfall of a nation when the question is no longer whether extraordinary action is justified, but whether hesitation itself has become culpable; not whether the system can be corrected, but whether continuing to behave as though it can has become an act of self-deception.

That moment is not announced. It is not ratified by institutions. It is not certified by courts, or experts—and if it was, we wouldn't believe them.

It arrives quietly, after every call for patience has already been honored—and exhausted.

We are there.

We are Benjamin Martin, from the movie The Patriot, holding his dying child on the front steps of his burning house.

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 3 “To everything there is a season… a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.”

CAPTURE, NOT BREAKDOWN (2/)

The American system has not broken. It has been captured.

In a broken system, errors are visible. Incompetence produces crisis. Corruption provokes punishment. Authority can be confronted because it can be named.

In a captured system, error becomes structural. Correction mechanisms are absorbed and neutralized. Elections change personnel but not direction. Courts and legislatures move against their own citizens at worst, and delay at best. The system continues to operate, but increasingly toward ends alien to those it was designed to serve.

This is not accidental. Liberal administrative regimes are optimized for exactly this condition. They do not rule directly; they manage. They do not assert moral authority; they proceduralize it. They do not suppress opposition; they exhaust it. Time becomes the weapon. Delay becomes governance.

The citizen is therefore instructed—endlessly—that nothing can be done except more of what has already failed. More process. More patience. More trust in institutions that no longer recognize the people they claim to serve.

At that stage, insisting on normal remedies is not principled restraint. It is participation in managed decline.

Isaiah 59:14–15 “Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off… truth is fallen in the street.”

THE SHAPE OF THE ADVERSARY (3/)

The force hollowing out American government is neither a monolith nor a conspiracy in the simplistic sense. It is a distributed sovereignty—a living network of aligned incentives, ideological operators, institutional gatekeepers, conditioned publics, and foreign puppet-masters. Some participants are malicious, others at least believe themselves to be sincere. Some wield power and wealth; others seek moral subversion. Their goals diverge, but their actions converge.

What binds them is not loyalty to a single idea or constitution, but hostility to the moral and civic restraints the old America embodied—to say nothing of plundering her goods.

This is why reformers find themselves defeated not by elections lost, but by victories nullified. Not by arguments refuted, but by processes delayed. Not by popular opposition, but by administrative suffocation. The system no longer fails accidentally. It fails selectively.

Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against… rulers of the darkness of this age.”

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see and become useful idiots towards their own destruction. Israel is not the problem. Israel is the solution. She has been fighting against Islamic terror, the kind we are seeing here in the streets of America and
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on college campuses. That is where the movement to destroy America began.

1. Charlie Kirk was killed after he said Islam was incompatible with the West.
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“We’ve been warning about the rise of Islqm on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with Western civilisation.” — reported from his show, June 24, 2025
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The second book in the ‘Anomaly in the Construct’ series by Carli B. Frueh isn’t just a story—it’s a war drum, a cracked mirror, a blueprint for breaking free. Out now, this isn’t fiction; it’s a vivid, pulse-pounding dive into a world where the cage is clay, and the keys are

ours to seize.

Picture this: a desert night, the glow of a dying phone, and a flood of raw voices spilling across X—real people, not puppets, peeling back the multilayered psychological operations being fed. That’s where Controlled Rebellion begins, born from the same restless

hum that’s driving a digital uprising. “Illusion Veils the Matrix, We Architect Our Own Reality, writes Carli B. Frueh, eloquently channels the defiance of a community done with scripted outrage and hollow influencers. This book is for the TruthSeeker777s, the NeoMatrix007s,

1/15 What a shame...I know MANY registered nurses...my daughter is one of them. I find them highly intelligent, but if you REALLY think God would send us someone so FLAWED to lead us, you are NOT among that group. He is a LIAR first off, and God HATES liars. Trump has NO morals,

https://twitter.com/honeymoon250/status/2007797217806233847

2/15 ethics, love, decency, integrity, honor, empathy, kindness, willing to help those less fortunate than himself, and basically a HORRIBLE human being, who is using the Presidency to enrich himself, his friends, and his family. He has added THREE BILLION to his wealth since

3/15 entering office in January. He is a full blown racist who treats those needing refuse within our walls like vermin, and people from Somalia "garbage", calling a SITTING member of Congress garbage and for her to go back to her "shithole" country; she was BORN in the United

Saudi Arabia's q3 current account numbers are out, and they -- unsurprisingly -- showed an ongoing deficit.

My rough estimate for Saudi Arabia's current account break even (the oil price that results in external balance) continues to be over $90 a barrel

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A reminder -- the external break even is calculating using reported oil export revenues, the non-oil current account, and net exports (my numbers there are dependent on getting regular updates from @Rory_Johnston )

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@Rory_Johnston i.e. Saudi Arabia needs $250 billion a year in export receipts from oil to balance its current account -- and that is much more than it gets with oil at ~ $60 a barrel

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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Democrats are already seeking to make criminal accusations against Trump for grabbing Venezuela’s President Maduro.
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But some of us remember when Democrat presidents did much worse, all without informing Congress under the War Powers Act, and with absolutely no reason that touched on American interests.
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Bill Clinton, without consulting Congress, near the end of his term in 1999, viciously bombed Serbia, destroying much of its capital’s infrastructure, damaging hospitals and civilian residences, and killing up to 25,000 people, all civilians.
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