Peter Weaving

GP and emergency department doctor cheerfully believing in better.

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

In other news, here’s a lion undergoing a CAT scan 🦁

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:

December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.

February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.

July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.

February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.

U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.

~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.

The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.

America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.

Slava Ukraina.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The best short piece I've read on Trump's new Predator America- Brilliant and crucially important @FT editorial

America has turned on its friends - https://t.co/pVsC3aoObN via @FT

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Your free speech champion…

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

30 Dec:

Five years ago today, five things happened in Wuhan. 🧵

1. Doctors at Wuhan Central Hospital, Dr Ai Fen and Dr Li Wenliang, blew the whistle on the growing number of SARS-related coronavirus infections. They put a warning out on WeChat.

[Neptune Rings @Neptune6Rings]

@clownworld

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

8/ For the FULL story of Trump's payments to prosecutors over the years

Check out Chapter 2 from Taking Down Trump: https://t.co/FxAKpvK1rZ

And for continuing legal and political coverage of the fight against Trump and Trumpism: https://t.co/ZQwocQkDRo

[Eleonora Svanberg @EleonoraSberg]

I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-)

Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

Labour is hiking taxes on billionaires.

Don’t be distracted by the farmers protesting in Westminster. Inheritance tax on farmland means the super rich will pay their fair share.

Here’s who’s most affected:

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

Maryland folks, I need another favor.
There is a person from Anne Arundel county that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 for about 3 years (Delta infection).

They probably don’t even know they are infected, but they are shedding a ton of viral material in wastewater
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[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump wins the White House. Again.
The Democrats blew it. Again.
A depressing yet predictable result.

[Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse]

Bernie Sanders on where the Democrats went wrong. I do wonder where American politics/Trump would be today if he'd been the nominee in 2016.

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

😂😂😂😂😂

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

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