Reposted by Robert Hewittgarethhutchens.bsky.social @garethhutchens.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The origins of neoliberalism, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, the Overton window, the Nobel Prize in economics, and cryptocurrencies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...abc.net.auThe economist, the bull and an elite movement that reshaped the worldA constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network. 1112052
Reposted by Robert HewittSidney Hickenbottom @sidhickenbottom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Taps the sign 1358
Reposted by Robert HewittPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 18/09/2025How to make an economist orgasm? Now remember - economists do it with models, so it's no easy thing. A Pigouvian tax on immobile resources! Climate change you say? Political leadership where even downsides are upsides? Good math? Let me explain.... 13113
Reposted by Robert HewittC.A. Petrov @capetrov.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better. 8484171
Reposted by Robert HewittRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025New research: our team looked at all the ways to reduce emissions from manure management in the US. While biogas digesters receive the most funding, other options like solid-liquid separation, acidification, and aeration are more promising & cost-effective. These emissions are also undercounted.wri.orgPromising Technologies Need a Bigger Push to Cut Manure Emissions in the USLivestock manure contributes over 1% of the United States' total GHG emissions. Promising solutions to curb the potent gas need more support and funding. 98026
Reposted by Robert HewittDan Blaustein-Rejto @danbr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025RFK Jr. today: “We need to give off-ramps to farmers so that they can transition to biodynamic agriculture..." To be biodynamic you must stuff cow horns with manure and crystal dust, bury them, dig up & stir with water for 1 hour in alternating vortexes, all to align the farm with "cosmic forces." 152
Reposted by Robert HewittTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025More evidence that the new weight-loss drugs don't just make you eat less - they make you eat better. The biggest reductions in intake on tirzepatide were in crappy foods - fatty, sweet stuff. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1153
Reposted by Robert HewittMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Americans will finally be told that fruits and vegetables are good and sodas are bad, why didn't anyone try this before 441378107
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Maybe they should embrace net zero policies so we don’t turn the earth into a complete hellhole… you know rather than just as a vote saving exercise… 000
Reposted by Robert HewittBeing Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025A real life American Hero... not hiding behind a mask. I bet soon we will know his name. We salute you brother for your civil courage and the eloquence. 20245621823
Reposted by Robert HewittThe Chaser @chaser.com.au · 09/06/2025"We are sad that the journalist didn't dodge the projectile that chose to go towards her" said her employer. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news... 6741131313
Reposted by Robert HewittAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025What's next? That's a question for how Labor chooses to handle the senatethenewdaily.com.auWhy this all-too predictable divorce is really a big question for LaborOnce the schadenfreude settles, there are some very serious questions to be asked about the Coalition’s split. 1013436
Reposted by Robert HewittTravis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The fact that antihistamines can be used to relieve itches and also as sleep aids has led me to the conclusion that Consciousness is a Form of Itch 16811189
Reposted by Robert HewittPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 11/05/2025The “chairman’s very happy birthday raffle” killed me. You can't even take the piss out of this nonsense. Crazy Gina and the glorious make work victories of Hancock Prospecting Motherland www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comThank you for letting us make you rich: claims of ‘bizarre’ culture in Gina Rinehart’s companyFormer staff lift the veil on life at Hancock Prospecting, where they say the boss is lavishly praised and adulation is encouraged 85216
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I wonder if he voted for Slytherin… #democracydangernoodle 000
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 28/04/2025@meatwatcher.bsky.social @wheatwatcher.bsky.social FAFO! 030
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This is very much a OneHealth issue. Pigs are the amplifying host, migratory birds the natural reservoir, mosquitoes the vector. JEV has killed 10 Australians since 2022. The APVMA needs to understand its role in OneHealth, industry does! Climate change will see more of these challenges enter Oz! 100
Reposted by Robert HewittMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia. 131115382883
Reposted by Robert HewittJenny Splitter @jennysplitter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The latest effort to overturn California’s animal welfare law doesnt have universal support among Republican lawmakers: sentientmedia.org/prop-12-is-u...sentientmedia.orgProp 12 Is Under Attack Again, But Some Republicans Aren’t On BoardInside the latest attempt to undo the landmark animal welfare law. 082
Reposted by Robert HewittDavid L. Ortega @dlortega.bsky.social · 10/04/2025With the tariffs on pause, Trump now turns attention to more pressing issues 252
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This is whole thread is worth the time to listen… 000
Reposted by Robert HewittAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2025Abigail Disney at @patrioticmillionaires.org: "The men we associate with 'broligarchy' are the emotionally stupid men (Bezos) psychologically underdeveloped men (Zuckerberg) damaged men (Musk) or overindulged & spoiled men Trump. They put more faith in aggression as a means of problem solving." 351840536
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025These blokes are just idiots, what’s worse is they make our idiots look smart. I feel the most sympathy for comedians and satirists how do you compete with this! 000
Reposted by Robert HewittMatthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 31/03/2025If the 2010s were marked by techno-solutionism, then the 2020s might be the decade of "natural solutionism". Both are flawed, disdain the regulatory state, and in both "expertise is treated as suspect, corrupt, or altogether illegitimate, with anecdotes and mantras replacing verifiable data"newrepublic.comThe Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-VaxxersFrom RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism. 214052
Reposted by Robert HewittSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/03/2025So that $10B bailout for farmers. Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence! But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... Let's talk about the payoff part first?media.tenor.coma man wearing glasses and a black shirt is sitting in front of a window .Alt: gif of Dwight Schrute shaking his head in disappointment 461311612
Reposted by Robert HewittMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth. 643307627197
Reposted by Robert HewittRobert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 10/03/2025'Input taxes in agriculture: Experiences and perspectives for European agriculture' New paper with Anders Branth Pedersen in Ecological Economics doi.org/10.1016/j.ec.... Free access via this link authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkOq3Hb%7... 21711
Reposted by Robert HewittCecilia Nilsson @cnilsson.science · 05/03/2025Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can. Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost: go.nature.com/3F0wQ0Lgo.nature.comEuropean data on animals aloft now publicly availableWeather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o... 212261
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025We really do have so much in common with Canada… 010
Reposted by Robert HewittGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Look, charts and polling can be tricky, so I'll try to walk you through this one... first let's try to work out when Trump started saying Canada should become the 51st state.... 77917
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 27/02/2025You know how simple it will be to get my vote at the upcoming federal election? This simple… Invest properly in sovereign vaccine production (humans & animals), you know like CSL did when it was government owned. 000
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025@agwatchers.bsky.social April 19 is Easter long weekend, April 26 is ANZAC day long weekend, May 3 is Labor day long weekend in Qld I’d say it will be April 12, but May 10 might be an outside chance if Trump keeps being a lunatic and the threat of Temu Trump builds momentum here. 122
Reposted by Robert HewittJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes 10196199515001
Reposted by Robert HewittStephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 16/02/2025School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...kqed.orgAfter Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQEDA state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials. 8865161834
Reposted by Robert Hewittmweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance. 5115020216291
Reposted by Robert HewittKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/02/2025Massive new piece here on one of the most financially lucrative but also the most shockingly fraudulent forms of carbon offsetting in Australia -------->>>>>> www.theage.com.au/interactive/... 38731
Robert Hewitt @meat-evangelist.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Good to see Trump stealing some of Dutton’s playbook, thought it was only one-way traffic! 000
Reposted by Robert HewittRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 06/02/2025When I started work on this story, I initially anticipated writing something short, sharp and pointed about how Australian conservatives have embraced nuclear energy. The more I learned about the nuclear influencers wooing the federal Coalition, the weirder things got. /1drilled.mediaHow Australia’s CANDU Conservatives Fell in Love with Canadian NuclearOntario, Canada is the only place in the world to tear out wind turbines and embrace nuclear power. Australia’s conservatives have been taking notes. 512573
Reposted by Robert HewittThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 06/02/2025Conservatives warning about George Soros but make the footage Elon Musk 733188897
Reposted by Robert HewittGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Fact checking Peter Dutton live.australiainstitute.org.aulive.australiainstitute.org.auAustralia Institute Live: Francesca Albanese calls refusal to criticise Trump's illegal Gaza plan 37429
Reposted by Robert HewittOverland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025"I want you to be strengthened by the violence that is being visited upon us in holding this event. How can you do anti-racist work if you don’t have racists coming for you?" A response to the attacks on the QUT Symposium.overland.org.auThe QUT Symposium: holding the line against rising racism - Overland literary journalLast weeks's QUT Symposium met in the staunch tradition of the Brisbane Blacks, who have fought for sovereignty, land rights, liberation and an end to racial violence for decades. It was a gathering o... 02915