How to lie and flip-flop all at the same time:
🖥️ Eric Jones in Sep 2026: We need data centers & we need them in the U.S.
🩴 → Eric Jones on Oct 8, 2026, LWV debate: I've always supported a moratorium on data centers
See also: rosietheboomer.substack.com/p/in-ca04-wh...
![Facts and values. Both are important, but sometimes one masquerades as the other.
The UCD press release, "California wolves feed heavily on cattle," appears to be purely fact-based, describing a study indicating two northeastern California wolf packs have been eating primarily cattle.
But values are there, too — they're just hiding. They become apparent when you explore unstated assumptions along with questions asked and not asked.
The study's published article states, "Systematic extirpation resulted in [wolves] near-complete elimination from the contiguous United States by the mid-1900s."
Translation: There was a deliberate, federally-funded campaign to eliminate wolves in the U.S. in the early 1900s. That attitude — seeing wolves as interlopers to be destroyed — forms the backdrop for today's attitudes about wolves.
When a study focuses on the percentage of a wolf's diet that includes cattle, when it discusses "stressed cattle" who are raised only to be eaten, it's no surprise to learn that funding came from a Rangeland and Cattle Research Endowment and California Cattle Council.
This is about rancher money.
Also in the background: The cattle roam over public land. Is that land being put to its best use? Can we lessen our reliance on cattle for food and keep looking for better strategies to live with wolves?
We treat wolves as intruders rather than members of our community when we focus only on their actions and not our own.
I have no quarrel with the facts of the study, but its values deserve a second look.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lz7zeft4bfyl7ddk7dfkfqpe/bafkreihxx3wfq5mhen265qkcatz2zlgyexfocjg54xn6irqz5htdfih7ay)
![Environmental
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Join us for Humanities Week!
The Lincoln Center and ASU Farm welcome
author and professor Roberta L. Millstein, who will
discuss her book, “The Land Is Our Community.”
Inspired by Aldo Leopold's land ethic, Roberta L.
Millstein reexamines this philosophy in light of
contemporary ecology.
Her book provides new interpretations
of interdependence, land health, and the
“biotic community,” offering a fresh take
on how these ideas can guide modern
conservation and restoration policy.
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![4. As an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, you wrote articles and served as the editor-in- chief for a campus newspaper, The Dartmouth Review. During your tenure as editor-in-chief, you published an article comparing Dartmouth’s Jewish university president to Adolf Hitler, and an accompanying cartoon, which pictured the president dressed as a Nazi.
The Anti-Defamation League condemned the article and cartoon, stating that they “serve[d] to trivialize the Holocaust and the memory of those people brutally murdered by the Nazis.” However, at the time, you denied that the article was antisemitic and defended its publication.
a. Do you regret publishing this article?
RESPONSE: As I stated at my hearing, I understand the importance of standing up to defend the right to free speech, whether or not you agree with its subject matter.
b. Do you believe it was appropriate to compare university administrators and their policies to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis?
RESPONSE: Please see my response to Question 4(a) above.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lz7zeft4bfyl7ddk7dfkfqpe/bafkreicinytk4t67zbdajv4o4nwwum4jj22wielpxt6wznzzmjlqxymjsi)
