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Bill Keshlear
@ecodivide.bsky.social
Only when the muse demands it.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-keshlear/

January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
June 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Republicans In Name Only
April 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Prominently, former META board member Peter Thiel (right) gave us now-Vice President JD Vance, a Manchurian Candidate/theo bro/tech bro waiting to replace a president in mental and physical decline. (fin)
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March 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Among their funders are tech billionaires Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Vivek Ramaswamy and, unsurprisingly, Elon Musk. (4)
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March 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
These people are as educated as anyone in the “progressive” movement, especially when it comes to epoch-changing technologies like AI, crypto, energy tech and synthetic biology. (3)
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March 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Many of Yarvin’s acolytes in this New Right movement are sophisticated, young, educated, fashionable, aware, driven, amiable, and they are predominantly white and male. (2)

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March 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
MAKING SENSE OF THE SENSELESSNESS

Meet Curtis Yarvin, “philosopher king” to enlistees in the project to "dismantle the central pillars of America—government, law, business, education, culture, and so on," according to historian Heather Cox Richardson. (1)

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March 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, an advocate of mining and oil and gas drilling, has been confirmed to lead Interior. Burgum’s policies and politics while governor aligned closely with that of Utah, which has spent millions to gut federal-land management. (3)

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February 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Added to the mix of uncertainty is the impact of an executive order known as Schedule F. It strips career managers of worker protections and, theoretically, would more easily allow anti-Bears Ears locals, MAGA partisans, to step in. (fin)

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January 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Without much enthusiasm for Biden's monument, Trump's admin and its GOP allies in Utah are likely to do the bureaucratic equivalent of a "rope-a-dope" - at least for the next few weeks or months, until Inauguration Day dust settles and top managers take over. (2)

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January 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
AND NOT EVEN CAKE FOR “PATRIOTS”

As you expressed pride in being an American, Celeste, awestruck and warmly seated in the Rotunda, thousands – believing in Trump and his “populist” promises traveled to DC to celebrate – were parading in the cold (w/ the Proud Boys) or watching it all on TV. (fin)
January 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A MOMENT OF TRUTH

“Golden age!” Nailed it, Celeste, as you watched billionaires beam at Trump from privileged perches on the dais; as did his Cabinet (worth $7B, plus 13 other billionaires joining his administration) who took lesser seats; as did ungodly rich donors. (1)
January 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
IT'S OVER. STRAP ON THOSE SKIS AND BOOGIE

The 12-day strike virtually shut down one of the largest ski resort in the United States during the holidays, and was a public relations disaster of national scope for Vail Resorts, Inc., owner of Park City Mountain Resort.

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January 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
SKI PATROLLERS STRIKE, DAY 12

Park City's mayor and City Council tell Vail it's the resort's responsibility to resolve the conflict "without further delay."

This was after a Vail VP blamed union patrollers for the mess and publicly criticized the community in an op-ed.

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January 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
PARK CITY PATROLLERS ON STRIKE, DAY 10

A report from a local news outlet in the ski town highlights the disingenuousness, if not outright dishonesty, of Vail Resorts, Inc. that has aggravated the resort’s relations with its skiing public.

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January 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
PARK CITY SKI PATROL ON STRIKE, DAY 9

Ski patrollers walked out on Dec. 27 because they believe Vail Resorts, Inc. has adopted illegal tactics intended to stymie contract negotiations.

It's an unfair labor practices strike, and they've filed NLRB grievances.

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January 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
SKI PATROL ON STRIKE, DAY 7: SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE

(Or marketing that ignores the first rule of holes)

Don't read the 120 or so comments of Park City ski resort customers who had a really miserable holiday and will never return.

Nothing to see.

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January 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The union is organized, passionate, and has the support of skiers in Park City and across Utah, as well as affiliated union locals in Utah, Colorado. Montana, and Washington. 2/4

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January 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
PARK CITY SKI PATROLLER STRIKE: Day 6

Without an insider’s view, there’s no way to know how long the ski patroller strike will last.

Both sides seem to be digging in. 1/4

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January 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
EXPLOITING ESPIRIT DE CORPS TO PAD THE BOTTOM LINE

Thousands of ski patrollers all over the country work for free, and executives at the global conglomerate Vail Resorts, Inc. know it full well.

So why negotiate in good faith with Park City strikers?

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December 30, 2024 at 6:17 PM
AND NONE MAKES A LIVING WAGE

(Photo: Park City Canyons, Dec. 27)

Here's to the groomers, snow makers, lifties, burger flippers, toilet scrubbers, cashiers, yellow jackets, etc. who ensure your $2,500 per day Experience of a Lifetime™ is an experience of a lifetime.

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December 28, 2024 at 3:47 PM

Park City ski patrol went on strike this morning. About 200 deeply trained rescuers decided to take on the giant of skiing corporations, Vail Inc.

The company has hired "scabs" to replace them. Some have little medical training or familiarity with the mountain and its ski operations.
December 27, 2024 at 7:44 PM
That perspective is shared, uncomfortably, with affluent European-Americans, many of whom are considered by some Indigenous Americans to comprise the vanguard of the most recent wave in the continual cultural transformation of the West: settler colonialism. (fin)

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December 19, 2024 at 8:13 PM
A PORTAL TO ACCESS THE COSMOS (AND ANOTHER TOURIST ATTRACTION)

For many Indigenous activists and their allies, preservation of viewscapes, night skies and soundscapes in Bears Ears National Monument is important because it helps maintain a connection to the natural world. (1)

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December 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM