A snowy February morning along Rattesnake Canal outside of Grass Valley #rattlensnakecanal #nid #nevadacounty #grassvalley #sierranevada
Ranger Matt
@tamranger.bsky.social
Park Ranger, photographer, outdoor recreationalist, and protector of parks and wild places.
On Saturday, Trump began selling access to his social media posts to Wall Street trading firms milliseconds before they go public, permitting them to buy and sell with insider information. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 4, 2026
On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
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Pebbles and cobbles at the South Yuba River #southyubariver #southyubariverstatepark #castateparks #americasstateparks #nevadacounty
Morro Bay State Park is one of California State Parks developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Here’s a CCC-built “comfort station” at campground.
In The Freedom Academy with Asha Rangappa, counterintelligence scholar Rangappa suggests the Republican senators have gone so far down the road of enabling Trump that they will simply rubber-stamp Blanche. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 3, 2026
Just before midnight last night, news broke that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had rescinded the order of May 18, 2026, establishing a $1.776 billion slush fund for those who claimed that the D...
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Spent the day exploring around Morro Bay #morrobay #morrobaystatepark #blackhill #eaglerock #slocounty
“The Department of Justice has been caught repeatedly misleading grand juries or committing misconduct in getting indictments.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 2, 2026
Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for transcripts of the grand jury p...
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A spring on Mount Tamalpais #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #water #naturephotography
“Administration officials insisted before the media that the project had been a great success, hurt only by “Radical Left SCUM that hate our Country.” In order to prove their lie, administration officials used the power of the government to harass, indict,.. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 1, 2026
In a classic Friday night news dump, the Department of Justice last night moved to dismiss the criminal charges against David Hearn, the U.S.
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The Bridgeport Covered Bridge at the South Yuba River #southyubariver #southyubariverstatepark #castateparks #americasstateparks #sierranevada
“Although the U.S. is not a signatory to that court, former government officials and legal scholars suspect Trump and administration officials are worried about future prosecutions.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 31, 2026
Courtney Kube, Monica Alba, Peter Nicholas, Gordon Lubold, Katherine Doyle, and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News reported Wednesday that President Donald J.
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Park rangers are protectors, explainers, hosts, caretakers, people who are expected to be knowledgeable, helpful, courteous, and professional: people who find you when you’re lost, help you when you’re hurt, rescue you when you’re stuck, and enforce the law when you or others can’t abide by it.
South Yuba River at Bridgeport #southyubariver #southyubariverstatepark #castateparks #americasstateparks #sierranevada
“The Republicans in charge of our government reject the vision of a government that works to support its people. They see government regulation, taxation, and a social safety net as an attack on individual liberty.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 30, 2026
Sixty years ago today, on July 30, 1966, Medicare and Medicaid went into effect.
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“Seventy-three percent of those polled said Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, while 27% said he has the right priorities. Sixty-six percent agreed that Trump puts his own gain over the good of the country.” substack.com/@hrichardson...
July 29, 2026
Ariel Edwards-Levy of CNN reported today that a new CNN poll conducted by the public opinion research firm SSRS found that 70% of adult Americans disapprove of the way President Donald J.
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The mouth of Estero Americano #esteroamericano #sonomacounty #pacificocean #landscapephotography #naturephotography
I just finished “The Gales of November,” and it was an amazing book on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the ship immortalized by the Gordon Lightfoot song. I remember the song growing up and watching the documentary about raising the Fitz’s bell 25 or 30 years ago, which got me interested in the story.
Estero Americano Coast Preserve #esteroamericano #sonomacounty #pacificocean #landscapephotography #naturephotography
“Accuracy is imperative. Without it, we will learn the wrong answers—not just about the details the judges of the Presidential 1776 Award competition seem to have changed to privilege white Americans over an Indian immigrant,… open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 27, 2026
On July 22, Sam Fortier of NOTUS reported that the Trump-appointed judges of the Presidential 1776 Award competition, emceed by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, apparently rigged the competition to ...
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Front row seat for a small airshow. Copter 6PG at Phoenix Lake doing a load-and-return to the nearby Hillcrest Fire in Mill Valley #aerialfirefighting #vegetationfire #marincountyfire #mcfd #fireseason
“From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions. They have acted as if the Constitution doesn’t exist… open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 26, 2026
From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions.
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Evening view of Mount Tamalpais from Carson Ridge #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #carsonridge #landscapephotography
“What is at stake is more than just buildings. It is the whitewashing and bulldozing of our history and culture, created over centuries by the many people who have built the United States, in service to the small vision of Trump and his enablers.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 25, 2026
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
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Late afternoon at Kent Lake’s Continental Cove #kentlake #mttamwatershed #thebigempty #westmarin #landscapephotography
