Ranger Matt
@tamranger.bsky.social
Park Ranger, photographer, outdoor recreationalist, and protector of parks and wild places.
Late last week Alpine Dam started spilling #alpinedam #alpinelake #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mmwd #marinwater #landscapephotography
January 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Late last week Alpine Dam started spilling #alpinedam #alpinelake #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mmwd #marinwater #landscapephotography
“We must also marvel at the titanic idiocy of our new ‘Donroe Doctrine’ ... I still can't really believe they are going through with this for it is so batsh*t f-ing crazy, and does so much lasting harm to our interests.”
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January 4, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration’s message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows this morning.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:18 AM
“We must also marvel at the titanic idiocy of our new ‘Donroe Doctrine’ ... I still can't really believe they are going through with this for it is so batsh*t f-ing crazy, and does so much lasting harm to our interests.”
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Saturday afternoon along Cataract Creek #cataracttrail #cataractgulch #cataractcreek #cataractfalls #helenmarktfalls #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mnwd #marinwater #waterfall #landscapephotography
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Saturday afternoon along Cataract Creek #cataracttrail #cataractgulch #cataractcreek #cataractfalls #helenmarktfalls #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mnwd #marinwater #waterfall #landscapephotography
If we were still a functioning democracy with a functioning constitution, Trump and his corrupt, lawless regime would’ve been impeached and convicted months ago.
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Trump First Invades Then Says He Will "RUN" Venezuela!
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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January 5, 2026 at 2:23 AM
If we were still a functioning democracy with a functioning constitution, Trump and his corrupt, lawless regime would’ve been impeached and convicted months ago.
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There was a break in the rain yesterday and I had another chance to get out to Cataract Trail #cataracttrail #cataractgulch #cataractcreek #cataractfalls #helenmarktfalls #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mnwd #marinwater #waterfall #landscapephotography
January 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
There was a break in the rain yesterday and I had another chance to get out to Cataract Trail #cataracttrail #cataractgulch #cataractcreek #cataractfalls #helenmarktfalls #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mnwd #marinwater #waterfall #landscapephotography
“Strip away the lies, and the picture sharpens. This was not about fentanyl, or justice, or even about oil in any serious economic sense. It was about power, about setting a precedent that the US can bomb, kidnap, occupy, and extract at will, laws and norms be damned.”
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Mary Geddry (@marygeddry)
The most important detail in this story is the one the White House doesn’t want you to linger on: the alarms were already sounding before the missiles flew.
Days before news broke of the U.S. strike ...
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January 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM
“Strip away the lies, and the picture sharpens. This was not about fentanyl, or justice, or even about oil in any serious economic sense. It was about power, about setting a precedent that the US can bomb, kidnap, occupy, and extract at will, laws and norms be damned.”
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Strip away the lies, and the picture sharpens. This was not about fentanyl, or justice, or even about oil in any serious economic sense. It was about power, about setting a precedent that the U.S. can bomb, kidnap, occupy, and extract at will, laws and norms be damned.
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Mary Geddry (@marygeddry)
This morning’s essay is different.
There’s no roundup, no compartmentalizing the chaos into neat sections, no pretending this was just another foreign policy headline. What happened in Venezuela wasn...
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January 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Strip away the lies, and the picture sharpens. This was not about fentanyl, or justice, or even about oil in any serious economic sense. It was about power, about setting a precedent that the U.S. can bomb, kidnap, occupy, and extract at will, laws and norms be damned.
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“By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors.”
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January 3, 2026
Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit to Congress a written justification for any documents from the Epstein files that the department had redacted or withheld.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
“By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors.”
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Sunrise #sunrise #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #baldhill #skyoaksroad #mtdiablo #landscapephotography
January 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
“The idea of government regulation and a basic social safety net to permit Americans to live their lives to their fullest potential was a key principle of the New Deal launched in 1933, and Mamdani was right to note that the New Deal was born in New York City.”
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January 2, 2026
Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as may...
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January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
“The idea of government regulation and a basic social safety net to permit Americans to live their lives to their fullest potential was a key principle of the New Deal launched in 1933, and Mamdani was right to note that the New Deal was born in New York City.”
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Coyotes overlooking the Pacific #coyotes #ridgecrest #ridgecrest #bolinasridge #bolinasbay #pacificocean #mtttam #mttamalpais #mttamalpaisstatepark #castateparks #americasstateparks #landscapephotography #wildlifephotography
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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January 1, 2026
On January 1, 1892, seventeen-year-old Annie Moore walked down the gangway from the steamship Nevada with her two brothers Anthony, eleven, and Philip, nine, and into history as the first person proce...
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January 2, 2026 at 5:12 AM
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Miller is a threat to all of us.
Stephen Miller isn’t just closing borders. He is trying to overturn decades of American history and progress.
Let’s stop pretending this is normal.
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Let’s stop pretending this is normal.
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?
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January 2, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Miller is a threat to all of us.
Tidepools at Pillar Point #pillarpoint #mavricksbeach #sailrock #pacificocean #sanmateocounty #sanmateocountycoast #landscapephotography
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Tidepools at Pillar Point #pillarpoint #mavricksbeach #sailrock #pacificocean #sanmateocounty #sanmateocountycoast #landscapephotography
“The hallmark of the first year of t Trump’s second term has been the attempt of the president and his cronies to dismantle the constitutional system set up by the framers of that document when they established the United States.”
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December 30, 2025
The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“The hallmark of the first year of t Trump’s second term has been the attempt of the president and his cronies to dismantle the constitutional system set up by the framers of that document when they established the United States.”
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The beach and tidepools at Pillar Point #pillarpoint #mavricksbeach #sailrock #pacificocean #sanmateocounty #sanmateocountycoast #landscapephotography
December 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The beach and tidepools at Pillar Point #pillarpoint #mavricksbeach #sailrock #pacificocean #sanmateocounty #sanmateocountycoast #landscapephotography
“It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.”
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December 29, 2025
In an appearance on New York’s WABC radio on Friday, President Donald J.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
“It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.”
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“Days ahead of trial, a federal judge has dismissed an indictment against a TikTok streamer shot by ICE earlier this year, citing constitutional violations by the government.”
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Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations
Days before Carlitos Ricardo Parias was set to to go to trial for assault on a federal officer, a federal judge dismissed the case against him. The judge cited the deprivation of Parias' access to cou...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Days ahead of trial, a federal judge has dismissed an indictment against a TikTok streamer shot by ICE earlier this year, citing constitutional violations by the government.”
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A recent afternoon at Alpine Lake #alpinelake #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mmwd #marinwater #landscapephotography
December 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A recent afternoon at Alpine Lake #alpinelake #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mmwd #marinwater #landscapephotography
“One of the curses of history is that we cannot go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might wish to. The past has its own terrible inevitability.
But it is never too late to change the future.”
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But it is never too late to change the future.”
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December 28, 2025
On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“One of the curses of history is that we cannot go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might wish to. The past has its own terrible inevitability.
But it is never too late to change the future.”
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But it is never too late to change the future.”
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Along Cataract Creek #cataractcreek #cataracttrail #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #marinwater #mmwd #waterfall #landscapephotography
December 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Along Cataract Creek #cataractcreek #cataracttrail #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #marinwater #mmwd #waterfall #landscapephotography
Along Cataract Creek #cataractcreek #cataracttrail #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #marinwater #mmwd #waterfall #landscapephotography
December 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Along Cataract Creek #cataractcreek #cataracttrail #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #marinwater #mmwd #waterfall #landscapephotography
There is nothing Christian about Trump or his corrupt regime.
“Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S. Constitution in favor of Christian nationalist authoritarianism.”
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“Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S. Constitution in favor of Christian nationalist authoritarianism.”
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December 27, 2025
Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S.
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December 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
There is nothing Christian about Trump or his corrupt regime.
“Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S. Constitution in favor of Christian nationalist authoritarianism.”
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“Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S. Constitution in favor of Christian nationalist authoritarianism.”
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