Foothill Regional Park #foothillregionalpark #windsor #sonomacounty #landscapephotography

Congress is back in session, and there is a frantic feel in the air. Republicans appear to be assessing the fall of Hungarian P.M. Orbán, Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior along with his abysmal job approval numbers, rising prices, and an unpopular war in Iran. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The ponds at Foothill Regional Park #foothillregionalpark #windsor #sonomacounty #landscapephotography

“The idea that those embracing the iconography of the Confederacy were simply defending individual liberty against an overreaching government became an article of faith among the radical.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Papermill Creek #papermillcreek #lagunitas #westmarin #naturephotography #landscapephotography

“The economic mess in which the US, and the world, finds itself is Trump’s fault. The trade wars, unjustified war in the Middle East, and attacks on US science, universities, and immigration that are throttling economic growth are all a product of Trump’s choices.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Orbán was using government money to finance CPAC. Orbán has clearly been working for the benefit of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin…So it appears that CPAC was funded by a foreign government that was working closely with Vladimir Putin.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

@tamranger.bsky.social ptreyes.org/event/grassl...

Salmon spawning in Lagunitas Creek last fall #salmon #lagunitascreek #mttamwatershed #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

“MAGA Republicans embraced Orbán as the leader of a movement to replace democracy with an authoritarianism that empowered the far right.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Congress is allowing the White House to break the law and violate the constitution, without so much as a peep from our big, brave, so-called freedom-seeking Republicans. They won’t even uphold their own oaths to support and defend the constitution from tyranny.” substack.com/@morethanjus...

Salmon spawning in Lagunitas Creek last fall #salmon #lagunitascreek #mttamwatershed #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

“It’s the antidemocratic weaknesses in our system that created the vulnerabilities that let this happen.”

Good job MAGA, you helped destroy our world standing, credibility and security youtube.com/shorts/W7i-Q...

Everything Trump and his regime touch, they destroy. RFK Jr. is causing immeasurable harm. youtube.com/shorts/NOBvn...

Salmon spawning in Lagunitas Creek last fall #salmon #lagunitascreek #mttamwatershed #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

“[T]he reality is that the whole country is being judged. Even though most Americans don't support him anyway. The whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the White House. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Evening view at the summit of Pilot Knob #pilotknob #lakelagunitas #bontempe #mttamalpais #landscapephotography

Old-growth redwood with a fire scar along Indian Fire Road #redwood #oldgrowth #indianfireroad #mttamalpais #mttamwatershed

“The Civil War was won not by the dashing sons of wealthy planters, but by men like Grant, who dragged himself out of his blankets and pulled a dirty soldier’s uniform over his pounding head on an April morning because he knew he had to get up and get to work.”

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Potrero Meadows at night after a search for a lost hiker #potreromeadows #lagunitasrockspringroad #mttamalpais #mttamwatershed #landscapephotography

Trump’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” was not just a reference to Iran. If he had destroyed Iran in our names, unhampered by the Republican Congress members who have vowed to defend the Constitution, it would also have been an epitaph for the US.

So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”

Seeing the moonrise over Lake Laguntias was a perk of working late because of a lost hiker call. The hiker was during the hasty search and I got to see this after clearing the call #moonrise #lakelagunitas #mttamalpais #mttamwatershed #landscapephotography

“The Easter Bunny’s blank eyes seemed first shocked and then desperate. It was a scene out of a surreal movie: the president of the United States describing a war next to a giant rabbit with big, vacant, eyes.”

Western Columbine blooming in Cararact Gulch #westerncolumbine #wildflowers #mttamalpais #mttamwatershed #naturephotography

Is this making us great MAGA? youtube.com/shorts/Qj7Gy...

“The American president has lost his mind.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover': Ex-diplomat www.rawstory.com/trump-admini...

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The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Nothing says expert like a weekend talk show host. When he gets fired the orange balloon will hire Sylvester Stallone as Secretary of Defense because, well, you know…Rambo. 🤨

The 25th amendment exists for a reason. This madman is the reason. This post is the reason. @SpeakerJohnson and @LeaderJohnThune, call Congress back into session today. Do your fucking jobs and defend America from this demented and deranged lunatic.

The “God squad” is the subject of a @biologicaldiversity.org lawsuit. “There are these bare bones restrictions on boat speeds & whale monitoring that could be lifted & then the Rice’s whale could go extinct in 5 years…for no f*cking reason” says Kieran Suckling www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Black bear tracks on Bolinas Road #blackbear #fairfaxbolinasroad #mttamwatershed #wildlife #wildlifephotography

“Krugman says, ‘[I]t sounds like he’s (Trump)…going to try and do something truly awful in an attempt to somehow redeem himself and the situatio’ in Iran.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...