Samuel Blaze Naujokas
snaujokas.bsky.social
Samuel Blaze Naujokas
@snaujokas.bsky.social
Professional fish geek

Views expressed here are my own

📍San Francisco, CA
(He/him)
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" Repeal of 'Roadless Rule' could upend protections across millions of acres of forest in Oregon and Washington." 🌎 www.kgw.com/article/ente...
Repeal of 'Roadless Rule' could upend protections across millions of acres of forest in Oregon and Washington
The Trump administration is looking to roll back a law that places tougher restrictions on logging in remote portions of national forests.
www.kgw.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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penelope scott was real for this:
April 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is meeting this perilous moment in American history — taking an exceptional stand for ALL of us.

The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…
April 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Cory Booker is THE man!

This is what having young, competent party leadership looks like and we need every ounce of it we can get!!
April 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse
March 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races.

This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.
February 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Last week I attended a trans day of remembrance service at a local synagogue.

Far too many trans people are killed or driven to suicide. May their memories be a blessing and may the number be far smaller next year.
November 26, 2024 at 2:36 PM
The loss of Simon's Rock is weighing heavily on me.

We need MORE innovative liberal arts education in this country, not less.
Thinking about how many kids I went to the now-closing Simon’s Rock with-a weird school stressing critical thinking, love of knowledge, and liberal arts - *weren’t* rich. Brilliant people with scholarships.

Feels like the end of an era where you didn’t need independent wealth to study like that.
November 22, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Out of the firehose of hot takes about what happened and what comes next, this might be my favorite yet.
Opinion | Democrats, It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Our Neoliberal Era
The Democratic Party can seize defeat to establish a new order, but the era of tinkering around the edges is over.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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I wrote about a hypothesis that has long fascinated me: that the disasters and destabilization caused by climate change are pushing people, and nations, toward authoritarianism. grist.org/politics/aut...
Authoritarianism is on the rise. Is climate change to blame?
There's evidence that global warming creates fertile ground for political strongmen to come to power.
grist.org
October 29, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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"The halcyon days of youth linger in the mind the way the briny taste of an oyster lingers on the palate. My friend Julia writes one day, nostalgic, saying that she had just assumed life would always be like that—and then it wasn’t."

By Emma Marris

hakaimagazine.com/features/fin...
Finding Food and Solace in the Intertidal | Hakai Magazine
On the complex pleasures of harvesting shellfish with the people you love.
hakaimagazine.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:33 PM