“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.” ~ Fred Rogers March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. Our transgender and non-binary community members need and deserve to be seen, supported & safe.

NO KINGS DAY - NORTH POLE & FAIRBANKS, ALASKA I’m happy to report that about 1,300 folks from North Pole and Fairbanks gathered at Fairbanks City Hall on NO KINGS Day! Fortunately, I was able to add my two-cents-worth — video below — among speakers who addressed a variety of pressing concerns :-)}

SANTA CLAUS 3-28-26 NORTH POLE - ALASKA ~ SANTA SAYS ~ NO KINGS! IMPEACH TRUMP! Also, release the Epstein files!

Masked secret police terrorizing communities, illegal, catastrophic war driving up our costs, pushing families to the brink. Attacks on freedom of speech & to vote & civil rights. Trump wants to rule as a tyrant. This is America & power belongs to the people, not wannabe kings or billionaire cronies

“Let me remind you what fascism is. I need not wear a brown or green shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing people may use political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy to retain its power of exploitation & special privilege.” ~ Tommy Douglas

A GENTLE REMINDER FOR SOME FOLKS: "In 1964-65, humans created Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Head Start. If you want to ‘Make America Great Again’, maybe revisit the era when you actually cared.” ~ @GodPod.Bsky.Social RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

➡️ “We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us, the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.” ~ Terence McKenna 👀 RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! 👀

A TIMELY REMINDER: I would like to remind everyone that the idyllic prosperity of the 1950s, that everyone seems to want to harken back to so badly, was made possible by a top marginal tax rate of 91% for the richest Americans. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT $79 TRILLION? U.S. WAR IN IRAN - OIL PROBLEMS? Norway’s Prime Minister explains how his country has NO national debt: “Corporations pay the highest tax in the world, OIL profits are taxed 78% — the opposite of what America does.” TIME FOR THE U.S. TO CHANGE SOME OF ITS POLICIES

➡️ NO KINGS PROTEST & new sock drive. Sat, March 28th, noon-2pm City Hall on Cushman Street, Fairbanks, Alaska. IMPEACH TRUMP! ABOLISH ICE! SUPPORT MUTUAL AID! Hot soup on a 26F day. New socks will be donated to non-profit The Bread Line. FIND A GROUP NEAR YOU: Indivisible.org & NoKings.org NO KINGS!

AN UPDATE: "Santa, the One and Only" documents my longstanding volunteer advocacy. I'm a former Mayor Pro-Tem of North Pole, Alaska. Santa Claus is my legal name. I’m a bishop, monk, protector of children, and gift-giver, as my namesake, Saint Nicholas, was many centuries ago. SantatheOneandOnly.com

⬇️⬇️ “Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong… With such a people, you can do whatever you want.” ~ Hannah Arendt

THE SAVE ACT: JD & MELANIA already have US Passports, state-issued IDs, and birth certificates — and can vote. DO YOU? CAN YOU VOTE? JD VANCE? James Donald Bowman to James David Bowman to Jimmy Hamel to JD Vance, when he married. MELANIA TRUMP? Melanija Knavs to Melania Knauss to Melania Trump.

NEWS FLASH! The Republican Party has announced that it is changing its symbol from an elephant to a condom, because a condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of dicks, and gives a you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed. :-)}

A TIMELY REMINDER FOR TRUMP AND ICE: If you are an American, your heritage is either Native American, slave, refugee or immigrant. That’s it.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY :-)} Irish Blessing Excerpt: My wish for you is that you might be brave in times of trial…When mountains must be climbed & chasms are to be crossed; when hope scarce can shine through. That you may always have a friend who is worth that name. YouTube.com/watch?v=G7O9OqBd2us

A TIMELY POSTER: “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” ~ Loraine Schneider (1965) It has popped up recently during the war in Ukraine, the 10-7 Hamas attack, as well as in Gaza, and now Iran. More than 100,000 innocent children killed/maimed in wars (2005-2020). ~UNICEF 😥☮

“Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.” ~Robert Reich “I love the poorly educated.” ~Trump

NO WAR! How can we teach our children that violence will not solve their problems, when our government always turns to violence to solve its problems? NO WAR! Also: RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!

➡️ “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” ~ Isaac Asimov

NEVER FORGET: The Republicans voted against Social Security in the 1930’s, against Medicare in the 1960’s and the Affordable Care Act in 2010. They have never cared about anyone except wealthy white men. (Braddroflit)

FRIENDLY REMINDERS: "Remember, rest is also productive. Drinking water is essential. And being kind to yourself? It is Mandatory!” ~ Purr.In.Ink "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." ~ Oscar Wilde

Millionaires stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026 today (3-9-26). Billionaires stopped paying in on January 1st. You're going to pay in for 298 more days. This makes zero sense. The wealthy should pay in all year like the rest of us. Scrap the cap. ~ Americans for Tax Fairness

"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking." ~ Andrea Junker "Trump processes information orally…non-reading evinces not stupidity so much as incuriosity. Narcissists are easily bored & Trump is no exception.” ~ Windsor Mann

Antifa is anti-fascism. ANTIFA IS NOT A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Antifa is the conviction that fascism must be opposed. The US has embraced this principle for generations. ANTIFA IS NOT COMMUNISM. IT IS RESISTANCE TO AUTHORITARIAN RULE. IT IS OPPOSITION TO DICTATORSHIPS. I AM ANTIFA. Patrick Goodness

March 8th: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! Celebrating 115 years of social, economic, cultural & political achievements of women! A gender-equal world, free of bias, stereotypes & discrimination, that's diverse, equitable & inclusive, where difference is valued & celebrated: InternationalWomensDay.com

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME! The majority of US States participate in Daylight Savings Time, & clocks jump forward an hour at 2am on 3-8-26. The same occurs at 1am on 3-29-26, throughout the UK & Northern Ireland. It’s a busy time at Stonehenge, as workers move the massive stones forward an hour :-)}

Trump fired Noem because of “a culmination of her many unfortunate leadership failures including the fallout in Minnesota, ad campaign, allegations of infidelity, mismanagement of her staff & her constant feuding with the heads of other agencies, including CBP & ICE.” (Trump Admin Official) Buh-Bye!

➡️ TRUMP IS A WARMONGER He is complicit in the deaths of innocent children in: Gaza = 20,000+, reported by Save the Children; Ukraine = 760+, reported by Al Jazeera; Iran = 180+, reported by Time US Congress must repeatedly challenge Trump & impose it’s War Powers Act authority. ✚ EPSTEIN FILES

A gentle reminder: "Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are; it solely relies on what you think.” ~ Buddha

When @santaclausalaska.bsky.social says it’s time to close the S Corp tax loophole, you know it’s time to close the S Corp tax loophole. Tell legislators: fund our state services, save the PFD, and make oil and gas corporations pay their fair share. Take action: fbxclimateaction.org/SB227

TRUMP IS A WARMONGER & MURDERER OF CHILDREN. Associated Press: Iranian state media says there was an airstrike that hit a girls’ school in southern Iran, killing at least 165 people & wounding dozens more…Guterres condemned the US & Israeli airstrikes as violations of international law & UN Charter.

ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES: 21% of adults in the US (about 43 million) fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category. ~NCES About 54% of US 16-74 year-olds read below a 6th grade level. Book-banning: If you make people ignorant, then it becomes much easier to control them. ~MSNBC

STOP TRUMP'S WARS! Trump’s 2nd term military actions & strikes: Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen & Venezuela. Threatened ops in Columbia & Greenland. Betrayed Ukraine & Gaza. (Council on Foreign Relations) ALL WARS KILL CHILDREN! SHAME ON TRUMP, PUTIN, NETANYAHU & CONGRESS! NO MORE WAR

“Be the reason why the lights flicker when you enter a room.” It’s time for our collective power to manifest in a way that protects our children and our environment. Here’s just one example… FAFO :-)}

WINTER IN NORTH POLE: Here I am in front of City Hall in North Pole, Alaska, where I have served as a Councilman, on-and-off, through the years. Forecast for Friday: -43F! I hope you and your loved ones, especially children, are warm, well-fed, sheltered, and loved. Sending you my love! Brrr! :-)}

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they’ve been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they’ve been taught. ~ Richard Feynman

I’m fairly certain that Trump shoved his head up his butt to search for the very best words for his State of the Union address. A lot of hot air and his customary crap. RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW! The only redactions should be victims’ and survivors’ names. Please support: MoveOn.org

PREGNANCY BEGINS WITH A PENIS. REGULATE THAT. I am a longstanding advocate for child health, safety, and welfare. Long before my Santa years, I decided to have a vasectomy, so that I would not be responsible for an unplanned pregnancy or abortion. PlannedParenthood.org ReproductiveRights.org

My therapist told me: “Write letters to the people you hate and then burn them.” Did that, but now I don’t know what to do with the letters.

TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION: We have three clear choices on 2-24-26: 1) Attend or watch Trump’s State of the Union Speech; or, 2) visit the nearest public bathroom and push the button on the hand dryer/blower; or, 3) WATCH THE PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION at MoveOn.org 1 & 2 = Hot Air. 3 = Truth. :-)}

Bernie’s California Billionaire Tax Act proposal for the 200 California residents worth more than $1 billion each: pay a one-time 5% tax on their assets to offset looming federal cuts to health care & support public education & state food assistance programs. Might be on CA’s ballot this November. 🎅🏻

RANKED CHOICE VOTING & OPEN PRIMARIES reduce partisanship, encourage more candidates to run, boost voter turnout, take power away from special interests and out-of-state influence, and make it almost impossible for anyone to rig an election. (Santa Claus) RCV 3-mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnr...

EMPATHY: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” ~Elon Musk “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” ~Hannah Arendt "Love nurture and protect our children. The greatest gift is love.” ~Santa Claus

“No one should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding hands with the person they love.” ~ Barack Obama

A gentle reminder: “Some stranger, somewhere, remembers you, because you were kind to them.”

➡️ “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” ~ Tolstoy ➡️ “The fear instilled in the children. Car windows being smashed…Helicopters flying above…parents being dragged off…5-year-old children to detention centers…children not showing up at school…missing school lunch…” ~ Bernie Sanders

STOP THE SAVE ACT SAVE requires every voter to provide hard-copy citizenship documents like a birth certificate or passport to register to vote. 1 in 5 American women lack proof of citizenship documents with their current legal name. SAVE does not allow access to online & mail-in voter registration.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! "Wishing you a lifetime filled with happiness, peace, good health, prosperity, and, most of all, love — the greatest gift.” ~ Santa Claus North Pole, Alaska

PEOPLE VS. FOSSIL FUELS: Trump endorses Big Coal & other polluters. His EPA has revoked its own 2009 endangerment finding that CO2 & other greenhouse gases, caused by burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil & gas, endanger public health & welfare. PROTECT OUR CHILDREN & THEIR FUTURE! SierraClub.org