National issues can have local effects. Sometimes those effects are bad; sometimes they are good. 

A federal crackdown on grants for local organizations that promote nitwittery like "Drag Queen Story Hours" for kids is a good thing. And it's happening right here in Alaska - well, in Anchorage, anyway. Thanks to the DOGE, the Alaska Humanities Forum has been notified that its federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities has been cut off. 

Why? In part because they support drag queens parading around children.

The Alaska Humanities Forum has been informed that its federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities has been terminated. The decision, communicated this week, is part of a shift in federal priorities under the direction of President Donald Trump. The NEH notified state humanities councils and other grantees that their funding is being cancelled immediately to align with “a new direction in furtherance of the president’s agenda.”

The Alaska Humanities Forum promotes events like “drag queens for kids” events and “whites not allowed” conferences.

In a plea for more local cash to make up the loss, the Alaska Humanities Forum's president, Anchorage Assemblyman Kameron Perez-Verdia, is promoting the various things the forum does - but somehow, there is no mention of their support for drag queens for kids, for which event the forum spat out this little pile of horse squeeze:

The April 5 event at Williwaw Social in Anchorage is titled: “Kids need to be around more drag queens, and other ways to make the world a better, safer, place.”

Also conspicuously not mentioned is that the forum also put on a conference about "race and land in Alaska," in which white people were barred from half of the conference.

A two-day conference on the relationship between “race and land in Alaska” is being sponsored by the Alaska Humanities Forum on Aug. 6 and 7. 

The first day of the conference is limited to  “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) folks,” according to the Alaska Humanities Forum.

Limiting a publicly funded conference to certain people based on race, by the way, is actually racist.

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The Alaska Humanities Forum sponsored these events that they now don't seem to want to admit to (and many thanks to Must Read Alaska's Suzanne Downing for shining a bright light on those) and with good reason; their federal increment has been cut off, and they will now depend wholly on local funds.

And, honestly, that's how it should be. If enough local people support this kind of bilge to kick in a few shekels to keep it going, fine. Donations are great in that they are voluntary; you can choose to give or not to give. Taxes, though, are not. If you don't pay, they will send men with guns out looking for you. That's why we, as taxpayers, should be able to expect that our government takes from us only what it needs for essential (read that as Constitutional) functions and to spend that money wisely.

Spending the nation's taxpayer money on Alaska drag queens meets neither of those criteria.

Elon Musk and DOGE are bringing much-needed accountability to our out-of-control bureaucracy as they take a chainsaw to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse.

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