by; Eliana Jonshon 17 Jun 2026 ----------------------: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-SGX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63cda26c-3353-4893-b7bc-05ddc58b5558_1400x933.jpeg Abigail Spanberger (Photo by Mike Kropf/Getty Images) “Moderate” Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) tapped a left-wing activist with a long history of pushing gender transitions for minors to serve on the state’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board, a move that contradicts the mealy-mouthed rhetoric Spanberger offered on the issue while campaigning, the Free Beacon‘s Jessica Schwalb reports. Spanberger announced Kellen MacBeth’s addition to the 26-member board, which provides policy recommendations to Spanberger on gay and trans issues, on May 22. As president and founder of left-wing group Equality Arlington, MacBeth has pushed local school districts to allow biological boys to play on girls’ sports teams and “oppose and resist” Trump administration efforts to prohibit biological boys from using girls’ locker rooms. MacBeth has also called the Trump administration’s efforts to prohibit hospitals from performing transgender procedures on minors “dangerous and discriminatory.” Though he has said parents should decide whether their children should move forward with those procedures, he has also urged Virginia lawmakers to reject bills requiring teachers to tell parents if their children identify as transgender in school. Such issues have garnered significant attention in Virginia following high-profile incidents of transgender students who were accused of misconduct in school bathrooms. Spanberger generally avoided addressing them while running as a “moderate” Democrat—asked whether she supported biological boys playing in girls’ sports and using girls’ bathrooms, she “gave vague answers arguing that local schools should make such decisions on an ‘individual’ basis without offering her own views,” Schwalb writes. “In one case, Spanberger ran from a reporter who asked her to give a ‘direct’ answer on the topic, leaving a campaign event in her car.” READ MORE: ‘Moderate’ Gov Abigail Spanberger Appoints Trans Activist to Virginia Advisory Board After Avoiding Trans Issues on Campaign Trail Additional reading: The FBI arrested “multiple individuals” in connection with alleged drone attacks targeting the UFC Freedom 250 fights held at the White House on Sunday, Director Kash Patel announced. The arrestees reportedly “discussed in messages attaching deadly payloads to drones in order to cause mass panic as well as using a gunman to shoot at the crowds.” They intended to target “capitalist elites,” “billionaires,” and politicians who received campaign contributions from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, according to the New York Post. Remember Cori Bush, the far-left “Squad” member from St. Louis who blamed her 2024 primary loss on the Jews? Bernie Sanders is backing her congressional comeback bid, Semafor reported. It’s good news for her campaign’s private security team, which includes a man claiming to be a 109-trillion-year-old spiritual guru who can summon tornadoes at will, Nathaniel Davis III, as well as Bush’s husband, Cortney Merritts, who was charged last year with defrauding the federal government out of tens of thousands of dollars in COVID-era small business relief funds. The pair made a combined $200,000 from Bush’s campaigns, and now, with Sanders’s support, they may get the gravy train back on the tracks. The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced indictments against 15 members of a militant Antifa group that erected blockades around a government building and obstructed federal officers in order to halt ICE operations in Minneapolis, including some who are accused of attacking agents and encouraging agitators to take up arms against “literal fucking Nazi gunmen.” Sleeping with the enemy: The former SPLC official Heidi Beirich, who led the left-wing group’s Intelligence Project, reportedly funneled $1.2 million in donor funds to an informant in the white supremacist group National Alliance who also happened to be her lover. Most of the money was deposited in the pair’s joint bank account. Cha-ching! Check out our full Tuesday lineup below. Texas’s James Talarico, 37, Shares a Checking Account With His Mom Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown 'Moderate' Gov Abigail Spanberger Appoints Trans Activist to Virginia Advisory Board After Avoiding Trans Issues on Campaign Trail DOJ Charges 15 Antifa Members With Conspiracy To Obstruct ICE Agents in Minneapolis Federal Probes of Newsoms Could Focus on Gifts to ‘First Partner’ Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Gender-Focused Charity and Gender Documentary Company A Mostly Violent Protest Movement ‘Flooded With Sewage and Garbage’: Michigan’s El-Sayed Says He ‘Rebuilt’ a Troubled Detroit-Area Juvenile Jail. Records Say Otherwise. Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts.