Avram Fechter
@afechter.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. Affordable Housing. Community Development. Politics. History. Small business owner. Loudoun resident. DC born. Rutgers grad.
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Video: Fmr. VA Del. @wendygooditis.bsky.social (D-Clarke) Announces Her Candidacy for U.S. House; Says “President Trump and Ben Cline [R-VA06] have attacked our health care, our jobs, and our democracy, and they are hurting families across Virginia” bluevirginia.us/2026/01/vide...
January 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Video: Fmr. VA Del. @wendygooditis.bsky.social (D-Clarke) Announces Her Candidacy for U.S. House; Says “President Trump and Ben Cline [R-VA06] have attacked our health care, our jobs, and our democracy, and they are hurting families across Virginia” bluevirginia.us/2026/01/vide...
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So now there are four Dems - @bethmacy.bsky.social @wendygooditis.bsky.social, Ken Mitchell, Pete Barlow - vying to take on far-right Rep. Ben Cline in VA06; the question is, what will VA's US House maps look like by the spring, & where will these candidates end up? bluevirginia.us/2026/01/vide...
Video: Fmr. VA Del. Wendy Gooditis (D-Clarke) Announces Her Candidacy for U.S. House; Says “President Trump and Ben Cline [R-VA06] have attacked our health care, our jobs, and our democracy, and they ...
See below for a powerful launch video - along with a statement and list of endorsers (including former Rep. Jennifer Wexton and former VA Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn) - from former VA Del. Wendy Goodit...
bluevirginia.us
January 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
So now there are four Dems - @bethmacy.bsky.social @wendygooditis.bsky.social, Ken Mitchell, Pete Barlow - vying to take on far-right Rep. Ben Cline in VA06; the question is, what will VA's US House maps look like by the spring, & where will these candidates end up? bluevirginia.us/2026/01/vide...
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Hours after the fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, parents, students and protesters confronted ICE agents after a raid at a high school.
School districts canceled classes as community members described fear, trauma, and escalating violence.
School districts canceled classes as community members described fear, trauma, and escalating violence.
‘I want them out’: Outrage over Minneapolis school ICE raid
Hours after the fatal shooting by an ICE agent Jan. 7, 2026, parents, students and protesters confronted ICE agents after a raid at a Minneapolis high school. School districts canceled classes as comm...
wapo.st
January 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Hours after the fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, parents, students and protesters confronted ICE agents after a raid at a high school.
School districts canceled classes as community members described fear, trauma, and escalating violence.
School districts canceled classes as community members described fear, trauma, and escalating violence.
Bella the Umbrella came out to support her Lightridge Marching Bolts teammates at All District band tryouts!
#londonparade2026
#londonparade2026
January 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Bella the Umbrella came out to support her Lightridge Marching Bolts teammates at All District band tryouts!
#londonparade2026
#londonparade2026
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Local assisted living facilities are taking additional security measures because the residents don’t want their care to be interrupted when ICE abducts their staff. Schools are closed for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. There is no facet of society or stage of life unaffected.
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Local assisted living facilities are taking additional security measures because the residents don’t want their care to be interrupted when ICE abducts their staff. Schools are closed for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. There is no facet of society or stage of life unaffected.
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NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
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“In an interview with CBS News published on Monday, Dec. 15, the 43-year-old's parents — who arrived in Sydney from Syria two months ago — said they were terrified when they first learned he was in the area when the shooting that left 15 people dead broke out.”
"When he saw those people on the ground covered in blood, his conscience and his morals compelled him to attack one of the terrorists and take away his weapon,” said the father of hero Ahmed al Ahmed: people.com/parents-of-a...
Parents of Man Who Disarmed Sydney Shooter Speak Out About Son's Courage: 'My Son Is a Hero'
The parents of Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who disarmed one of the gunmen involved in the mass shooting at a Hanukkah event on Australia's Bondi Beach, are speaking out about their son's bravery. Ahmed, 4...
people.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“In an interview with CBS News published on Monday, Dec. 15, the 43-year-old's parents — who arrived in Sydney from Syria two months ago — said they were terrified when they first learned he was in the area when the shooting that left 15 people dead broke out.”
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It is rare that i reach out to as many trump advisers and officials that I did today and get literally no one willing to defend this, even off the record.
"Trump Dances on Rob Reiner's Grave"
BREAKING: Trump Dances on Rob Reiner’s Grave
Even for President Donald Trump, this is sickening.
zeteo.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
It is rare that i reach out to as many trump advisers and officials that I did today and get literally no one willing to defend this, even off the record.
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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Add another name to the mix of potential Democratic US House candidates in Virginia next year - former Del. @wendygooditis.bsky.social (previously represented parts of Loudoun/Clarke/Frederick in the HoD). Hearing that she's livid about Medicaid/ACA cuts. Maybe VA06? Open seat?
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Add another name to the mix of potential Democratic US House candidates in Virginia next year - former Del. @wendygooditis.bsky.social (previously represented parts of Loudoun/Clarke/Frederick in the HoD). Hearing that she's livid about Medicaid/ACA cuts. Maybe VA06? Open seat?
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Hey world, maybe watch the World Cup and the Olympics on TV, yeah?
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hey world, maybe watch the World Cup and the Olympics on TV, yeah?
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U.S. citizens.
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
U.S. citizens.
Funny - but whoever it is has already been pardoned for assaulting the capital and will probably be pardoned for this….
MTG just resigned…
* U.S. AUTHORITIES HAVE PERSON SUSPECTED OF PLANTING PIPE BOMBS IN WASHINGTON, DC, AHEAD OF JANUARY 6, 2021, IN CUSTODY -- SOURCE
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Funny - but whoever it is has already been pardoned for assaulting the capital and will probably be pardoned for this….
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NEW: More than 80% of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during Trump’s federal law enforcement surge this year had no criminal convictions or charges, new data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime.
w/ Emmanuel Martinez
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Most immigrants arrested in Trump’s D.C. crackdown had no criminal records
A Post analysis of federal data shows that the arrests of immigrants with no prior criminal record shot up sixfold during the Trump administration’s crackdown.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
NEW: More than 80% of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during Trump’s federal law enforcement surge this year had no criminal convictions or charges, new data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime.
w/ Emmanuel Martinez
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w/ Emmanuel Martinez
wapo.st/4iC8oCR
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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
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Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
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NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump’s H-1B Visa Crackdown to Accelerate Wall Street’s Expansion in India
Investment banks are hiring finance specialists in hubs like Bengaluru and Hyderabad, a trend expected to accelerate after the H-1B crackdown.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Honestly, this is likely as good of a deal as the Democrats are going to get.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Honestly, this is likely as good of a deal as the Democrats are going to get.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
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This is not biggest surprise of night
But still a historic moment
Abigail Spanberger will become the first woman Governor in Virginia history
She is likely going to get a bigger win than 9% that Dems got in 2017 last time Trump was in White House
But still a historic moment
Abigail Spanberger will become the first woman Governor in Virginia history
She is likely going to get a bigger win than 9% that Dems got in 2017 last time Trump was in White House
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is not biggest surprise of night
But still a historic moment
Abigail Spanberger will become the first woman Governor in Virginia history
She is likely going to get a bigger win than 9% that Dems got in 2017 last time Trump was in White House
But still a historic moment
Abigail Spanberger will become the first woman Governor in Virginia history
She is likely going to get a bigger win than 9% that Dems got in 2017 last time Trump was in White House
Loudoun reports very quickly. That is all.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Loudoun reports very quickly. That is all.
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According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
The leading cause of death?
Covid-19
Reports @motherjones.com
The leading cause of death?
Covid-19
Reports @motherjones.com
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
The leading cause of death?
Covid-19
Reports @motherjones.com
The leading cause of death?
Covid-19
Reports @motherjones.com
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OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.