Avram Fechter
@afechter
Aff housing/community dev specialist. Political/history junkie. Proud husband and father. Opinions my own.
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RIP NIH—not only did the director of the NIH resign today, but the website nih.gov is down. PubMed, one of the world’s most valuable repositories of medical knowledge, is also down.
I imagine Vance / Trump are reveling tonight thinking that they showed up Zelensky. But what the U.S. saw was the two of them shitting themselves — and all over our reputation — on the global stage. Putin must be thinking “Heckuva job Donnie!”
Going into the severe weather and hurricane season, this cannot be good. The Commerce Department has laid off hundreds of NOAA employees, many with specialized skills who work at one of the world's top climate science and weather forecasting agencies. Why it matters: The…
Keep this in mind: Trump will lie about anything.
Trump claimed that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent travelled to Kyiv by train but that "Zelensky was sleeping" and could not meet him. In reality, Zelensky met with Bessent at Mariinskyi Palace. Multiple photographs were taken and published of their meeting.
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN cnn.com/2025/02/14/cli…
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile,...
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
FACT CHECK: Canada has already announced this plan BEFORE Trump announced his tariffs.
BREAKING: Del. Dan Helmer Files Lawsuit Seeking $15 Million in Compensatory Damages for What He Argues Was Defamation Leading Up to the June 2024 VA10 Democratic Primary bluevirginia.us/2025/01/breaki…
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BREAKING: Del. Dan Helmer Files Lawsuit Seeking $15 Million in Compensatory Damages for What He...
If you recall, the Democratic primary in VA10 last June got nasty towards the end, with unsubstantiated allegations against Del. Dan Helmer - a leading candidate in that primary to succeed Rep....
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🚨 Trump’s White House OMB rescinds federal aid freeze.
My thoughts on President Trump’s shutdown.
The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association just released a statement saying “reimbursement for work performed under federal health care grants has been suspended.” They still don’t know if Medicaid reimbursements are too
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If you were born in this country, you're American. End of story.
The Trump administration just sent 500 marines on standby to help with California wildfires to the border instead, where border crossings are the lowest level they’ve been in over four years.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall…
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Pardoning the Biden family is not the same as pardoning the Proud Boys or other right-wing terrorists who beat up the Capitol Police.
The text of Trump's pardons and commutations for Jan. 6 is out. He is pardoning ALL defendants - including those convicted of violently assaulting police officers - outside of 14 defendants, who are receiving commutations and being released from prison.
Trump commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who were convicted for seditious conspiracies And the group of more than 1,000 pardons includes individuals like Julian Khater, who assaulted US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick and later pled…
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Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6...
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
An utter disgrace
A lawyer for former proud boys chairman Enrique Tarrio tells me Tarrio is being processed for release from a medium security prison in Louisiana, where he is currently serving a 22 year prison sentence after being convicted of seditious conspiracy for helping to organize the Jan…
Updating these numbers. Since 1976, two party vote for President: Democratic: 715,606,694 Republican: 712,585,440 Pretty nuts.
Since 1976, around 1.5 billion votes have been cast for President. Here are the totals for the two major parties: Democratic: 640,589,081 Republican: 635,282,690 Difference: 5,307,391 That’s a two party difference of about 0.3% That’s how tight America is today. 4/
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