Maximus Levinsky

Opinions are mine alone and do not represent any institution. Fight systems, not people.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥SEN. @ossoff: “A moral & political crisis afflicts our nation— a faithless president, self-dealing as he depicts himself as Christ + the Obamas as apes… he plunges us into war… while people pay more than ever for groceries/housing/health care he builds a monument to himself.”

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

This is what the billionaire capture of US sports looks like.

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

The Texas screwworm story is a version of this. The Reflecting Pool fiasco is a version of this. The Iranian war is a very large and ongoing version of this.
Everywhere you look, incompetence is having its natural consequences, with more to come. Much more, I'm afraid.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, got in a shouting match with the U.N.'s special representative for children and armed conflict, Vanessa Frazier, after she interrupted his remarks at Friday's meeting regarding allegations that Israeli soldiers and settlers committed sexual violence against Palestinians.

The meeting reached a boiling point when Danon accused U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of unfairly targeting Israel following Israel's recent addition last month to a U.N. blacklist of countries suspected of sexual violence in conflict zones.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

A Suffolk County man accused of destroying 13 Flock license plate reader cameras faces multiple felony charges.

He has pleaded not guilty, arguing the systems are unconstitutional and create an unhealthy surveillance state.

Jeffrey Scott Sovern, a 41-year-old engineer from Suffolk, Virginia.

Key Facts~

Incident: Between roughly April 1 and October 12, 2025, 13 Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras in northern Suffolk were allegedly intentionally damaged or dismantled, with parts (including solar panels) stolen from some installations.

Charges: He faces 13 counts of felony destruction of property, plus six counts of petit larceny and six counts of possessing burglary tools. Police say he admitted to the acts during the investigation and that a search of his home turned up matching components.

Plea and Defense: He has pleaded not guilty.

His position, as described, centers on the cameras being unconstitutional and contributing to an excessive surveillance state.

Status: Arrested in October 2025 and released.
The case has drawn attention from privacy advocates who see similar acts elsewhere as resistance to mass surveillance.

If you do…don’t get caught 😉

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

The same people who said masks were "literally 1984" think this is fine.

[sam🌪️ hit the wall @star1ightstan13]

genuine question, why does a train line or a new park have to go thru years of votes and environmental impact studies but something like this can just? happen?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Actual Maine voters continue to back Graham Platner:

“The Democratic party’s come up short in a lot of ways in terms of like whitewashing our candidates and being so morally elitist and kind of entitled at times. We have to be willing to get dirty”

“His baggage is nowhere near their baggage. We’re talking about people that are felons and people that take bribes”

“I really kind of think that we all have skeletons in our closet and we’ve all made mistakes especially when we’re younger”

[DreamLeaf 🌱🌻 🍉 @DreamLeaf5]

Wow it’s almost like “tough on crime” doesn’t actually work and you have to address the root causes

[🇵🇸 | WillowTheBirdwatcher | Arcee’s #1 Fan @Dopamine_Fan]

this Datacenter is only 200 meters from the zoo. These things make constant noise & heat the surrounding areas by up to 16 degrees. The Nashville Zoo is home to over 350 species of Leopards, Tigers, Rhinos, Zebras, Giraffes, Alligators, Monkeys, & more. Please sign the petition

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

It's happening 🚨

House GOP representatives are about to introduce a bill that would completely eliminate subsidized student loans.

They are trying to make it impossible to go to college unless you can afford to pay for it upfront.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

I’m not saying Graham Platner should or shouldn’t be a candidate for a Senate seat, but I am saying that the media’s treatment of Platner as compared to its treatment of Ken Paxton is the same as the media’s treatment of Joe Biden as compared to its treatment of Donald Trump. The media bolsters the MAGA narrative that there’s never a decent Democrat nor an indecent MAGA Republican.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

It is Albanians, not Americans, who are protesting against American corruption.
The US appears to have accepted the corruption of the Trump family, so we Americans have to rely upon the sound anti-corruption sentiments of others.
Truly embarrassing, but thank you, Albania!

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Democrats will of course not use this to their advantage

[Rob Milton @therobmilton]

- SAY IT AGAIN.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

meaning it goes from the size of 30,000 football fields to 15,000 football fields. cancel the fucking project