Andrew Couts

me and my nephew Jake outside the Beacon theater to see Taylor Tomlinson

Jake and I having dinner at Bar Pitti in SOHO

On Sunday, I built railings for my mother-in-law who has mobility challenges and hasn’t been able to leave the house without someone there to help because of the lack of railings. Still have to install the spindles because I didn’t have the right screws.

in other news, i left the woods to do human activities

Don't panic over this. (We don't even know if the subs are really moving, or if they're just where they were headed to anyway)

Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found.
gothamist.com/news/forged-...

ADL Musk

I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found.

ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)

nymag.com/intelligence...

“.. Those two strong post-tariff jobs reports may have been a total mirage ..”

> @weisenthal.bsky.social

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

NEW: Palantir is greatly expanding its footprint within the US government as it becomes the Trump administration's "go-to software developer," reports @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

I’m sitting here with 70 pages printed and a highlighter and it feels like a DDOS by random documents. It’s a framing game — toss out a bunch of stuff, make strong claims about treason and Soros, and hope it sticks before other people can get the actual facts out.

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked Secrretary Noem's move to terminate temporary status for Nicaragua, Honduran and Nepaii immigrants, finding the cancelation was likely rooted in "racial animus." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

please tell me it’s not already reached that point

im being intentionally vague because the keywords that would
clarify it are made of spiders and sludge

have you seen the landscape

*who are

im sorry, it was a gamble. i’m trying to warn off the people are otherwise good but might be enticed by the Discourse Bubble that’s about to pop.

all i know is that cybersecurity PR apparently hasn’t seen that denim ad, and i hope it stays that way

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling (RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.

And so it begins...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

If you're in NYC, it's prob a good idea to get wherever you need to go for the evening earlier rather than later www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...

The Kremlin's Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia's network infrastructure to meddle with web traffic and trick diplomats into infecting their computers.

Microsoft found Turla, Russia's elite FSB cyberespionage group, hacking foreign embassies' staff in Moscow by directly meddling with ISP traffic to infect targets with spyware that silently stripped away encryption on their communications and credentials. www.wired.com/story/russia...

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

"They called the police for help, but local law enforcement turned them over to ICE."

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Hundreds of pages of records reviewed by WIRED show just how quickly DOGE gained access to systems at the Small Business Administration—and through it, a USDA system that handles payroll for federal l...

SCOOP: We filed a Freedom of Information Act Request and received hundreds of pages of documents about the system access DOGE members Edward Coristine and Donald Park received at the Small Business Administration. But nested in there was something even bigger...

www.wired.com/story/edward...

U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers

TSUNAMI WARNING 3: See tsunami.gov for alert areas. M8.7 080mi SE Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka 1625PDT Jul 29

Analysis | Google says U.K. hasn’t demanded ‘back door’ to users’ private data Lawmaker’s letter suggests Apple might not be the only company the British government asked for special access to users’ private data.

Just in from my colleague @willoremus.com, Google for the first time says it has NOT gotten the sort of secret backdoor legal demand from the UK that Apple did. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

There was no "missing minute" in Epstein jail video, government source says FBI officials promised raw, unaltered video to quell speculation about Epstein's suicide.

This just keeps getting dumber. (Also, very weird that this story doesn't cite @dmehro.bsky.social's reporting, which offers a potential explanation about how the minute got cut out of the "full raw" footage the FBI released: www.wired.com/story/the-fb...)

www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

the black lab isn’t even our dog

If your dog has a good life, you’ll have a good life too.

german shepherd sleeping in a chair

pile of dogs in a bed while a woman reads amongst them

black lab asleep in a chair with a woman snuggling her

german shepherd sleep on a deck

pups exhausted by vacation

DHS just posted another anti-migrant propaganda video with a bible verse. This time from Proverbs. The voiceover seems to be from The Batman (2022)

don’t do it

UPDATE 8.00h:
- Ceasefire in effect since midnight
- Heavy clashes on both sides right until midnight
- However, fresh Thai army statement this morning accuses Cambodia of violating ceasefire
- Meeting between commanders from both countries supposed to take place now