June 8, 2017

Hoover also took memos on presidents: FDR wanted to find commies; Nixon wanted to find gays. / The Washington Post

Today’s Usonians grapple with how well they can live up to Frank Lloyd Wright’s ideals—or if they should even try. / Curbed

Fidget spinners are the new retail—their massive online sales have almost entirely escaped traditional middlemen. / BuzzFeed

Tehran calls White House’s poison-pen condolence letter following terror attack “repugnant.” / The Atlantic

Hawaii becomes the first state to commit to the Paris Accord, passing legislation to reduce emissions. / The New York Times

With the return of Twin Peaks, the Bang Bang Bar is open once more. And with it, Pieter Dom’s Spotify playlist, Nighttime at the Roadhouse—which imagines the soundtrack to any given night at the Twin Peaks watering hole—grows ever longer. / Spotify

Meet the self-published authors who are taking home the lion’s share of their earnings—and buying houses in cash. / The Guardian

“By downplaying the odds of passage, senators are able to reduce the amount of attention and public opposition that their deliberations might receive.” Republican senators are playing sleight-of-hand with their hardly revised health bill. / The New York Times

Russian malware controller hidden within a Britney Spears Instagram post comment. / Engadget

Gov. Brown meets with President Xi to discuss how Sacramento and Beijing can collaborate to combat global warming. / CNN

“I would always fall asleep in class, so eventually [the math teacher] would just relieve me of going to class, and said why don’t you go [learn] it on your own.” One way Harvard biologist George Church manages his narcolepsy: He stands a lot. / STAT

As the video for “Skim,” the wonderful new song by TORRES, depicts: Sometimes you just can’t let go of a relationship. (Kind of NSFW. It’s fleshy.) / YouTube