May 10, 2017

r/Radiohead’s Jordan117 sleuths out the real-world location of the OK Computer cover photo. / Reddit

Best estimates suggest every American on death row, a multiplier of inequality, is disabled. / Pacific Standard

Voter ID laws flipped Wisconsin for Trump, says a study using Minnesota as a control. / Demos

NFL’s new deal with Amazon shows that ESPN is on its way to pricing itself out of existence. / Decider

“Scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie.” Don’t play into the idea that “working-class whites” are Trump’s base. It’s false—and it undermines anti-poverty organizing. / The Nation

Trump staffers couldn’t convince him to stick with NAFTA, so they called Trudeau and asked him to do it for them. / National Post

Sidelined by a rigid, corrupt economy, South Korea’s youth impeached one president and elected another. / Foreign Policy

Exploiting a security flaw in cell networks, hackers are bypassing two-factor authentication at German banks. / Wired

“I love Houston because we’re able to be in a place that I don’t have to be afraid of people that don’t look like me.” Houston is now the most diverse city in the US. / The Los Angeles Times

Storms washed away an Irish beach in 1984. This April, an unanticipated tide put it back in place. / The Guardian

“After Spicer spent several minutes hidden in the bushes behind these sets, Janet Montesi, an executive assistant in the press office, emerged and told reporters that Spicer would answer some questions, as long as he was not filmed doing so. Spicer then emerged. ‘Just turn the lights off. Turn the lights off,’ he ordered.” The Comey story is unfolding almost too quickly to watch, but the tiny dramatic moments already suggest how good the movie version will be. / The Washington Post