UPDATE I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss. Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

Wasn't expecting this: Pope Leo, Amost Archaeologist www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Please take 7 and a half minutes and watch this.

As usual the best review is by @lauracummingart.bsky.social (imho, obvs). The show was moving and not, in retrospect, the head-to-head matchup I’d expected. I left feeling that they’d made each other stronger artists than they could ever have been alone. observer.co.uk/culture/art/...

For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...

Oh gosh. This is extraordinary and heartbreaking. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

lol

I heard there was a secret ape The state of missouri caught on tape But you don't really care for primates, do you

Sappho Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments transl. by Aaron Poochigian

Do better @nytimes www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mike...

this is an astounding news moment but it’s even more astonishing to me that society at large seems to believe that biden was president in 2019 and 2020 and not trump. not sure what’s going on with that

Saif Musallet was a 21 year old who lived in Tampa, Florida and worked at an ice cream shop with his father. He was visiting family in the occupied West Bank. Friday, Saif was beaten to death by Israeli settlers. The U.S. State Department must investigate the killing of a U.S. citizen.

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

🔴Claims that Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown ‘Radically Understates’ the Scale of the Threat Entire communities are now becoming locked into dangerous belief systems that are almost impossible to challenge, argues @eliothiggins.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/30/m...

The weather’s been getting pretty warm in NYC (today excepted) and I’ve been appreciating the cool breezes that pass by. Some burrowing animals can also appreciate a ventilating breeze in their homes, despite being underground! How do they accomplish this feat of engineering? 1/6 ⚛️🧪

I can’t recommend this true, lacerating and beautifully written piece by Sarah Beckwith highly enough. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My 14 June botanical illustration & mental health w'shop's now enrolling I'll teach you: 🌿How to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading 🧠How time spent creatively alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Limited spaces,earlybird price: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...