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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Politikexperten merken angesichts des Irankriegs an, die USA hätten keinen Plan B, aber das setzt voraus, dass sie jemals einen Plan A gehabt hätten.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It’s that time of the year again where I sit on the front porch with coffee in the morning enjoying the fragrant air and the buzzing bees. Moments of quiet joy before I inevitably make the mistake of looking at the news …

Front porch of a small house overgrown with blooming wisteria

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm so incredibly frustrated with media, especially US news media, right now. Most of them are failing their readers in so many ways instead of speaking truth to power and informing us. But some are thriving in unexpected ways and that gives me hope - looking at you @theonion.com and @wired.com!

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’m in the airport lounge in Frankfurt getting some water. The guy next to me looks frustrated and says: “Why do Germans hate ICE?” I take a deep breath and give him a 30-second version of German history in the 20th century. He looks horrified: “What? NO! I meant ice in your drinks!” 🤣

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I usually get asked a lot of questions about the situation in the US when I’m in Germany. But it hits different when you have coffee with your in-law grandma, a Holocaust survivor, and she says: “What is your plan? This is not 1933 anymore, it feels more like ‘38. Don’t wait too long.”

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My father’s first principle is punctuality and he is terrified of being late for Christmas services and possibly having to stand in the back. So every year we walk into a completely empty church one full hour early. My mom brings cookies and a flask with brandy. Merry Christmas everyone!

Empty church on Christmas Eve with a Christmas tree next to the altar

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

We walk into the big hall (former barn) where the family is decorating the Christmas tree. My mom says in lieu of a greeting: “Did you find Jesus?” My Jewish husband is particularly confused. “Nope.” - “I think the dog might have snatched him then.” Christmas truly is merry in this house.

Large Christmas tree decorated with straw stars and wooden ornaments standing in an old barn.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My US doctor prescribed a cream. My very costly #health #insurance doesn’t want to pay for it. The cost without insurance is an astounding $1,042.99 🫣 But I can get it in Germany for EUR 31,50. The exact same product. Xmas travel almost pays for itself 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Any other farm kids here whose parents have #homemade #jam from 1978 stored in the basement? And of course it’s still edible 🤣

A jar of homemade raspberry jam from 1978

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's Sunday night and we're sitting at the dining table writing Xmas cards. Many many cards. My husband drafts each text on his computer. I just whip out my pen and write. He stares at me in awe: "I married a freak who rawdogs Christmas cards. My life is wild" 🤣

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Folks, if you meet someone who has some kind of chronic disease, please do not tell them about how amazing your daily dose of colostrum makes you feel or how great cold plunges are. And do not dare to ask them if the vaccine caused this. Fate will not treat you kindly, neither will your sick friend.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Vaccinations done. Flu. Covid. RSV. Protect yourself and protect your community. Stay safe out there. #healthcare #vaccines

Woman with three bandaids on her arm after getting vaccinated. The bandaids have hearts on them.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I like Halloween decor and I like vaccinations. But combining the Halloween skeleton with your vaccine advertising might not be the best service to public health in a country ruled by "vaccine skeptics".

Skeleton on a box sitting right in front of a vaccine poster at CVS in October 2025

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Maybe he should get out more instead of just checking the covenant eyes app on his son's phone.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Wow. The EU was ready to sanction Google for abusing its ad monopoly today. But it was blocked after pressure from EU Trade Commissioner @marossefcovic.bsky.social & the U.S. DoJ. Europe just chose Washington’s corporate interests over its own citizens. Unprecedented. Self-inflicted.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

You cannot possibly make this stuff up … www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The social media accounts for federal law enforcement agencies keep posting the exact kinds of things you'd report to federal law enforcement agencies if a normal citizen posted them.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In the worst phase of jet lag right now. Stumbling around like a zombie after barely 3 hours of sleep. If I encounter one more person telling me “just go back to bed and keep trying some more” … you might read about it in the paper tomorrow. 😤

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/08/2025

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

First DC Tesler diner opening next week.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I have never lived in another country where the perception of crime and the reality of crime are so far apart. Sadly media has to shoulder a lot of the responsibility alongside reckless politicians whose main campaign strategy is scaring people senseless.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.

An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The sun delivers more energy to the Earth in one hour than all of humanity consumes in a whole year. In 2024, solar power alone accounted for over 60% of all new electricity generation in the United States. Yet the Trump Administration is moving to defund the fastest-growing source of electricity.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Likely? What are you even doing AP?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/08/2025

we didn't get an end of history so much as a private equity leveraged buyout of history that resulted in drastic costs cutting on the core product

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Americans love technology and absolutely hate science and that’ll always be fucking confusing to me

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/08/2025

well well well

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Asked AI to make a logo. No notes. 11/10

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

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There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp

Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...

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RFK Jr. Cancels $500 Million In Funding For Vaccine Development

The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

We pay a little more and that means medication is more affordable? I’m getting a headache already …

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

California #heirloom #tomato season is the best of all seasons. It’s #snacktime, baby!

Sliced heirloom tomatoes in hues of red, purple and yellow seasoned with salt and pepper plus oil and vinegar.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Yeah, we still use the term McCarthyism even though the scale and nature of his impact is a shadow of what is happening right now. It shows just how the US struggles to find appropriate reference points for what is happening now.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

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New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response

The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 26/07/2025

Portland, Oregon, which has a similar population as Helsinki, had 58 traffic deaths in 2024 www.portland.gov/transportati...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

From today’s episode of “Paragons of Morality”

Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, pleads guilty to child porn possession
By Michael Gryboski, Editor
Friday, July 25, 2025

NEWS
Author of Texas Abortion Ban Denies He Paid for Abortions Amid Bombshell Allegations from Former
Exotic Dancer
State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione authored Texas
"trigger ban" which banned abortion in Texas when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Earlier this week, he announced that he wouldn't seek reelection. Now state leaders are calling for his resignation.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I was just having some tea in the backyard when a hawk swooped down and grabbed a crow fledgling. A very noisy murder of crows then followed him and attacked him until he dropped the little crow. Way too much excitement for Friday-Me. So how is your Friday afternoon going? 😉

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I can barely tolerate Teams on my laptop ...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I cannot find the right words to express how dangerous and dystopian this is. Every single authoritarian regime in history has moved to suppress the freedom of the press early on. It's one of the key elements of control.

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Katharina Borchert @katharina.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

How many variations of this story have we seen by now? The bigotry is mind blowing.

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