Katharina Borchert
@katharina.bsky.social
aka Lyssaslounge on what used to be Twitter.
Co-Founder Equilibrio. Former CIO Mozilla, CEO Spiegel Online. Part of the YGL family. Childless dog lady. No ghostwriters were harmed in the making of these posts. May include traces of irony.
Co-Founder Equilibrio. Former CIO Mozilla, CEO Spiegel Online. Part of the YGL family. Childless dog lady. No ghostwriters were harmed in the making of these posts. May include traces of irony.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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.
Vaccinations done. Flu. Covid. RSV. Protect yourself and protect your community. Stay safe out there. #healthcare #vaccines
October 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Vaccinations done. Flu. Covid. RSV. Protect yourself and protect your community. Stay safe out there. #healthcare #vaccines
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".
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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".
Maybe he should get out more instead of just checking the covenant eyes app on his son's phone.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
October 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Maybe he should get out more instead of just checking the covenant eyes app on his son's phone.
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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.
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.
September 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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.
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.
Imagine being so scared of gay people that you need to declare water soluble chalk art on public roads a felony. What a sad existence. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Judge Dismisses Florida Arrest Over Rainbow Chalk Art Near Pulse Nightclub
Ron DeSantis’ transportation department banned chalk art on roads and painted over a memorial to victims of the Orlando LGBTQ nightclub shooting.
www.rollingstone.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Imagine being so scared of gay people that you need to declare water soluble chalk art on public roads a felony. What a sad existence. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
You cannot possibly make this stuff up … www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
August 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You cannot possibly make this stuff up … www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
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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.
August 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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.
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. 😤
August 8, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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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.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
First DC Tesler diner opening next week.
August 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
First DC Tesler diner opening next week.
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.
5. This does a real disservice to readers. A recent Gallup poll revealed that 64% of Americans believe that crime INCREASED across the country in 2024.
In reality crime "was down in all seven categories of crime across all 10 population groups that the FBI measures."
In reality crime "was down in all seven categories of crime across all 10 population groups that the FBI measures."
August 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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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.
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
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.
popular.info
August 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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.
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
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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.
Yet the Trump Administration is moving to defund the fastest-growing source of electricity.
August 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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.
Yet the Trump Administration is moving to defund the fastest-growing source of electricity.
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Likely?
What are you even doing AP?
What are you even doing AP?
BREAKING: Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely increasing the costs of electronics.
Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics
President Donald Trump says he's imposing a 100% tariff on computer chips— a move that will likely raise the cost of electronics, autos, household appliances and other essential goods.
bit.ly
August 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Likely?
What are you even doing AP?
What are you even doing AP?
This definitely gives off major “very late stage Roman Empire” vibes. Unbelievable. #JDVance
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This definitely gives off major “very late stage Roman Empire” vibes. Unbelievable. #JDVance
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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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Americans love technology and absolutely hate science and that’ll always be fucking confusing to me
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Americans love technology and absolutely hate science and that’ll always be fucking confusing to me
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well well well
The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. www.rawstory.com/utah-republi...
GOP Senate chief changed consent law as relative faced rape charge involving 13-year-old
The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. Newsweek reported a Salt Lake City Tribune piece that Senate President J....
www.rawstory.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
well well well
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Asked AI to make a logo. No notes. 11/10
August 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Asked AI to make a logo. No notes. 11/10
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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...
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...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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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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...
“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...
August 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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...
“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...
We pay a little more and that means medication is more affordable? I’m getting a headache already …
Q: How do you stop the drugmakers from passing along the cost of tariffs?
MEHMET OZ: Let's use a model that's worked for external threats. That's what NATO did -- everybody has to pay a little more, we'll pay extra too - but we won't pay a lot more...that way Americans can afford these medications
MEHMET OZ: Let's use a model that's worked for external threats. That's what NATO did -- everybody has to pay a little more, we'll pay extra too - but we won't pay a lot more...that way Americans can afford these medications
August 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We pay a little more and that means medication is more affordable? I’m getting a headache already …
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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
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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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
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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