... what about ten?

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w ago

There is good news for coffee drinkers: Up to five cups of the brew a day are safe for most adults and may even have benefits for heart health, according to a new scientific statement by the American Heart Association. ☕️ wsj.visitlink.me/zhwvmO

From the wire this morning: "The Pentagon chief used the gender-neutral terms 'warfighters' and 'warriors' in his remarks and did not specify whether the testing requirement and treatment option is for women—whose testosterone levels also decline as they age—as well as men."

Wolfsburg (AFP) – Volkswagen workers staged protests nationwide Thursday as unions warned of "major conflict" if the struggling German car giant pushes ahead with what could be the global auto industry's biggest restructuring. www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

Union warns of 'conflict' as Volkswagen eyes mass job cuts

Volkswagen workers staged protests nationwide Thursday as unions warned of "major conflict" if the struggling German car giant pushes ahead with what could be the global auto industry's biggest restru...

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Hip-hop group Kneecap played a secret show in Berlin this week, their first-ever concert in Germany. The group have seen other concerts cancelled over their vehement pro-Palestinian stance. There's an interview and feature in @heistberlin.bsky.social: www.heistberlin.com/kneecap-berl...

Critics Tried to Block Kneecap From Playing in Berlin. They Came Anyway.

In an exclusive backstage interview, the Irish band talks about the political pressure that forced them to play their first Berlin gig in secret.

heistberlin.com

It's time. "On a sunny summer day at noon, only about 10% of Spain’s electricity comes from fossil fuels; around half comes from solar. Portugal does just as well, and France better still."

Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner

Green electricity means never having to say sorry for lowering the thermostat

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The German conundrum: The World Cup is on, but it's a Sunday. Can the neighbors call the police if you cheer too loud?

.@ruthbetold.bsky.social rounded us up to taste all the special-edition "World Cup"-themed chip flavors we could find in Berlin. Many are genuine marvels of modern flavor engineering. But find out in @heistberlin.bsky.social if any were actually, y'know, good. www.heistberlin.com/lays-potato-...

Who Will Win the Potato Chip World Cup?

Mexico Taco, BBQ Brisket, Loaded Fries — only one country's limited-edition chip can take home the trophy.

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Washington (AFP) — Rarely a week goes by without US President Donald Trump lavishing praise on the bodies of men he meets: fawning over "the muscles on this guy" or an athlete's "tree trunk" legs or a UFC fighter who is "too good looking" to be in the ring. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

All the president's men? Inside Trump's hot guy fascination

Rarely a week goes by without US President Donald Trump lavishing praise on the bodies of men he meets -- fawning over "the muscles on this guy," or an athlete's "tree trunk" legs, or a UFC fighter wh...

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City Chicken vs City Chicken: Berlin's brutal and bloody rotisserie feud that's spawned lawsuits, criminal investigations and landed one chicken tycoon in prison for torture... www.heistberlin.com/news/nhas-ci...

City Chicken vs City Chicken: Berlin's Bloody Rotisserie Feud

14 lawsuits and one man in jail for torture: the story behind Sonnenallee's rival rotisserie chicken shops is crazier than you could have imagined.

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This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Innsbruck (APA)--Mann in Tirol schoss sich selbst in den Fuß

"That sentence alone is enough to send indie Berliners of a certain age into a spell of Sebaldian melancholy so extreme it can only be resolved by a twenty-minute angry nap." Read @ajbwells.bsky.social's piece to find out what the sentence was! open.substack.com/pub/theaufla...

June Books: Rauhut, Miller, Hoyer

The GDR rock band Silly, poems by Alice Miller, and Katja Hoyer on the rise of fascism in interwar Weimar

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"Johann had taken issue with the use of the word murdered. Johann—a theologian—who loathes violence in all its forms! I voiced my surprise. I was not the only one. What could be so wrong with saying murdered?" A thoughtful short story about teaching in Germany, translated by @ajbwells.bsky.social.

Short fiction by Sylvia Krupicka

A new story, after Christa Wolf, in the original German and an English translation by Alexander Wells

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maybe the most just outcome is that that one guy gets banished from journalism for the plagiarism and the other guy gets banished from journalism for the overwrought kicker

gotta wonder what this means for guys who write reviews of dad books... www.wsj.com/business/med...

Dad Books Are a Dying Breed

Print sales of “serious” nonfiction are in serious decline, and publishers think the reason is the smorgasbord of podcasts and other new media their male readers are devouring.

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A tiger was shot dead by German police on Sunday after escaping from a private enclosure outside of Leipzig owned by a controversial tiger trainer who calls herself the "Tiger Queen" and attacking one of the animal keepers... www.rte.ie/news/europe/...

Escaped tiger shot dead by German police

German police have said they had shot dead a tiger that escaped from an enclosure run by a woman nicknamed the "Tiger Queen" after it attacked one of the keepers.

rte.ie

"Not everyone in Buruma’s Berlin is out for their own survival, but there are also vanishingly few saints untainted by compromise or selfishness." @brynstole.bsky.social reviews a new history of Berlin during World War II:

Dancing on a Volcano

In Ian Buruma’s telling, Berlin during World War II was a time of contradictions: hedonism, escapism, heroism, and compromise.

commonwealmagazine.org

In Ian Buruma’s telling, Berlin during World War II was a time of contradictions: hedonism, escapism, heroism, and compromise. @brynstole.bsky.social: 'Dancing on a Volcano'

Dancing on a Volcano

In Ian Buruma's telling, Berlin during World War II was a time of contradictions: hedonism, escapism, heroism, and compromise.

commonwealmagazine.org

this is a wildddd story

Yossi Bartal@yossibartal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Was interviewed by @heistberlin.bsky.social about my report with @danielbax.bsky.social concerning a made-up attack against a pro-Israel activist and the lesson we should all learn from it: "don't fake an attack on the U-Bahn. Fake it somewhere else. There are too many cameras."

considering that there's astoundingly little evidence this is actually happening at all this is ... quite the sweeping take !

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

After decades of declining church attendance and a profound rise in secularism, religion is having a moment in the U.S. Listen to "The Daily."

"From the Vietnam war in the 1960s to the Iraq war this side of the millennium, the slur of 'appeaser' has been used to hush dissenters against foreign interventions. This would be easier to take if the hawks occasionally emulated the Allies by winning." www.ft.com/content/50a5...

The second world war fixation gets the US into trouble again

The Iran war is the latest mess to spring from the idea that ‘appeasement’ is always wrong

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"Turning points are usually only clear in retrospect, but Iran and the Greenland crisis may prove to be the turning points that confirmed what negotiations over Ukraine merely suggested: This [US], far from being an ally of Europe, acts against Europe." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Keeps Saying He Wants to Leave NATO. Maybe He Already Has.

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In the AUFLAUF review mail this month: - Karaoke - Fascist afterlives - Very good literature - Pick-me-girls - Books cost 20c a page now??? - Finally the truth about the Limerick Writers Center theauflauf.substack.com/p/may-books-...

May Books: Barton, Koeppen, Celan

An expat novel by Polly Barton, two thirds of Wolfgang Koeppen's postwar trilogy, prose ephemera from Paul Celan, and an apology

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Interesting statistic in this article by Jon 'Into Thin Air' Krakauer. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Some great reviews this month: @brynstole.bsky.social on Wolfgang Koeppen's post-war trilogy, @return2sanders.bsky.social on Paul Celan's still-mesmerising ephemera, and myself on Polly Barton's novel of expat life and karaoke and translation:

May Books: Barton, Koeppen, Celan

An expat novel by Polly Barton, two thirds of Wolfgang Koeppen's postwar trilogy, prose ephemera from Paul Celan, and an apology

theauflauf.substack.com

I read a bunch of Wolfgang Koeppen and—you know what?—it was really good. Lots more here in the latest issue of our freshly baked literary casserole.

Mathilde Montpetit@mathildegm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some great reviews this month: @brynstole.bsky.social on Wolfgang Koeppen's post-war trilogy, @return2sanders.bsky.social on Paul Celan's still-mesmerising ephemera, and myself on Polly Barton's novel of expat life and karaoke and translation:

i got to write about ian buruma’s new book on life in nazi wartime berlin for this month’s books issue of the wonderful @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/dancing-volc...

Dancing on a Volcano

In Ian Buruma's telling, Berlin during World War II was a time of contradictions: hedonism, escapism, heroism, and compromise.

commonwealmagazine.org

Gallery Weekend Berlin starts tomorrow. Here’s where to go. www.heistberlin.com/art-heist-gu...

The HEIST Guide to Gallery Weekend 2026

HEIST picks the best of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026: from Potsdamer Strasse to Kreuzberg and beyond, plus four Sellerie Weekend highlights for Sunday.

heistberlin.com

"that's why X is the future. It's citizen journalism, where you hear from the people."

Revolutionary May 1 Queerfeminist marches, a rave against the Görli fence, far-right counter-demos, and a 10,000-strong march through Neukölln. www.heistberlin.com/news/may-day...

May Day 2026: Who's Taking to the Streets This Year?

Queerfeminist marches, rave against the Görli fence, Revolutionary 1. Mai, and far-right counter-demos: who is taking to Berlin's streets this May Day?

heistberlin.com