pretty incredible, and she still finished just three minutes off the world record Berlin (AFP)—Berlin Marathon winner Tigst Assefa has undergone surgery in Munich on Monday after finishing Sunday's race with a torn Achilles, her manager confirmed.

seriously thinking of giving up this racket to go to clown school

Tag 2 nach der Wahl. Berlin ist nicht wiederzuerkennen. Über Dahlem liegt das dumpfe Schluchzen der Eigentümer. Im Westen stauen sich SUVs mit hastig verladenem kulturellem Kapital. Erste Augenzeugen berichten von bezahlbarem Wohnraum. Wie konnte man es nur so weit kommen lassen? Ein Lagebericht.

A far right govt led by a party that is openly calling for the deportation of 1/4 of the population of Germany is taking power in Sachsen-Anhalt, but the threat of the twinned cultural others of the Bundesrepublik - red Ossis and Muslim migrants - is much more existentially unsettling.

Eureka Day 2: Northhampton Boogaloo www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m...

A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe

Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.

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Heute vor 87 Jahren besiegelten Nazideutschland und die Sowjetunion mit einer gemeinsamen Siegesparade in Brest-Litowsk die Teilung Polens, nachdem beide Mächte mit ihren Angriffen auf Polen den Zweiten Weltkrieg begonnen hatten.

"There’s one woman out there, but would a Nobel Prize committee member pair a pizza with a latté?"... – fantastic in-situ reportage here from formidable Nobel-channeller Mathilde!

Mathilde Montpetit@mathildegm.bsky.social · 2w ago

As anyone who knows me is tired of hearing, I am very good at guessing who will win the Nobel prize. This year, though, I needed a bit of inspiration, and I wrote about it for The Auflauf's new SCENE series:

As anyone who knows me is tired of hearing, I am very good at guessing who will win the Nobel prize. This year, though, I needed a bit of inspiration, and I wrote about it for The Auflauf's new SCENE series:

SCENE: Mathilde Montpetit, in search of a Nobel pick, goes to Laidak

Anarchists, Ladbrokes, showtunes, and a little bit of literature

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is local expat magazine so completely checked out that they can't bother to cover a crucially important local election, instead waiting 12+ hours to slap together what appears to be a mishmash of AI-translated bits lifted w/o credit from the german press? www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

Berlin Election: Die Linke Are Clear Winners - The Berliner

At 74.2%, the voter turnout was 11.3% higher than in the previous election. Die Linke win the majority vote in Berlin state election

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Ambivalent mood among the Social Democrats in Schwerin over Mecklenburg-Vorpomern result. SPD's Manuela Schwesig waged a remarked comeback campaign, but crowd clearly disappointed not to have caught the far-right AfD (at least in early projections).

Berlin/Schwerin (AFP)—Germans began voting Sunday in two state elections where far-right and far-left gains could send fresh shock waves through Berlin and rock the government of embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz. www.afp.com/en/germans-v...

Germans vote in elections threatening fresh blow to Merz

Germans began voting Sunday in two state elections where far-right and far-left gains could send fresh shock waves through Berlin and rock the government...

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Election day here in Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpomern)

Berlin people involved in writing, reading, living, laughing, and/or loving: Tomorrow we celebrate six months of our new online literature magazine. It's free and there'll be readings plus some chats. Come along and say g'tag!!! www.lettretage.de/programm/6-m...

TOMORROW www.lettretage.de/programm/6-m...

Tobias Ryan@tobiasvryan.bsky.social · last mo.

will be reading at The Auflauf 6 Month celebration September 19, 7pm Lettrétage, Berlin

people on this website often complain (correctly) about the death of journalism. here's an easy way to help its rebirth: by supporting independent media in Berlin.

heistberlin.bsky.social@heistberlin.bsky.social · 2w ago

🆘 We need your help! Today, HEIST launches a 14-day campaign that could decide our future → At 200 subs, we cover our costs for a month → At 500, we raise writer fees – and for the first time, pay ourselves. Subscribe to keep worker-owned journalism alive in Berlin. www.heistberlin.com/sign-up/

Our September books bring together the distant and the familiar: Celina Baljeet Basra on migrant Berlin, @brynstole.bsky.social on minimalism and the fantastic, Michaela Anchan on the long life of the peatlands:

September Books: BABEL, Kracht, Armstrong

A multi-vocal anthology of Berlin fiction, Christian Kracht’s ventures to another realm, and Sheila Armstrong finds a bog body

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... what about ten?

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2mo 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.

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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...

yahoo.com

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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