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A newsletter about life, politics and Berliners for the 24% of Berliners w/o a German passport. We'll update the name when the old domain expires.
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People who say the Germans have no sense of humor have never tried to connect to WiFi in a regional or ICE train.
👮 Police violence (again or still?)
😥 Homelessness up
⚙️ TikTok firing moderators because: AI

The 20 Percent for July 29!
#410: Police violence, homelessness up, Tik Tok strike
Jail for jam thief?
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Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz are the reasons.
🤷 Need a job? The S45, S46, S47, S8, S85 and S9 are not running in southeastern Berlin again Sunday because ... S-Bahn Berlin has no one to operate a switching yard. S-Bahn stations between Treptower Park and Schöneweide will be affected until 6pm Sunday.
S-Bahn-Linien im Berliner Südosten unterbrochen - Störungen auch am Sonntag
Weil ein Stellwerk der S-Bahn in Schöneweide nicht besetzt werden konnte, mussten am Samstag sechs Linien unterbrochen werden. Ab 20 Uhr soll der Zugverkehr wieder anlaufen - aber nur bis Sonntagmorge...
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What!? ROGACKI, a West Berlin institution and popular Butcher/Fishmonger/Restaurant/snack bar, on Wilmersdorfer Straße is bankrupt and the entire staff has already been let go. It is no more (and hundreds of thousands of animals are breathing a sigh of relief).
Feinkostladen Rogacki in Berlin-Charlottenburg muss offenbar schließen
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Ok it's not Berlin but you probably need to know: Cops in Bavaria were forced to shoot a catfish this weekend because it kept biting swimmers:
German playgrounds! AMIRITE?
🧑‍⚖️ Poisonous caterpillars
🧑‍⚖️ Suspect in Nazi attack
🧑‍⚖️ Super cops

The 20 Percent for June 20!
#399: Poisonous caterpillars, Nazi douchebaggery, Copper Claudia
Plus an adventure at the Lost and Found
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Anybody been on the High Swing?
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That is literally the argument they're having. 🤦
Mayor Kai Wegner's (CDU) trademark project is simplifying bureaucracy in Berlin. And how? By creating a committee to decide whether boroughs or the city-state is responsible for performing certain tasks.

Fighingt bureaucracy with bureaucracy. 🤦🏽‍♀️
Kompromiss zur Einigungsstelle deutet sich an: Berliner Verwaltungsreform soll vor der Sommerpause kommen
Auf dem Weg hin zu einer Reform der Berliner Verwaltung sind nur noch wenige Punkte strittig. Ein Konflikt steht kurz vor der Lösung.
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Neue Nationalgalerie's security provider denied a guard racially discriminated against a Black visitor from Brazil last Saturday.

But Neue Nationalgalerie says it wants its guards and cashiers to attend sensitivity training anyway.

Contradictory?

From @taz.de
Rassismusvorwurf im Museum: Wie bei einem Spießrutenlauf
Ein Schwarzer Besucher der Neuen Nationalgalerie wird von Wachmann unfreundlich behandelt. Die Sicherheitsfirma spricht von einem Missverständnis.
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Republicans criticizing Germany for surveilling the AfD.

Also the Republicans:
What used to be a battleground on April 30 is now just an open air club: Cops said Walpurgisnacht in Mauerpark was chill with fire dancers and techno.

And only one arrest was made during the Take Back the Night demo in Xberg-Fhain.
Walpurgisnacht und 1. Mai: Berlin tanzt friedlich in den Mai – Polizei zieht erste Bilanz
Der Tag der Arbeit ist in Berlin immer ein Tag der politischen Demonstrationen. Zugleich zieht es viele Menschen zum Feiern ins Freie. Wir begleiten Protest und Party im Liveblog.
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