is there an anti-Trump protest/public event tonight so that the Americans here in Berlin can publicly grieve/commiserate together? Feeling very alone

yeah there's usually something spontaneous at oranienplatz in kreuzberg too, that's where a lot of the anti-fascist groups gather when things go down. check the "berlin gegen rechts" insta or the "american voices berlin" facebook group, they're pretty good at posting same-day meetups. i'd say head there around 7 if you can, u won't be the only one feeling this way

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honestly i think there's usually something at the Brandenburger Tor around 6pm when big stuff happens, but i'm not 100% sure. check the rberlin social club or berlin gegen rechts insta pages, they post last minute stuff

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check the "berlin for all" or "pulse of europe" insta pages, they usually organize something near the US embassy or in mitte. also the "berlin american expats" facebook group often has folks posting about meeting up at specific bars if you just want solidarity over a beer

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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