Nicholas Whithorn
@nickwhithorn.bsky.social
Legal Translator and University Lecturer based in Messina. Sicily, mafia, Italian justice system.
Mafia Chronicles: nicholaswhithorn.substack.com
Mafia Chronicles: nicholaswhithorn.substack.com
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Salvini says Italian government working on new immigration laws. Current ones, detention centres in Albania & impounding NGO vessels, have totally failed. Their only "success" is paying Libyan militias to torture migrants & funding the Tunisian régime to kidnap them & dump them in the desert to die.
Da Bari il governo si ricompatta sugli immigrati: «Presto un nuovo decreto sicurezza»
La presidente Meloni, Salvini e altri membri del governo erano in Puglia per sostenere la candidatura di Luigi Lobuono a presidente della Regione. E dal palco la premier ha parlato anche della riform...
www.lasicilia.it
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Salvini says Italian government working on new immigration laws. Current ones, detention centres in Albania & impounding NGO vessels, have totally failed. Their only "success" is paying Libyan militias to torture migrants & funding the Tunisian régime to kidnap them & dump them in the desert to die.
Salvini says Italian government working on new immigration laws. Current ones, detention centres in Albania & impounding NGO vessels, have totally failed. Their only "success" is paying Libyan militias to torture migrants & funding the Tunisian régime to kidnap them & dump them in the desert to die.
Da Bari il governo si ricompatta sugli immigrati: «Presto un nuovo decreto sicurezza»
La presidente Meloni, Salvini e altri membri del governo erano in Puglia per sostenere la candidatura di Luigi Lobuono a presidente della Regione. E dal palco la premier ha parlato anche della riform...
www.lasicilia.it
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Salvini says Italian government working on new immigration laws. Current ones, detention centres in Albania & impounding NGO vessels, have totally failed. Their only "success" is paying Libyan militias to torture migrants & funding the Tunisian régime to kidnap them & dump them in the desert to die.
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Only in Sicily. The guy accused of using his official car and driver to deliver kebabs and cocaine hits out at the guy accused of fixing public health service contracts.
Miccichè contro la Dc, Cirillo replica: «Chi è senza peccato scagli la prima pietra»
Botta e risposta tra Gianfranco Miccichè e la Democrazia cristiana. Dopo le dichiarazioni del fondatore di Grande Sicilia — che aveva ipotizzato l’uscita dal...
palermo.gds.it
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Only in Sicily. The guy accused of using his official car and driver to deliver kebabs and cocaine hits out at the guy accused of fixing public health service contracts.
Only in Sicily. The guy accused of using his official car and driver to deliver kebabs and cocaine hits out at the guy accused of fixing public health service contracts.
Miccichè contro la Dc, Cirillo replica: «Chi è senza peccato scagli la prima pietra»
Botta e risposta tra Gianfranco Miccichè e la Democrazia cristiana. Dopo le dichiarazioni del fondatore di Grande Sicilia — che aveva ipotizzato l’uscita dal...
palermo.gds.it
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Only in Sicily. The guy accused of using his official car and driver to deliver kebabs and cocaine hits out at the guy accused of fixing public health service contracts.
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"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
In the MAGA mindset the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the sick, the disabled are seen as losers, unworthy of help, and should be left to sink or swim on their own.
We’ve gotten to the how dare they try to feed the hungry state of the government shutdown.
Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In the MAGA mindset the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the sick, the disabled are seen as losers, unworthy of help, and should be left to sink or swim on their own.
La sanità in Sicilia: frode e corruzione dilagano, vedi il nuovo scandalo che coinvolge Totò Cuffaro, mentre i pazienti soffrono. Una interrcettazione dell'indagine rivela che le sale operatorie all'ospedale Papardo di Messina, dove ci sono state diverse morti sospette, non venivano mai pulite.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
La sanità in Sicilia: frode e corruzione dilagano, vedi il nuovo scandalo che coinvolge Totò Cuffaro, mentre i pazienti soffrono. Una interrcettazione dell'indagine rivela che le sale operatorie all'ospedale Papardo di Messina, dove ci sono state diverse morti sospette, non venivano mai pulite.
Healthcare in Sicily: fraud & corruption rampant, as new scandal involving Totò Cuffaro shows, while patients suffer consequences. Tapped conversation in current investigation reveals operating theatres at a hospital in Messina, where there have been numerous suspicious deaths, were never cleaned.
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Healthcare in Sicily: fraud & corruption rampant, as new scandal involving Totò Cuffaro shows, while patients suffer consequences. Tapped conversation in current investigation reveals operating theatres at a hospital in Messina, where there have been numerous suspicious deaths, were never cleaned.
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As the Totò Cuffaro corruption scandal unfolds, the centre-right parties who welcomed him into the Sicilian government, despite a conviction for mafia stay mute. Silence from Fratelli d'Italia, silence from Forza Italia, above all silence from Lega, who had just formed an electoral pact with him.
Scandalo tangenti in Sicilia, venerdì Cuffaro davanti al giudice che deve decidere se arrestarlo
L'ex presidente è accusato di associazione per delinquere, corruzione e turbativa d'asta. A Palazzo d'Orleans voci di possibile azzeramento della Giunta
www.lasicilia.it
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
As the Totò Cuffaro corruption scandal unfolds, the centre-right parties who welcomed him into the Sicilian government, despite a conviction for mafia stay mute. Silence from Fratelli d'Italia, silence from Forza Italia, above all silence from Lega, who had just formed an electoral pact with him.
As the Totò Cuffaro corruption scandal unfolds, the centre-right parties who welcomed him into the Sicilian government, despite a conviction for mafia stay mute. Silence from Fratelli d'Italia, silence from Forza Italia, above all silence from Lega, who had just formed an electoral pact with him.
Scandalo tangenti in Sicilia, venerdì Cuffaro davanti al giudice che deve decidere se arrestarlo
L'ex presidente è accusato di associazione per delinquere, corruzione e turbativa d'asta. A Palazzo d'Orleans voci di possibile azzeramento della Giunta
www.lasicilia.it
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
As the Totò Cuffaro corruption scandal unfolds, the centre-right parties who welcomed him into the Sicilian government, despite a conviction for mafia stay mute. Silence from Fratelli d'Italia, silence from Forza Italia, above all silence from Lega, who had just formed an electoral pact with him.
Reposted by Nicholas Whithorn
The smallest school in Europe, on the Aeolian island of Alicudi, has reopened thanks to the enrollment of two students, both children of Moroccan parents. Immigration helps save depopulated communities in Europe.
Alicudi, riapre la scuola con due bimbi: è la più piccola d’Europa
Nel cuore delle isole Eolie, sulla piccola isola di Alicudi, è tornata a “vivere” la scuola più piccola d’Europa. Qui, tra scalinate di pietra e case, in...
messina.gazzettadelsud.it
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The smallest school in Europe, on the Aeolian island of Alicudi, has reopened thanks to the enrollment of two students, both children of Moroccan parents. Immigration helps save depopulated communities in Europe.
Burgers and air travel, foundations of US society, in crisis mode.
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Burgers and air travel, foundations of US society, in crisis mode.
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Orban's effects will wear off the moment Macron, Merz, Starmer and Meloni call Trump.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Orban's effects will wear off the moment Macron, Merz, Starmer and Meloni call Trump.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
The smallest school in Europe, on the Aeolian island of Alicudi, has reopened thanks to the enrollment of two students, both children of Moroccan parents. Immigration helps save depopulated communities in Europe.
Alicudi, riapre la scuola con due bimbi: è la più piccola d’Europa
Nel cuore delle isole Eolie, sulla piccola isola di Alicudi, è tornata a “vivere” la scuola più piccola d’Europa. Qui, tra scalinate di pietra e case, in...
messina.gazzettadelsud.it
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The smallest school in Europe, on the Aeolian island of Alicudi, has reopened thanks to the enrollment of two students, both children of Moroccan parents. Immigration helps save depopulated communities in Europe.
Sleepy Joe Biden. Comatose Donald Trump.
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Sleepy Joe Biden. Comatose Donald Trump.
"Well, we're all going to die, except me of course."
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Well, we're all going to die, except me of course."
How appropriate that a Sicilian politician's shady dealings should come to light because he talks too much.
Spunta un'altra talpa nell'indagine sugli appalti truccati: è un ex poliziotto. Diceva a Cuffaro: «Parli troppo al telefono»
Nella richiesta di arresto dell'ex presidente della Regione incluso il nome di Filippo Paradiso, che si aggiunge a quello del colonnello dei carabinieri Stefano Palminteri
palermo.gds.it
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
How appropriate that a Sicilian politician's shady dealings should come to light because he talks too much.
85% of the resources allocated by Meloni's government for income tax cuts for the middle class will go to the top 20% of earners. No surprise there.
Taglio Irpef: 11 milioni di famiglie coinvolte, ma il grosso dei vantaggi va ai redditi alti
Il taglio dell’Irpef previsto in manovra «coinvolgerebbe poco più di 14 milioni di contribuenti, con un beneficio annuo pari in media a circa 230 euro. Le famiglie...
gazzettadelsud.it
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
85% of the resources allocated by Meloni's government for income tax cuts for the middle class will go to the top 20% of earners. No surprise there.
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Tough few days for Salvini. Messina Strait bridge project is blocked due to mismanagement of the dossier, so Meloni takes over personal control of it, the policy of impounding NGO ships rescuing migrants is overturned in court and his new political ally in Sicily is accused of fraud & corruption.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Tough few days for Salvini. Messina Strait bridge project is blocked due to mismanagement of the dossier, so Meloni takes over personal control of it, the policy of impounding NGO ships rescuing migrants is overturned in court and his new political ally in Sicily is accused of fraud & corruption.
Tough few days for Salvini. Messina Strait bridge project is blocked due to mismanagement of the dossier, so Meloni takes over personal control of it, the policy of impounding NGO ships rescuing migrants is overturned in court and his new political ally in Sicily is accused of fraud & corruption.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Tough few days for Salvini. Messina Strait bridge project is blocked due to mismanagement of the dossier, so Meloni takes over personal control of it, the policy of impounding NGO ships rescuing migrants is overturned in court and his new political ally in Sicily is accused of fraud & corruption.
Meloni has removed the Messina Strait bridge dossier from Transport and Infrastructure Minister Salvini following the block placed on the project by the Italian Court of Auditors.
Il dossier Ponte dello Stretto dal ministero di Salvini a Palazzo Chigi, fioccano le critiche
Pd, Avs e Cinquestelle intervengono sul "commissariamento" del dicastero alle Infrastrutture
www.messinatoday.it
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Meloni has removed the Messina Strait bridge dossier from Transport and Infrastructure Minister Salvini following the block placed on the project by the Italian Court of Auditors.
"If they won't vote for us, don't let them vote."
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"If they won't vote for us, don't let them vote."
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The first thing to know about the Meloni government's reform of the justice system is that it isn't a reform. "Reform" gives the idea of substantial changes to the overall system. Meloni's "reform" changes just one specific niche aspect, albeit significant, of the system.
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The first thing to know about the Meloni government's reform of the justice system is that it isn't a reform. "Reform" gives the idea of substantial changes to the overall system. Meloni's "reform" changes just one specific niche aspect, albeit significant, of the system.
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Judges request house arrest for former Governor of Sicily Totò Cuffaro & 17 others on suspicion of conspiracy to commit procurement fraud & corruption. After serving 7 years for aiding & abetting mafiosi, Cuffaro relaunched his political career & recently formed an alliance with Salvini's Lega.
Appalti truccati, chiesto l'arresto per Totò Cuffaro. Tra gli indagati anche Saverio Romano TUTTI I NOMI
La Procura di Palermo ha chiesto gli arresti domiciliari per 18 persone accusate a vario titolo di associazione a delinquere, turbativa d’asta e corruzione
palermo.gds.it
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Judges request house arrest for former Governor of Sicily Totò Cuffaro & 17 others on suspicion of conspiracy to commit procurement fraud & corruption. After serving 7 years for aiding & abetting mafiosi, Cuffaro relaunched his political career & recently formed an alliance with Salvini's Lega.
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Italian government's immigration policy in tatters. After failure of Albanian detention centres, impounding of NGO vessels now in question.
Catanzaro Court of Appeal rules NGO ship illegally impounded for disobeying Libyan Coast Guard, which cannot be considered a legitimate rescue organization.
Catanzaro Court of Appeal rules NGO ship illegally impounded for disobeying Libyan Coast Guard, which cannot be considered a legitimate rescue organization.
La guardia costiera libica non è soggetto legittimo per i soccorsi in mare: vittoria definitiva per la Humanity I
La Humanity 1 ha agito in conformità con il diritto internazionale. I ministeri non fanno ricorso e la sentenza diventa definitiva. La ong ora chiede un risarcimento alle autorità italiane per il ferm...
www.editorialedomani.it
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Italian government's immigration policy in tatters. After failure of Albanian detention centres, impounding of NGO vessels now in question.
Catanzaro Court of Appeal rules NGO ship illegally impounded for disobeying Libyan Coast Guard, which cannot be considered a legitimate rescue organization.
Catanzaro Court of Appeal rules NGO ship illegally impounded for disobeying Libyan Coast Guard, which cannot be considered a legitimate rescue organization.