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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2h

In 2024 left-wing grouping AVS put her up as candidate in Italy for European Parliament elections & she was elected. This gave her immunity & she was released by Hungarian authorities. Orbán's government requested European Parliament to remove her immunity but it was rejected by a margin of 1 vote

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2h

There are conflicting (obviously) versions of what did or didn't happen & anyway the case hardly started in court. Orbán & his government describe her as a "member of a terrorist group", so it's difficult to see how she'd get a fair trial in Hungary, where the judiciary are heavily conditioned >>

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2h

She's a left-wing activist arrested in Budapest in February 2023, accused (with others) of attacking a group of neo-Nazis. The case got publicity in Italy in December 2023, when she was brought into court in Hungary in chains & complained of inhuman treatment in prison >>

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18h

The rule of law is not respected in Hungary.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18h

Not the same reasoning as Berlusconi. Orbán's Hungary is nothing like Italy. I would not send anybody, left-wing or right-wing, to be tried in Hungary under the present régime.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18h

No way she was going to get a fair trial in Hungary. Orbán described her as a "member of a terrorist group" and the judiciary is beholden to him.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 19h

The European Parliament vote to maintain the immunity of Italian MEP Ilaria Salis by a margin of 1 vote has infuriated Salvini and Orbán, so some good news today at least.

Con un finale al cardiopalma la Plenaria di Strasburgo ha salvato Ilaria Salis: sì all'immunità

Sui franchi tiratori è scontro Salvini-Tajani. L'ira di Orban

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 1d

The squalor of Italy's centre-right as the two Deputy PMs, Salvini (Lega) & Tajani (Forza Italia) argue over whose fault it is that Italian MEP Ilaria Salis kept her immunity by one vote in the European Parliament and thus avoided being hauled in chains before a kangaroo court in Orbán's Hungary.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 1d

The squalor of Italy's centre-right as the two Deputy PMs, Salvini (Lega) & Tajani (Forza Italia) argue over whose fault it is that Italian MEP Ilaria Salis kept her immunity by one vote in the European Parliament and thus avoided being hauled in chains before a kangaroo court in Orbán's Hungary.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservative Party suddenly converts to PR.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party conference fringe that the Lib Dems “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next GE.

“The LD vote is now more geographically concentrated than your vote.”

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2d

Salvini's Lega completes its political metamorphosis by forming an electoral pact with Totò Cuffaro's "Nuova Democrazia Cristiana" in Sicily.
Cuffaro, former Governor of Sicily, served a 7-year prison sentence for aiding and abetting mafiosi.

Patto per la Sicilia tra Cuffaro e Salvini: alleati alle Politiche e liste diverse (ma “gemellate”) per l’Ars

L'accordo chiuso alla Festa dell'Amicizia organizzata dalla Nuova Democrazia Cristiana a Ribera

www.lasicilia.it

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's an accident like all those accidents in Russia where people fall out of windows.

Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

"What I'd heard so far was that they think it was likelier an accident, but that's not official yet," Stephen Miller tells me at the White House when asked if he has heard a cause of the fire at South Carolina judge's Diane Goodstein's home.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2d

Salvini sta con Cuffaro.
Vi rendete conto?
Salvini sta con Cuffaro.
Dovrebbe essere la fine della carriera politica di Salvini.

Patto per la Sicilia tra Cuffaro e Salvini: alleati alle Politiche e liste diverse (ma “gemellate”) per l’Ars

L'accordo chiuso alla Festa dell'Amicizia organizzata dalla Nuova Democrazia Cristiana a Ribera

www.lasicilia.it

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2d

Salvini's Lega completes its political metamorphosis by forming an electoral pact with Totò Cuffaro's "Nuova Democrazia Cristiana" in Sicily.
Cuffaro, former Governor of Sicily, served a 7-year prison sentence for aiding and abetting mafiosi.

Patto per la Sicilia tra Cuffaro e Salvini: alleati alle Politiche e liste diverse (ma “gemellate”) per l’Ars

L'accordo chiuso alla Festa dell'Amicizia organizzata dalla Nuova Democrazia Cristiana a Ribera

www.lasicilia.it

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 3d

It is a sign of where we are that I saw a video of a devastated apartment on here today while scrolling and, for the first few seconds, thought I was seeing one of those raided by ICE in Chicago until it became clear that it was one hit by a Russian drone in Ukraine.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 4d

Thread on the failed candidates at the auditions in the so far unsuccessful search for a co-star to act alongside Meloni in the Italian remake of "Gone with the Wind" >>