Frances D’Emilio

Italy's Ladins take visibility into their own hands facing minimal exposure in Olympic celebrations Members of Italy’s Ladin minority, which settled a millennium ago in the Dolomite mountain hamlet that's now an Olympic host city, are disappointed the Winter Games will not spotlight their culture.

Italy's Ladins take visibility into their own hands facing minimal exposure in Olympic celebrations

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Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong in the US Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.

Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong in the US

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Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison Italy's parliament on Tuesday approved a law that punishes femicide with life in prison. The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women.

Italy recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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Fighting Femicide in Italy Two years after a college student's slaying horrified the nation, the toll of women murdered by men keeps mounting. To uproot patriarchal mindsets, new strategies involve workplaces and schools.

Nov. 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Here's my piece on my Half Roman Substack:
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Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county Terri Lesley, a former library director, said she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to bow to county officials’ demands for censorship.

A Wyoming librarian who fought to keep embattled books on a local public library's shelves agreed to settle her federal lawsuit against Campbell County, the county’s library board and several officials for $700,000.

Italy's Long, Long Summers Eventually they end. But summer can make a comeback in "ottobrata," although with climate change, past patterns might not hold.

Might climate change spell the end of Rome's beloved "ottobrata" summer "comeback? Next weeks will tell. francesdemilio.substack.com/p/italys-lon...

PBS, NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled government funding cuts A month after Congress voted to strip public media of public money, PBS and NPR stations are working to cope — and survive.

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Wordless in Italy The Italian language, in all its richness, sometimes lacks the right word.

Ever search for the right word -- in another language? or be betrayed by "false friends" when speaking a new tongue? francesdemilio.substack.com/p/wordless-i...

Frances D'Emilio on Itch.world Limp celery? Mon Dieu! Crisp, crunch celery stars in my last Half Roman Substack post. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, cook what's in season and savor the flavor of it all. Take a bite! https://fra...

Do You Really Want to Live in Italy?
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That 'tourist' in the forest might be a Russian spy, Latvia warns They might look like lost tourists who are unkempt and overloaded with gear. But Latvia’s intelligence agency said Wednesday that they might be Russian saboteurs and spies.

They might look like lost tourists — unkempt and overloaded with gear — or hikers with military haircuts, survival gear and no clue how to behave in the woods.

But Latvia’s intelligence agency says that they might actually be Russian saboteurs and spies.

The pope who liked to tool around Rome FRANCIS, THE POPE WHO LIKED TO TOOL AROUND ROME, DIES ON THE ETERNAL CITY'S BIRTHDAY

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The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

Trump Administration Moves to Shutter Library Agency The staff of the independent Institute of Museum and Library Services, the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries, were put on leave.

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Half Roman | Frances D'Emilio | Substack Takeaways and tales from a longtime expat’s life in Rome. A New Yorker shares insights gleaned from years in Italy while a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press. Click to read Half Roman, by ...

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Decine di migliaia in Piazza del Popolo a Roma a favore dell'Europa Rispondendo all'appello del giornalista Michele Serra migliaia di persone hanno partecipato alla manifestazione a sostegno dell'Europa e dei suoi valori fondativi. "Diamoci una mossa", ha detto il gio...

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Musk Email Reaches Italian Workers. It Did Not Go Well. Employees at the Aviano Air Base who serve American forces got a familiar demand to list their achievements. Unions say Italy “is not the Wild West like the U.S.”

Reading this makes me think of Francesco De Gregori singing “Viva l’Italia” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/w...

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.

Let that sink in.

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?

But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?

Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

This is a fantastic and essential piece from @janus.bsky.social www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

True.

LA Times owner boosts RFK Jr. online, as writer says paper cut his critique Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has become a fierce champion online for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

LA Times owner says journalism and his paper’s editorial pages have been too partisan.

Last week, Dr. Soon-Shiong tweeted 18 times in a row to boost RFK Jr., even as a writer says the paper altered his op-ed to drop all criticism of the HHS nominee.

My NPR story:
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Are your eyes open yet?

Italy’s Meloni to leverage strong ties with Trump — but as president whisperer or Trojan horse? After forging unexpectedly fond ties with President Biden, Italy’s right-wing Premier Giorgia Meloni is poised to leverage a more natural alliance with incoming President Trump that positions her as a...

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India’s Fact-Checkers React to Meta’s Policy Change When Mark Zuckerberg suddenly abandoned his company’s third-party fact-checking program, I checked in with my old colleagues—who are reeling from the news.

India’s Fact-Checkers React to Meta’s Policy Change:
'When Mark Zuckerberg suddenly abandoned his company’s third-party fact-checking program, I checked in with my old colleagues—who are reeling from the news,' by Meghnad Bose. www.cjr.org/world/indias...

The urge to escape I understand wanting to defect from the US in the wake of the election. But may I offer a few words of caution?

The urge to escape
From November but ever pertinent for many as inauguration date looms nearer. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Judge Strikes Down Portions of Arkansas Law That Threatened Librarians Republicans passed the law in 2023, joining other conservative states and counties that have sought to restrict the availability of certain books.

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Maybe people will pay more attention to climate change when they realise that it could impact their wine!

Another great article by @louiseschiavone.bsky.social