Mark Pere Madrona

Writer, educator, and owner of The Filipino Scribe / Writes about news, politics, & history / He, him, his / SLK's / All views here are mine

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

What's the point, dude?

Japan even has a law mandating that when national holiday falls on a Sunday, the next working day shall become a holiday too. And they have a better economy than us. :)

[Johnny Tamad™️ @johnnytamad]

Walang nakakapansin hindi ba sobrang dami ng holiday sa Pinas? Para sa isang mahirap na bansa tama ba to?

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

Rooting for the New York Knicks to win their first championship since 1973!

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

series 1-0.

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

Justin Brownlee for the win again!!!!!

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

PLAN YOUR TRANSACTIONS AHEAD!

All BPI channels and services will be unavailable on Saturday, June 6, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the final batch of system integration activities with Robinsons Bank.

Affected services include BPI and Robinsons Bank ATMs, online banking and app, debit cards, and fund transfers to other banks via Instapay and PESONet. Branches of the two banks that operate on Saturdays will also be closed on the said date.

Robinsons Bank's merger with BPI took effect in 2024.

(Courtesy: BPI)

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

Nagpadala na ng imbitasyon ang Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, na pinamumunuan ni Senador Pia Cayetano, kina dating House Speaker Martin Romualdez at 18 nagpakilalang “ex-Marines” para sa pagpapatuloy ng imbestigasyon sa mga anomalya sa flood control projects.

Basahin: https://t.co/XScfxKYdGs

[shimie 𓆩♡𓆪🌊 @beibiniriver]

HAHHAHAHAHAHA BAKIT APAKA INOSENTE AT KYUT NI EMILIO TAWANG TAWA TULOY SI RIVER PATI PROD 😭

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I've always loved this video of Kamala Harris directing the Los Angeles County Clerk to begin issuing marriage licenses immediately after the same-sex marriage ban was overturned.

“You must start the marriages immediately.”

Happy Pride! 🌈

[Harina Pedorovtseva @centie_hanashie]

dinakot! 😫

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

Sent to jail not twice, but thrice!!!

[risa hontiveros @risahontiveros]

Was appointed to PhilHealth in 2014-15.Bonus in question was in 2013.Would have been impossible feat,unless I know how to time travel.Hehe 😊

[Chloe 🍃 ✨|| Art Main @chloesenzai]

🫶 This!

For PH people, there's an NGO called SIKAP - Creative Content Creator of the Philippines Inc. and they offer road shows to familiarize yourself w/ copyright law and on how to protect your own IP.

(a former ACPI director informed me about it)

[Philstar.com @PhilstarNews]

SKY OF WONDERS

Residents of Quezon City looked up to a rare sight Sunday, May 31, as a faint solar halo formed around the sun.

The optical phenomenon occurs when sunlight passes through ice crystals suspended in thin cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere, creating a luminous ring around the sun. While often mistaken for a sign of changing weather, solar halos are a natural atmospheric display that can appear anywhere under the right conditions.

📸 The STAR/Miguel de Guzman

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

"He is gentle. He respects boundaries. He posts blurry photos of a sleepy black cat curled up on his chest. And increasingly, the internet finds him irresistible. But does owning a cat actually signal emotional maturity and caregiving instincts?"
https://t.co/Jlk7pQKqJg

[GMA News @gmanews]

Vice President Sara Duterte’s net satisfaction rating increased marginally in March 2026 amid the impeachment proceedings against her in the House of Representatives, according to a new survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

The SWS survey was conducted from March 24 to 31, 2026, coinciding with the start of the formal hearings on the impeachment complaints before the House Committee on Justice.

Read more:
https://t.co/va2xeXHjJx

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

Rooting for the San Antonio Spurs to defeat the Oklahoma City Floppers this Game 7!

Game starts in 20 minutes!

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

Grabe talaga. I lose more than a month's worth of my salary to income tax every year, not to mention the value added tax (VAT) imposed on everything.

That needs to change, especially since we are not getting meaningufl wage hikes anyway.
https://t.co/F3XehhXMvb

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

not acceptable!

[ian, rmt @mikhalimphocyte]

Ms. Kris has something to say

[Lana the Bug 🪲💕 @lanabeesfw]

The MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) has a microphone at the bottom of the trench in Monterey Bay where they find stuff like this and you can listen to it live 24/7 and you can usually hear tons of whales but also you can hear Other Things

[Mark Pere Madrona @FilipinoScribe]

Grabe talaga. I lose more than a month's worth of my salary to income tax every year, not to mention the value added tax (VAT) imposed on everything.

That needs to change, especially since we are not getting meaningufl wage hikes anyway.
https://t.co/F3XehhXMvb