JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊

Founder, @PinoyBuilt
Filipino-American cultural commentary & political analysis
1.5-gen Fil-Am · Marikina → Chicago → Vallejo
📷 Sony a7 · Building independent

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

A40-year-old Filipino American from California was among 19 people killed in a 12-hour firefight in Negros Occidental on April 19, 2026. The Armed Forces of the Philippines calls it a lawful encounter. BAYAN USA and rights groups call it a massacre. https://t.co/Scmmrlppc1

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

Negros 19: A Filipino American from California was among the dead. | PinoyBuilt https://t.co/KjlVyMxR5v via @pinoybuilt

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

One phrase. 464 million Spotify streams. A master class in #Tagalog vocabulary, #Filipino values, and why the language of your lolo sounds like this. #LearnFilipino

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

“Isa lang.” 🇵🇭

More than a lyric—it’s the Filipino language of devotion.

New on @PinoyBuilt: https://t.co/5n56Yhrk4m

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

On April 21, 900 CE, 1,126 years ago today, a scribe inscribed Old Malay, Sanskrit, & Old Tagalog onto a sheet of copper in the Kingdom of Tondo. What he created is proof that Filipino civilization was literate, legally sophisticated, & globally connected way before Magellan.

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

The Philippines' Oldest Written Record: The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (900 CE) | PinoyBuilt https://t.co/lUlxY4HaBE via @pinoybuilt

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

An American president attacks an American pope.

Filipino-American Catholics are caught in between. 🇵🇭

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/6Yv8P7ntml Between Two Fathers: The Trump–Pope Leo XIV Clash and the Filipino American Soul #filam #filipino

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

84 years ago, they held the line for 99 days. Then came the Death March. Then came the Rescission Act of 1946. This #ArawNgKagitingan, we’re telling the full story—the valor and the debt that was never fully repaid. 🇵🇭🇺🇸

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/Ek8NbiMIOH Kagitingan: 84 Years After Bataan, the Valor Was Never Repaid #filam #pinoybuilt

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/FgPy1EmGi4 No Kings III, Iran-OFW Crisis & the Bonta Defense: PinoyBuilt USA Briefing — March 29, 2026 #filam #pinoybuilt

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/52PNdq6fRP Your Fil-Am Weekend Guide: Where the Bayanihan Spirit Is Alive, March 27–29, 2026 #filam #pinoybuilt

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/WSn0h39Pgx Makibaka, Magkaisa: Fil-Am LAKAS Alliance Leads No Kings Saturday at Historic Filipinotown #filam #pinoybuilt

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

The first major animated film rooted in Philippine folklore asks the question every immigrant carries: What do you lose when you leave? A PinoyBuilt analysis of the most important Filipino cultural moment in animation history.

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/BkMBKygQ92 The Memory Heist: How DreamWorks' 'Forgotten Island' Turns Filipino Mythology Into a Diaspora Reckoning #filam #pinoybuilt

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/1RLOvsizA9 Know Your Rights: An Immigration Attorney's Message to the Filipino Community #filam #pinoybuilt

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/ACnQgOF0m7 PinoyBuilt Daily Briefing, March 24, 2026: Marcos Declares Energy Emergency as Iran War Squeezes OFWs, Oil Supply, and the Global Filipino Economy #filam #pinoybuilt

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

Hiraya Manawari, kaibigan.

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/uX33yENRUq Hiraya Manawari: The Ancient Filipino Phrase That Became a Generation's Battle Cry #filam #pinoybuilt

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

Thank you for all your work Atty. Clarence Mamaril! Maraming salamat kaibigan!

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/1RLOvsizA9 Know Your Rights: An Immigration Attorney's Message to the Filipino Community #filam #pinoybuilt

[Rafa Nadal Academy @rnadalacademy]

Amazing battles you’ve given us these past days on the @MiamiOpen courts 🎾🔥

Always proud of you @alexeala05 !

Let’s keep going, we’ll be cheering all the way 💛💪

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/6kjhHVzjPi Stop Copy-Pasting Facebook Hoaxes — Build a Real Digital Tambayan Instead #filam #pinoybuilt

[JF 🇵🇭🇺🇸🌊 @JFPerseveranda]

Tough match. Get em on clay, Alex Eala! 👊🏽🇵🇭

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/CFrpAeZHyE The Growing Pains of Greatness: Alex Eala's 60-Minute Masterclass in Resilience at the Miami Open #filam #pinoybuilt

[Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @PinoyBuilt]

https://t.co/8o0q6PFEdg Learn Filipino: How Cup of Joe's Record-Shattering 'MULTO' Teaches Us Pagharap — The Courage to Face What Haunts Us #filam #pinoybuilt