Danny Padilla

X liebe dich

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

The face masks say it all!

[Pinoytapsilog @pinoyanghang]

Hindi ito nakakatawa. Nakakaawa, actually.

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

😂😂😂

[Brian Tycangco 鄭彥渊 @BrianTycangco]

They should come back home. They have a great career ahead of them in government.

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

No!

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

He should join Zaldy Co in Europe! 😂

[Bilyonaryo News Channel @bncdotph]

EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: US cancels Romualdez’s visas

The United States has revoked the diplomatic and tourist visas of Leyte Rep. and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez, who has been facing criminal investigation over his alleged involvement in the multibillion-peso flood control fiasco.

A top Philippine government official familiar with the matter told BNC that Romualdez’s A-1 diplomatic visa and B1/B2 non-immigrant visa were cancelled several weeks ago.

No specific reason was provided for the revocation of his US visas, according to the source. | via Michaela Del Callar, https://t.co/9R0Mcay5im

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

@hi13_k @jesusfalcis Highly urbanized city... 😂

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

This reflects a strong stance against US influence and serves as a major setback for the PH. Deserved!

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THERE WAS DELIGHT at the United Nation yesterday as Kyrgyzstan last night roundly defeated the Washington-controlled Philippines to win the sole Asia-Pacific seat at the UN Security Council.

Kyrgyzstan received 142 votes, while the Philippines received only 49.

The Iranians, sitting in one row ahead, were clearly delighted at the win.

The Central Asian nation now becomes a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2027-2028 term.

Most people in the west have never heard of the country, but the US was concerned about the vote, because Kyrgyzstani people have friendly, peaceful relations with their Chinese and Russian neighbors.

The US spends billions of dollars a year to demonize China and Russia. The UK voted with the US.

There was more bad news for the US-Israel bloc, too. Germany was defeated by Austria and Portugal in the European vote.

After the illegal US-Israel attack on Iran, German leader Friedrich Merz shocked the world by echoing the far-right Israeli view that that international law did not apply to Iranians.

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Manila's Finest, take note 😉

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

South Korean operators from the 707th Special Mission Group came up with a very clever and unique way of entering a city bus.

This is just one example of why they call these guys the "South Korean Delta Force."

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Bravo,TESDA!

https://t.co/7dulHX1kea

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

You will always be the GOAT!

[Novak Djokovic @DjokerNole]

An epic battle, Joao. And a hard-fought victory you deserve. Best of luck for the rest of the tournament and the incredible career you have ahead of you. 

As for Paris… tu as mon coeur 🫶🏼

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

River isn't clean...

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Shrek War

[Ross_co_Jones  @anonimo_jones]

Pago ínternet por estás cosas 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Peyk na peyk 😂

[Pinoytapsilog @pinoyanghang]

'Ñeta, napaka-performative na press release naman nito. Nakakasuka!🤮

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Ugly

[Flying Ketchup @FlyingKetchup]

Francisco is still weighing options if they will bring its upcoming EV SUV to the Philippines. One of his conditions include if they can secure at least 1,000 preorders and if the government will support their endeavor. 😮

#FlyingKetchup

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Bagong Pilipinas: the decay brought to you by the BBM Administration.

[Zerbi @Gerbi_23]

Sabi ni Jonvic Remulla bumaba na ang krimin sa Pilipinas? 🙄 Anyari dito sa NCR Las Pinas mga kabataan walang takot mang magnakaw sa loob ng jeepney habang nasa pasada🤨

ccto 🎥

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Luna

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

Meanwhile, PH government is busy covering up massive corruption scandals, silencing political opponents, and siding with the US while most ASEAN countries choose to get along with China.

But PH is a democracy! 😉

[OK Then @okaythenfuture]

The day was always coming and now it is here,

Vietnam is now the second largest economy in Southeast Asia, taking the spot from Thailand which traditionally has held it since the 1970s.

Thailand will likely never be this close to Vietnam ever again,

Vietnam is probably going to become the last developed country from the Global South.

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

👏👏👏

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Interceptor deployments are scheduled for the Philippines. 🇵🇭

As part of our 30 Cities Program, we will deploy our first Interceptor in the Meycauayan River in the coming months to prevent trash from flowing into the ocean from the Manila Bay Region.

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

No one's ark

[Danny Padilla @LucaToon]

@Matt_Pinner 22

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The Man Who Gave Away Patagonia
Doug Tompkins sold his stake in The North Face for $50,000. 

He used the money to co-found Esprit. Then he sold that too, and did something almost no one does with a fortune: he disappeared.

He moved to the tip of South America in 1990 with a theory most businessmen would find absurd.

He believed the best thing a rich man could do was buy wilderness before someone else destroyed it, then hand it back to the country it belonged to.

Together with his wife Kris, a former CEO of Patagonia clothing, they bought and conserved more than 2 million acres across Chile and Argentina. For context: that is roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Most of it had been degraded farmland. Overgrazed, stripped, exhausted.

The Valle Chacabuco ranch alone had been one of South America’s largest sheep operations. They bought it in 2004 for $10 million, then spent another $55 million over 20 years restoring the grasslands. 

Pumas returned. Guanacos returned. The land remembered what it was.

The Chileans were not immediately grateful. Many locals saw it as a land grab. An American buying millions of acres and telling them to change their way of life. Some accused him of planning to split the country in two. Others claimed he was building a nuclear waste site. He kept buying land anyway.

The deal his wife finalized in his name after his death became the largest-ever private land donation to a country.

Over 1 million acres handed directly to Chile, triggering government protections on another 9 million. Five new national parks. Three expanded. A conservation corridor stretching 1,250 miles.

He died on December 8, 2015, in a kayaking accident on a Patagonian lake, surrounded by friends including Yvon Chouinard. He had called what he was doing “paying rent for his time on the planet.”

There is a certain kind of person who builds something great and then builds something greater by walking away from it.

Tompkins is the rarest version: he walked away from two fortunes, bought a wilderness, and gave it to strangers.

The land is still there. The sheep are gone.

If this kind of story is what you read on weekends, you might belong here.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1