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Created this account to stalk komikeros, pet lovers, and athletes -- ended up tweeting about politics. Haist!

[Abante Radyo DWAR 1494 @DWAR1494]

Napaiyak ang isang estudyante na nakatakdang kumuha ng pagsusulit sa isang paaralan sa kahabaan ng San Marcelino dahil wala siyang madaanan matapos abutan ng pagsasara ng mga kalye patungo sa paggaganapan ng pagsusulit. | via Jonas Sulit

[The GUIDON Sports @TheGUIDONSports]

GAMECHANGER

Two-time UAAP Women’s Basketball Most Valuable Player Kacey Dela Rosa received a special citation at the Collegiate Press Corps Awards Night earlier today, June 29, at Discovery Suites Manila. The Blue Eagle was honored for her performance in Gilas Pilipinas.

[raffy magno @raffymagno]

There is something deeply troubling about a society that is quick to demand the harshest punishment for children, while celebrating convicted plunderers, tolerating corruption, and rewarding leaders who normalize violence.

Young people do not grow up in a vacuum. They learn from the values we model, the behavior we reward, and the systems we build around them. Violence rarely begins at the moment it becomes visible. It is often preceded by bullying, social isolation, neglect, untreated trauma, and countless missed opportunities for intervention.

If we want children to reject violence, then we must also be willing to examine the ways our society excuses, glorifies, and profits from it. We cannot celebrate violence among adults and expect young people to learn a different lesson.

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

MAY BARATUNON AN MGA MENOR DE EDAD NGA NADADABI HA KRIMEN

Damo la guihapon iton diri sakto nga impormasyon bahin han Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act.

May baratunon. May proseso. May mga buruhaton para maseguro na diri na ini mauutro.

May baratunon guihapon an mga kag-anak. May obligasyon liwat an gobyerno pinaagi han DSWD ngan iba pa nga mga ahensiya nga maghatag hin suporta ha mga biktima, ngan an ira pamilya.

Iligal an buhi-an an menor de edad nga nahidabi ha krimen ngan mayda sirot ha mga maghihimo hini.

An eksakto nga solusyon diri an pagpasarang hin kahadlok ngan diri asya nga impormasyon, kundi an hul-os nga pagpatuman han balaud ngan pagseguro nga may hustisya, baratunon ngan proteksiyon ha tanan nga mga bata.

[Angat Buhay @angatbuhay_ph]

Our 10KM and 5KM categories are now officially sold out! 🎉

Maraming salamat po for the overwhelming support for the Angat Bayanihan Run.

Due to the high demand, we will be opening additional slots tomorrow morning by reallocating available slots from other race categories.

[Jai Cabajar @jaicabajar]

Geriatric patients with worse arthritis would line up as early as 5am in government hospitals just to be seen by their doctors. Respectfully, sit down in jail.

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

With a valid quroum of 12 Senators (Avelino v. Cuenco), we declared all positions, including the position of Senate President, vacant. This motion only requires a simple majority.

Sen. Alan is no longer Senate President. In his stead, the Acting Senate President is Senate President Pro Tempore, Win Gatchalian.

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

Ang nangyari ngayon ay malinaw na pag-abandona sa tungkulin, pagpapabaya sa responsibilidad, at tahasang pagsasawalang-bahala sa mga alituntunin ng institusyong ito.

Dapat magbitiw si Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano. Ipinakita niyang hindi niya kayang gampanan ang tungkulin bilang pinuno ng Senado.

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

BINABALEWALA ANG ATING RULES. KAMI SA SB-11 AY TUTOL DITO DAHIL IMPUNITY ITO!

Ang nangyari ngayon ay malinaw na pag-abandona sa tungkulin, pagpapabaya sa responsibilidad, at tahasang pagsasawalang-bahala sa mga alituntunin ng institusyong ito. Hindi maaaring patigilin ang Senado sa pagtatrabaho dahil lang tumatangging mamuno ang presiding officer nito.

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

SOLID BLOC 11: THIS IS NOT SENATE INDEPENDENCE BUT A BOYCOTT OF DUTY

The Solid Bloc 11 minority senators were present today for the 5 p.m. resumption of session, ready to work, ready to vote on pending bills and ready to keep the Senate running, but the majority led by SP Cayetano chose not to show up.

They did not even have the courtesy to inform us when they ignored the rules, and could not extend the basic decency of telling the minority that they had no intention of convening.

Let us focus on the work, because the Senate has serious business before it, and if the majority wants to protest, deliver privilege speeches or defend its position, the proper place to do that is on the floor, not by making the chamber stand still.

Ang Senado ay hindi pag-aari ng iisang may hawak ng gavel. Institusyon ito ng taumbayan at napakadaming mahalagang panukala ang nabibinbin dahil sa drama ng mayorya.

Important measures were left hanging because of the majority’s boycott, including the Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers, the Anti-Hospital Detention Bill, the confirmation of generals before the Commission on Appointments and the bills granting Philippine citizenship to Bennie Boatwright III and Matthew James Ramos.

Let us call this for what it is: the claim that this is about Senate independence is false, because what happened today was about the rule of law, public accountability and a lawful process before the Ombudsman and the Sandiganbayan that no senator, no bloc and no presiding officer controls.

This is a boycott because of the arrest of Senator Jinggoy Estrada, and the public should not be asked to believe another convenient line from a leadership that has repeatedly twisted the truth.

Today was a step toward accountability in a controversy that the public has long demanded action on, and after years of people asking why nothing was happening in flood control investigations, it is unacceptable to suddenly call the rule of law an attack on the Senate.

Is Senate President Alan Cayetano now questioning the rule of law?

Sa totoo lang, ang gusto nila ay kampihan, hindi prinsipyo. Gusto nila sumama kami sa boycott, patahimikin ang Senado at gamitin ang minority para manatili ang Senate President sa puwesto habang iniiwasan ang tunay na test of numbers sa floor.

This may be the first time in decades that Senate work stopped because the presiding officer himself refused to work, because even during typhoons and the height of the pandemic, work was suspended only because of necessity or because systems still had to be set up, not because the leadership chose a boycott of duty.

The public has every right to ask whether SP Cayetano is repeating what he did in the House of Representatives, when questions were raised about a leader refusing to step aside, refusing to convene and holding up proceedings when the numbers were no longer certain.

The question now is just as serious: will they do this again for the next two session days, and will they keep the Senate idle simply to avoid facing the numbers on the floor?

The Senate should open its doors, call the session to order and return to work, because no Facebook post, no appeal to institutional pride and no political drama can erase the basic duty of senators to show up, follow the law and serve the people.

And lastly, we call on the Filipino people to watch the Senate closely, because when an institution refuses to work, public vigilance becomes the people’s first line of defense.

[Leila de Lima @manayleila]

Proteksyon sa kabuhayan at dagdag na suporta para sa ating mga mangingisda! ✊

Ang National Fisherfolks Day ay hindi lamang pang-isang araw na pagdiriwang, paalala ito sa halaga at lawak ng kontribusyon ng ating mga mangingisda sa ating bansa – sa paghahatid ng pagkain sa bawat pamilyang Pilipino at pagtataguyod ng food security.

Ang pagpupugay sa kanila ay marapat tapatan ng Estado ng kongkretong mga hakbang upang suportahan ang kanilang pamilya at kabuhayan. Sa panahon ng kalamidad at krisis kung saan isa sila sa laging pinaka-apektado, hindi dapat kukupad-kupad at nagdadalawang-isip ang gobyerno sa pagbibigay sa kanila ng agarang tulong.

Kasama si Sen. @kikopangilinan, tuloy-tuloy ang pagtutok natin para maaksyunan ang inihain nating mga batas at resolusyon sa Kongreso, kabilang ang mahigpit na pagbabawal sa mga commercial vessels sa 15-km municipal waters na nakalaan dapat sa maliliit na mangingisda, buwanang fuel subsidy, pagtatatag ng Congressional Commission on Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food Security o AGRICOM, pagsasabatas ng Magna Carta of Municipal Small-Scale and Subsistence Fisherfolk, pagtatatag ng Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources para mas matutukan at mabigyan ng pondo ang sektor ng pangisdaan, at paninindigan sa ating soberanya at teritoryo kung saan hindi ginigipipit, pinagtatabuyan, at pinagkakaitan ng kabuhayan ang ating mga mangingisda.

Sagana sa yaman ang ating karagatan. Malaking kawalang hustisya na napag-iiwanan ang mga mangingisda sa lipunan. Protektahan at dagdagan natin ang suporta para sa kanilang kabuhayan, upang ang mga pangarap nila ay hindi anurin ng deka-dekadang problema, kundi mabigyan ng matatag na katig at pag-asang maisagwan tungo sa ganap na katuparan.

[Kristina Conti @chronikrissys]

Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano insults the kin of the dead, the jailed, and the persecuted in defending the "war on drugs" during an era of reckoning not only by Filipinos, but by all of humanity.

His insensitivity, his brazen disinformation about the ICC and the...+.

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the continued detention of former president Rodrigo Duterte due to persistent risks of flight and obstruction of justice.

In an eight-page decision dated May 22, Trial Chamber III ruled that no significant circumstances justify his release. The court emphasized that the confirmation of charges against Duterte last April increases the risk of him absconding. (📷: ICC) | via @eon_sanchez

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

Gusto naming lahat na kabilang ng SB-11, o Solid Bloc 11, na maging Senate President si Senator Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian. Napatunayan niya, lalo na sa mga deliberasyon para sa 2026 national budget, na kaya niyang protektahan ang pera ng bayan at matiyak na mapupunta ang pondo kung saan ito higit na kailangan.
Kung prinsipyo ang pag-uusapan, may kakayahan, matatag, at patas si Sen. Win. Sa usaping praktikal, maaari niyang ipag-isaa ng isang mas malawak, reform-oriented na Senado, na mas balanse, mas may pananagutan, at katanggap-tanggap kahit sa ilang miyembro ng kasalukuyang mayorya. Maging ang kasalukuyang Senate President na si Senator Cayetano ay nagsabi na maaari niyang iboto si Senator Win bilang SP.

[JP et. al. @dumidyeypee]

Kislap Diwa Artists and Poets to Loren Legarda: "We want our paintings back!" https://t.co/v1gRGg9791

[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

⚠️ Now that General Aplasca has been proven to be firing against NO ONE and that the Senate was NOT under attack, Alan Peter Cayetano should resign if he has any delicadeza left in his body.

But of course he won’t.

That’s why he should be ousted. 🤥

#OustAlan

[Interaksyon @interaksyon]

WHEN SURVIVAL IS PUNISHED AND POWER IS SHELTERED

An elderly harmonica busker was jailed for a week after being arrested under an anti-mendicancy ordinance, saying he was only trying to earn money to feed his grandchild. He has since been released.

At the same time, Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa has faced scrutiny after taking refuge and later leaving the Senate amid an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, raising renewed questions on how the justice system treats the poor versus the powerful.

Read: https://t.co/jJlhF3K1fg

[Cleve V. Arguelles @CleveArguelles]

Join our petition urging Senate to choose a new Senate President: We call for the resignation of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano as Senate President and urge our Senators to choose new leadership worthy of the institution they serve. The Senate presidency is not an ordinary political office. The position demands not only competence, but trustworthiness, truthfulness, and integrity. Today, many Filipinos across political lines no longer believe that these standards are being upheld by Senate President Cayetano. Filipinos deserve a Senate led by someone whose integrity is beyond question, whose words command belief, and whose leadership strengthens rather than diminishes the institution entrusted to him. For the good of the Senate and the nation, Senate President Cayetano must resign. https://t.co/GjzOf3KY1L

[Jai Cabajar @jaicabajar]

PSA: Last day of voters’ registration is on May 18!!!

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

HELP OUR LOCAL FARMERS! 🙏

Farmers from Benguet resorted to selling cabbages for P10 per kilo by the roadside, as they deal with an oversupply of their harvested crops.

Uploader Dada Raquepo spotted the farmers along Naguilian Road in Sablan, Benguet, around 4:50 PM on Thursday, hailing passersby and motorists to buy their cabbages.

"Driving down from Baguio to La Union po, I saw them. Oversupply daw and sayang kaysa itapon,” she told The Philippine STAR.

Raquepo shared that Benguet farmers decided to travel to La Union to sell cabbages at a lower price, adding that she plans to buy from them again.

“Kanina po may nagbebenta dito sa San Fernando. Next week, Wednesday, nagpa-saklolo na rin sila for subsidy of gas from helpful people, and by Wednesday, meron ulit bababa na truck sa La Union to sell again at P10/kg. Ako po, bibili ako sa Wednesday ng 350 kg at ipapamigay namin sa fur parents community pantry,” she shared. (Photos courtesy of Dada Raquepo)

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