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[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

PAANO KA HINDI KAKAININ NG SISTEMA?

In his commencement speech to the graduates of UP Law 2026, Mayor Vico Sotto shared that he is always asked by people how he keeps his integrity. They ask for his advice on the age old question of:

“Paano kami hindi kakainin ng sistema?”

As a result, he shared ten things he does or thinks about regularly to avoid being eaten by the system.

Here are the TEN THINGS that Mayor Vico Sotto does or follows to keep his integrity:

1. Preparation is more important than courage.

2. Make a list of non-negotiables and review them regularly.

3. When in doubt, choose faith conscience and integrity over money power and ambition.

4. Study cognitive dissonance and continuously identify how and where it affects you. Your decision-making and opinion-forming.

5. Get out of your echo chamber from time to time.

6. Check your ego every single day.

7. Have people in your life who share the same or similar principles, values, and beliefs.

8. Allow said people in #7 to keep you grounded.

9. Give these people the license to hold you accountable.

10. Have a healthy level of respect but also be willing to go against the status quo.

Then the crowd cheered in applause. 👏

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I support doing all ten but I would like to personally highlight Numbers 3, 6, and 7! 💯

#VicoSotto
#GraduationSpeech

[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.

[snoopy posters @snoomfies]

:)

[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.

[rojer @jerronor]

sharmaine

[Neneng H @BINI_NenengH]

Prof Winnie Monsod, despite witnessing lahat simula 1986 people power revolution, hindi napagod at lumalaban pa rin ngayon, tapos karamihan sa atin, na bumoboses lang online, lalo na 'yang mga "influencers" kuno, nagrereklamo na pagod na raw at maging apolitical na lang? Haha 🤣

[ae @umjimyuji]

sabi nila “corrupt politicians are scared of educated and smart voters.” SO KAYA PALA GUMAGAWA KAYO NG PARAAN PARA HINDI UMAYOS ANG EDUKASYON DITO SA PILIPINAS? fuck you all, i hope u rot in the deepest level of hell

[chihan’s couple therapist @reply88s]

paboritong excuse ng mga kupal: si lord

[Tita Oiah @titaoiah27]

Ma’am Zyann Ambrosio is soooo clever! She did not disclose her location while reporting. She managed to record despite fear and panic. She was strategic by not posting or exposing her video recording early. Naghintay muna until may mga inilabas na narratives na wala namang patunay. Kaya ayan, di magtagpo-tagpo ang istorya nong mga senators na sabay-sabay nag-live, OSAA head and especially APC. Lantaran ang mga sinungaling.

[˖ ִֶָ ☽.࣪𓃠 @felinology_]

Removing Senator Kiko and Sen Bam from the chairperson of Agriculture and Education was the biggest bad decision ever made by the senate, fucked PH government !!!!

[juhoon pangilinan @jjuramen]

what the actual fuck? senator bam aquino no longer handles the committee on education? this is genuinely one of the worst decisions the senate has made among many other shit choices. PERWISYO KA TALAGA ALAN PETER CAYETANO!

[Io✨ @wildcatmorana]

: so every single one of the three & a half thousand ppl who was killed was a drug dealer?
: yes!
: how do we know that? u didnt trial them. u didnt prosecute them. u didnt charge them. u shot them on sight. thats not a democratic way of solving crime

SUPALPAL SI ALAN CAYETANO

[Jai Cabajar @jaicabajar]

SINASAYANG NIYO TAX NG BAYAN SA MGA KAGAGUHAN NIYO

[mayka 🍉 @maykamaykaba]

Remember when Myca Ulpina, a 3-year-old child, was killed in a police operation? Anong sinabi ni Bato dela Rosa? “Shit happens.”

#NeverForget

[huxley @jemszmcnase]

Hindi porket anti Duterte eh pinipilit na kayong maging Leni, at lalong hindi kami loyalist! Let us all be a Pro Philippines, stop with being fanatic sa politics!!

[Arshie Larga @Arshiethromycin]

Gunshots inside the Senate and innocent civilians, media personnel, and staff could have been caught in the middle of it all.

Kung peacefully na lang sana sumuko si Bato, this situation could have been avoided. Grabeng kaguluhan ang dinala mo, Bato.

[K 💫 @keiIuchi]

TW // gunshots, violence

I MEAN??? Iivestream pa lang ‘to what more yung mga andun sa senado tangina mo bato sobrang lala nito

prayers for the safety of our journalists, reporters, media staff and innocent people 🙏

[K 💫 @keiIuchi]

Mel Tiangco: matagal kayong hindi pumasok eh. 6 na buwan kayong nawala sa senado…

Karen Davila: tapos eto kayo tumatakbo, umiiwas sa mga pulis, umiiyak sa senado, takot na takot kayo…

HAHAHA women roasting the hell out of this stupid, cowardly senator. we love to see it! 😌

[ً @ikeufaes]

cravings: good governance