V i🍝🥧❤️

Proud Single Mom. Coffee Blooded. Owl.
God's love will prevail.

[ShawtyAstrology🧚🏽✨ @shawtyastrology]

capricorn & aquarius placements love when people do this to them so they can remind people that they’re NOT the ones to play with: ♑️♒️😂

[Jerry B. Grácio @JerryGracio]

O, inaatake na naman si Vico, e hindi nga interesado 'yung tao sa kahit na anong posisyon sa 2028. Hindi naman lahat, gahaman sa kapangyarihan. Tigilan na ninyo 'yung tao.

[LJE_🍭🌧💫 @LeeJeAe_]

“Marami sa’tin di narerealize na ganon kafar-reaching ang effect kung mag-away away sila sa senado —— hindi naman sila-sila lang yun di ba, ang epekto non hanggang sa laylayan, hanggang sa magsasaka.”

[Anak ka ng Martial Law @anakmartiallaw]

Eto yung performative Muslim na kumakain ng Pork BBQ pati siguro chicharon. 🤪

[👓 @_MIGZ29]

sᴇɴᴛʀɪ: "ᴍᴀʀᴀᴍɪᴍɢ ᴘɪʟɪᴘɪɴᴏɴɢ ɴᴀᴅᴀʟᴀ sᴀ ᴍʏᴛʜ ɴɪ ᴅɪɢᴏɴɢ ɴᴀ ɢᴀʟɪᴛ sɪʏᴀ sᴀ ɪʟᴇɢᴀʟ ɴᴀ ᴅʀᴏɢᴀ, ᴘᴇʀᴏ ᴅɪᴛᴏ sᴀ ᴅᴏᴋᴜᴍᴇɴᴛᴏɴɢ ɴᴀᴋɪᴛᴀ ᴋᴏ ᴛᴜᴍᴀᴛᴀɴɢɢᴀᴘ ʙᴀᴡᴀᴛ ᴍɪʏᴇᴍʙʀᴏ ɴɢ ᴘᴀᴍɪʟʏᴀ sᴀ ɪsᴀɴɢ ᴅʀᴜɢ ʟᴏʀᴅ"

🤯🤯🤯

[Pari Koy @pads_nosi]

dito na muna to:

ang magmura troll!

[Lynda Jumilla-Abalos @lyndajumilla]

Deport.
Aside from disrespecting the philippine flag, they are violating filipinos’ right to free expression.

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

‘ANG SENADO AY HINDI DAPAT MAGING KANLUNGAN NG ABSENTEEISM AT PAGTATAKIPAN’

READ: Mayors Vico Sotto, Joy Belmonte, and Benjamin Magalong, along with other local chief executives of the group Mayors for Good Governance (M4GG), issued a statement on the recent developments in the Senate involving Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa.

“Hindi dapat pinoprotektahan ang isang halal na opisyal na umiiwas sa kanyang mga responsibilidad habang patuloy na tumatanggap ng sahod mula sa taumbayan,” it reads. | 📸: M4GG/Facebook

[Bekay @kinpatsukenshi]

Apparently there's a volcano erupting right now in the Philippines. I'm watching a livestream when suddenly there's this extremely bright green fireball coming from a completely unrelated trajectory. Is that a meteor?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines.

They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department.

It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia.

If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand.

What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days.

In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually.

For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag.

But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world.

This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (https://t.co/kydhIQfo2A) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't).

Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines.

Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (https://t.co/nkXSajH2Q7).

So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (https://t.co/ZmNWJB03eH).

Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base.

So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined).

Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner."

They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

[V i🍝🥧❤️ @fab_vikki]

Kind of related to kay Alyssa dahil parang ganyan ngayon ang kalakaran pag sasali ka sa field trips, may OJT, or studies. Di ba dapat po accountable ang school sa lahat ng school activities?

[V i🍝🥧❤️ @fab_vikki]

Ang tanong ko lang po sa mga schools ngayon, bakit sila ay nagpapa sign ng waiver na hindi kayo accountable pag may nangyari sa estudyante, para sa mga activities na kayo naman ang nagpapagawa sa kanila?
@bamaquino

[karl 🇵🇸 #MarcosMamamatayTao @eicvsfascism]

"But let us not forget: This Republic was founded by rebels and insurgents who were hunted down like mad dogs in their own time... Some of our greatest heroes[...] were all executed for treason. Yesterday's traitors are today's heroes!"

— Ninoy Aquino
"The Filipino as Dissident"

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Klaro sa batas: ang Impeachment ay exception sa Bank Secrecy Law. Hindi puwedeng gawing taguan ito kung pananagutan sa bayan ang usapan.

Yan ang dahilan kung bakit nailabas ng Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) ang reports ng bilyong-bilyong covered and suspicious transactions sa accounts ni VP Sara Duterte.

Balikan ang naging usapan sa hearing ng House Commitee on Justice noong Miyerkules—at mag-comment kung sa palagay mong may "probable cause" o sapat na batayan para umusad ang kaso.

[raffy magno @raffymagno]

Para lang mas naiimagine natin kung ano ang 6 billion pesos.

That’s more than 7,500 classrooms for last-mile schools.

That’s 8,633,094 days — or 23,652 years — of daily work at Manila’s minimum wage.

Corruption is not abstract. It is livelihoods taken, families strained, communities forced to wait.

Every peso lost is a future taken.

[V i🍝🥧❤️ @fab_vikki]

Ang sakit man pakinggan, but we have to move on and let someone else take the lead. Who's your bet?

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

“𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮 𝗮𝗸𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘆𝗼𝗻. 𝗞𝗮𝘆𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘆𝗮𝘄 𝘀𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘆𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗼… 𝗗𝗶𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮 𝗮𝗸𝗼 [𝘀𝗮 𝗡𝗮𝗴𝗮] 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲.”

After saying she’s done with national politics, Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo urged the public to end the "savior" mentality and look toward a new generation of leaders. | via @punongmhistrado

[ShawtyAstrology🧚🏽✨ @shawtyastrology]

capricorn & aquarius placements never have to get revenge on anyone because they know that the universe WILL humble their enemies. ♑️♒️😌

capricorn & aquarius placements know that karma will expose people, balance everything out and corrects everything in due time. ✨

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

I have tremendous respect and admiration for our Secretary of Defense. He clearly understands the greatest threat to our national security, and his statements are consistently courageous, uncompromising, and principled.