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[𝐕𝐓 @volleytiger]

WDYM BONG REVILLA WALKED FREE AFTER POSTING JUST ₱1 MILLION BAIL IN A CASE INVOLVING ₱92.8 MILLION IN MALVERSATION?

THIS COUNTRY IS A JOKE. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. 🤡

ALSO, MR. BONG REVILLA, WAG KA SA PANGINOON MAGPASALAMAT. HIYA NA LANG. 😭

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

May mga headline na hanggang ngayon, may itinuturo pa rin sa atin.

Tingnan niyo itong dyaryo mula 1962. Kasagsagan noon ng Stonehill case, isa sa pinakamalalaking corruption scandals sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas.

Para sa mga hindi pa pamilyar sa kuwento, si Harry Stonehill ay isang American businessman na nagtayo ng malaking business empire sa bansa. Kalaunan, inimbestigahan siya dahil sa mga alegasyon ng bribery, tax evasion, at corruption.

Ang aking ama, si Jose W. Diokno, ang Secretary of Justice noon. Siya ang nag-utos ng raid sa opisina ni Stonehill. Doon nakuha ang tinatawag na Blue Book, na sinasabing naglalaman ng mga pangalan at records ng mga matataas na opisyal na umano’y tumanggap ng suhol mula sa kanya.

Gusto ng aking ama na magkaroon ng full trial si Stonehill dito sa Pilipinas. Dapat ilabas ang lahat ng ebidensya, marinig nang buo ang kaso, at papanagutin ang sinumang mapapatunayang sangkot.

Pero natalo ang ama ko. Sa halip na litisin, ipina-deport lang si Stonehill.

Pagkaraan nito, nagulat ang aking ama nang mabasa sa mga dyaryo na nag-resign daw siya bilang Secretary of Justice.

Sa article na ito, nilinaw niya ang totoong nangyari: hindi siya nag-resign. Sinibak siya sa puwesto.

Kinilala ng ilang historian ang Stonehill case bilang isa sa pinakamalalaking cover-up sa kasaysayan ng bansa. Isang pagkakataon sana para lumabas ang buong katotohanan, pero nauwi sa pagtatakip at pag-iwas sa accountability.

Hahayaan ba natin itong maulit muli?

P.S. Kung may kopya kayo ng iba pang dyaryong nagbalita tungkol dito, pakisend sa akin. Gusto kong basahin. 😊

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

The Philippines does not need — and did not seek — China's "permission" to move its own personnel within its own Exclusive Economic Zone.

Let us be clear about the facts and the law:

1. Ayungin Shoal is a low-tide elevation within the Philippine exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. The 2016 Arbitral Award, final and binding under UNCLOS, affirmed this. China has no lawful maritime entitlement there. None.

2. BRP Sierra Madre (LS-57) is a commissioned ship of the Philippine Navy stationed on Philippine territory. There is nothing "illegal" about a State's presence in its own EEZ. What is illegal is China Coast Guard's presence and interference in waters where it has no rights to "protect" and no laws to "enforce."

3. The medical evacuation was necessary because CCG personnel injured a Filipino sailor in the first place — striking him on the head with a baton during an unprovoked intrusion within 20 yards of LS-57 on 20 July. Casting the aftermath of your own aggression as "humanitarian consideration" is not magnanimity. It is deception.

4. "Inquired, verified, and monitored" is an admission of illegal interference with Philippine vessels conducting a lawful, routine, and humanitarian operation in Philippine waters — not a demonstration of authority.

The Philippines will continue its rotation, resupply, and medical evacuation missions to LS-57 as a matter of sovereign right, not Chinese sufferance. No amount of narrative laundering changes the law, the facts, or the 2016 Arbitral Award.

[DJE MEDIA @DJEMEDIA_]

Rome is full of these people.......

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Isang panalo para sa katotohanan.

Inaprubahan ng Impeachment Court ang ating request na ipa-subpoena ang bank records, tax records at AMLC reports kaugnay ni VP Sara Duterte.

[andra ayala @feleacity]

sen erwin tulfo doing god’s work by putting the cayetanos in their place 🥴 clock them !!!

[yana @louvwnri]

finally someone has said it

[VA TokLoud 🇵🇭 @tokloud]

Hey @Chinaembmanila! Your fvcking ambassador looks exactly like that…. Proof of evolution!

[Jai Cabajar @jaicabajar]

Good morning to Angel Locsin

[m @nayeonilf]

momo trying to distract us with hot instagram posts

[Everintrigued @EverIntrigued]

Russia trains their sex spies to give the PERFECT blowjob 😭

Deep throat technique, banana practice, 90 degree head angle mandatory.
Your husband will thank you (or hate you).
This podcast went too far and I’m here for it 😂

[Cats for Happiness. @JoyfullCat]

The kitty who is absolutely in the wrong spot for trying to sleep…

[ole 🍒 @sunflowerare]

nothing but mad respect for them honestly. they just had one of the biggest years of their careers and instead of rushing to put out more music to keep the momentum going, they’re choosing to take a well-deserved break and prioritize their health. i love that for them

[范鴻志 RICHARD JUAN 홍준 @richardjuan]

HOT TAKE:
"Diskarte" culture is holding the Philippines back. We celebrate workarounds instead of demanding systems that actually work. We need to demand systems that work.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Ariana Grande impersonator Paige Niemann reveals in her documentary that the singer DMed her:

“i am flattered and i am sure you're very sweet. but i just wanted you to know, i looked back a little ways on your page and i think someone should tell you if they haven't today that you're very beautiful as YOURSELF. without all the make up and trying to make your face look more similar to someone else's and whatnot. i had to say it because it is the truth. always do what makes you happy of course but if i didn't say that to you, i'd regret it. you're beautiful as you are. take care”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[… @johnat143]

Taena. Philippines, now you see why Diokno should have been a Senator.

Iyong intelligence, iyong statemanship, iyong fundamental understanding of what a public office means—in full display with this slice of his appearance before the court.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Rabbits show dominance by demanding to be groomed, while cats show dominance by grooming the other.

A perfect relationship

[transgender crisis actor @h8scd]

imagine having sex for the first time and fumbling so hard the photographers in their closet start cracking up