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[GMA News @gmanews]

A FREE 'E-BOOK' ABOUT THE WPS? 🌊🇵🇭

LOOK: The University of the Philippines – Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea (IMLOS) has just published "a concise yet comprehensive document tackling significant aspects of the West Philippine Sea from the point of view of the Philippines."

The 95-page document can be downloaded for free from IMLOS' web site.

Named "The West Philippine Sea: The Territorial and Maritime Jurisdiction Disputes from a Filipino Perspective (The WPS Primer 2026)," the document is an updated version of the primer first published in 2013 by IMLOS and the Asian Center.

"The newest iteration covers significant developments that have happened since, the most notable of which is the 2016 Award in the South China Sea Arbitration, which affirmed the Philippines’ sovereign rights and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea," IMLOS wrote.

Image courtesy: UP IMLOS

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[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

House Prosecutor @ChelDiokno is a ‘masterclass in calm’. Moreso, in yesterday’s Q&A with senator-judges.

The perfect epitome of this famous quote,

“Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.” originally said by Desmond Tutu.

Here, Diokno explains ‘unexplained wealth’ on #ANCHeadstart

[Arjay Angeles, RN @iRalliartJay]

BAKIT NAPAKA POWERFUL ANG PARTE NG SPEECH NA ITO?

Tapos na ang opening statement, at talagang nagustuhan ko ang sinabi ni Rep. Luistro—diretsahan, malinaw, at maiintindihan mo agad ang bawat punto. May laman ang kanyang mga pahayag, kaya ramdam mong mahalaga ang bawat salitang binitawan.

[… @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.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

May legal problem ka pero walang pambayad sa abogado? I-save at i-share ang impormasyong ito 👇

Inilunsad nitong linggo ang Legal Aid Help Desk sa House of Representatives, katuwang ang House Legal Affairs Department at IBP Quezon City Chapter, at sa ilalim ng Unified Legal Aid Service Program ng Supreme Court.

Dito, mas mailalapit ang libreng assistance sa ordinaryong Pilipino na may katanungang legal.

Para sumangguni, mag-email lamang sa [email protected].

Ang hustisya ay hindi dapat para lang sa may pera. Dapat may sandigan ang bawat Pilipino.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Wow! Sana all may choices. 😒🙄

Yung ordinaryong Pilipino, walang option. Kinulong agad dahil napagkamalang nanlilimos.

Pero kapag makapangyarihang opisyal na may kasong plunder at graft, may pa-consultation muna?

Dapat patas ang proseso. Walang special treatment, walang VIP lane, walang batas na para lang sa mahihirap.

[Jumel Bornilla, M.D. @jvbornillamd]

Sa workplace, ganyan ang mga boss na EVIL. Pag gumuho ang lahat, isisisi sa ibang tao. Always remember, pag pumalpak ang project, concerted effort yan ng buong team, hindi lang ng iisang tao. Bakit ba nabibigyan ng pwesto sa society ang ganitong uri ng hayup? Yes hayup ito. Dahil hindi marunong makipagkapwa tao🙄

Bwisit din ako sa mga tao na nanduduro. Wala talagang edukasyon! 🧐

[Thea Tan @imtheatan]

🚨Marcoleta’s Loophole Just Backfired: The P75M Blindspot is Now a Plunder Case! 💸

1. *Akala niya yata nakalusot na siya nung ni-clear siya ng Comelec,* but Marcoleta’s P75 million "technicality" just blew up in his face!

By admitting he accepted millions from private donors *before* the official campaign period to escape an election offense, he practically handed the Ombudsman the ultimate blueprint for a **Plunder case (RA 7080)**.

Talk about playing yourself! 🤡

2. The legal math here is absolutely brutal because *lahat ng elements, swak na swak*:

**Public Officer:** He was an incumbent congressman holding major legislative power.

**The Loot:** A massive ₱75 million total—well over the ₱50 million plunder threshold—split between Mike Defensor (₱30M), Joseph Espiritu (₱25M), and Aristotle Viray (₱20M).

**The Overt Acts:** Repeatedly pocketing multi-million "donations" from private individuals isn't "generosity," *gurl*— that is textbook indirect bribery and a violation of PD 46.

3. What makes this so deliciously ironic is that the evidence is ironclad dahil galing mismo sa kanya!

Investigators don't even have to dig hard; they have his own Verified Position Paper admitting to the ₱75M, the Donor’s Tax Returns, bank slips, and his own loud mouth in television interviews.

4. This is a massive warning shot to every traditional politician trying to manipulate their SOCEs.

You can't just declare "zero donations" to the Comelec and think you're safe.

If you're a public official accepting sacks of millions in the shadows, it’s no longer an election loophole, but it’s a one-way ticket to a plunder conviction.

Get your🍿ready!

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

MGA ELECTRIC COMPANIES ANG DAPAT SUMALO SA LIFELINE DISCOUNT

Legal man na singilin sa consumers ang "pass through costs" tulad ng Senior Citizen Discount at Lifeline Discount, hindi ibig sabihin na makatarungan ito—lalo ngayong nasa gitna tayo ng krisis.

Tandaan natin: Ang mga electric company tulad ng Meralco ay mga “monopoly franchise” na protektado sa kompetisyon. Ang pribilehiyong ito, dapat suklian bilang social obligation.

Comment below kung sang-ayon kayo, at i-share ang video na ito para mas marinig ang boses natin.

[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

Wow!

Senator Risa Hontiveros was invited by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to the GLOBAL PROGRESSIVE MOBILIZATION.

She was asked to be one of the speakers to talk about her experience and perspective in defending democracy in the Philippines.

Si Sara Duterte ba, na-i-invite sa mga ganyang bigating conventions or international fora? 🤔

Oh well, baka masyadong busy si Inday Lustay sa mga gradeschool and highschool graduations na siya naman mismo ay nagpapa self-invite. 😂

In the meantime, si Risa respetado in the international sphere kahit hindi abugado na 80 ang score sa bar exam. 👊

#RisaHontiveros

[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

Wow!

Si Senator Risa Hontiveros pala ang NAUNA na mag question sa confidential funds ng OVP ni Sara Duterte at hindi ang House.

Nakalimutan ko na.

But it was sa House lumabas yung ₱125 Million in 11 days.

#ImpeachSaraDuterte
#AbolishConfidentialFunds

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

The guilty verdict marks a historic acknowledgment that social media platforms’ addictive design features can directly harm young users, setting a legal precedent that could reshape accountability and regulation worldwide https://t.co/sm4SjWY4E1

[Philippine Collegian @phkule]

WATCH: Santiago Dasmariñas, president of the Confederation for Unity, Recognition, and Advance of Government Employees, condemned President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s planned implementation of the compressed four-day work week in government offices.

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

MAGKAIBA ANG DATOS NG PSA AT DA, KAYA MAGKAIBA RIN ANG DESISYON KUNG MAG-I-IMPORT O HINDI 🤦‍♂️

Kung PSA ang basehan, may surplus. Pero kung DA ang basehan, may deficit. Bakit ganun?

Kung ang requirement ay nasa ~267,000 metric tons at ang production ay umaabot sa ~308,000 metric tons, malinaw—may sobra tayo. Bakit tayo mag-iimport kung hindi naman kulang?

Hindi pwedeng malabo ang datos, tapos malinaw ang importation. Kaya hiniling natin sa PSA at DA na mag-harmonize ng datos, gumawa ng MOA, at isumite ito sa Senado.

Kapag mali ang datos, mali ang desisyon—at ang ating mga magsasaka ang nasasaktan.

[ricci @ricci_richy]

LIBRENG SAKAY pero dump truck ang gamit. Ginawang basura ang mga tao.

Is this the bare minimum? Is this what the Filipinos deserve?

[Heidi Mendoza @HeidiMendoza45]

Good AM.

Oh my gas…
Ang taas.

At ayaw na sana nating painitin pa ang diskusyon.
Pero mas lalong ayaw natin ng fake news.
Sa mga nagsasabing “best VP in the universe,” at para na rin sa mga nagtatanong kung ano ba talaga ang nakita noon sa dating VP ng mga Kakampink, isang silip lang ito.
Kayo na ang magdugtong.

At para fair, tingnan natin ang history:
kailan ba talaga nagsimulang tumaas ito?

Financial Liabilities
Taken from the AAR, so may resibo.

I leave it as a challenge to all accountants and auditors out there.

Mapapatanong ka:
bakit biglang lumobo ang financial liabilities mula nang mag-assume ang “best VP”?

PS

Bakit daw ako galit sa “best VP”?

Hindi po. Hindi ako galit sa tao. Galit ako sa fake news. At bilang dating auditor, utang ko sa propesyon ko na labanan iyon.

Kailan daw ako magsasalita kay BBM?
Hindi naman ako “I lab yu BBM.”

Pero paki-review na lang ang mga posts ko mula sa simula.

Financial Liabilities:
2022 – 19,257,356.99
2023 – 106,489,295.79
2024 – 198,867,463.42

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

THIS “ANTI-DYNASTY” BILL IS A PRO-DYNASTY BILL!

Malinaw sa deliberasyon ngayong araw sa plenaryo, sa inilalatag nilang House Bill 8389, pinapayagan pa rin ang sabay-sabay na paghawak ng kapangyarihan ng magkakamag-anak sa maraming antas ng gobyerno.

Ibig sabihin, puwedeng sa iisang pamilya may President, Congressperson, Governor, Mayor, at Punong Barangay nang sabay-sabay.

Wag natin hayaang pumasa nang hindi naiaayos. Like and share kung naniniwala kang kailangan ng TUNAY na Anti-Dynasty Law—walang butas, walang lusot!

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

🚨 Holy shit… Stanford just exposed that every major AI company is using your private conversations to train their models by default.

They analyzed the privacy policies of OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon. Reviewed 28 separate documents across all 6 companies. The findings are worrisome.

Every prompt you type. Every file you upload. Every personal detail you share. All of it feeds directly into model training the moment you hit send.
That health question you asked

ChatGPT at 2am? Training data.

Legal situation you described to Claude? Training data.

The photo you uploaded to Gemini? Training data.

Some companies retain your conversations INDEFINITELY. Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI have no confirmed deletion timeline for certain chat data. Your most private conversations could sit on their servers forever.

It gets worse for kids. Four out of six companies allow children aged 13-18 to use their chatbots, and most don’t treat children’s data any differently. Kids’ conversations are likely getting fed into model training by default. Kids who can’t legally consent to it.

Here’s something most people missed: enterprise customers are opted OUT of training by default. You, the consumer paying $20/month? Opted IN. Companies paying thousands?

Protected automatically. There’s a two-tiered privacy system and you’re on the wrong side of it.

OpenAI even frames the opt-in with guilt. Their settings page says “Improve the model for everyone.” Stanford’s researchers flagged this as a textbook dark pattern designed to make you feel bad for protecting your own data.

Meta’s contractors told reporters they routinely see identifiable personal information in the chat data they review. Journalists were able to positively identify at least one real person from chat transcripts shared with them.

The privacy policies themselves? Stanford had to dig through 6 separate documents just for OpenAI alone. Most real disclosures were buried in sub-policies no normal person would ever find. The researchers said it was challenging for THEM to piece it together. For consumers? “Practically impossible.”

Only Microsoft explicitly stated they try to remove personal data like names, phone numbers, and addresses before training.

The rest are either vague about it or completely silent.

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

'GONE TOO SOON'

Children were killed in Duterte's war on illegal drugs. They were 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17 years old. They had homework to finish, exams the next day, Mass to attend, and most especially dreams to achieve.

Some were asleep, some were getting ready for school. But they were killed and became part of the thousands of Filipinos killed in the bloody war that the previous administration waged. As the ICC case against Duterte moves forward, families demand justice. For them, the search for accountability is inseparable from grief — and from the lives they say were taken too soon. | @AdrianINQ

READ MORE: https://t.co/1OrSgI19eP

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

Atin ang West Philippine Sea. 🇵🇭