grudgby captain amity blight doing thorn vault🌱
it's my first time drawing something like this so rts and feedbacks are greatly appreciated! 🥺
#AmityBlight#TheOwlHouse#tohfanart
"The country does not need more 'successful' people who are pleasant, polished, and harmless. It needs people who are difficult to fool, difficult to buy, difficult to discourage, difficult to turn indifferent."
—Atom Araullo to UP Baguio 2026 graduates
these days all im seeing is isekai type historical dramas (which i think has it's own charm) but the typical historical kdrama slaps harder with the melodrama factor and political power struggle
god i miss historical kdramas like dong yi. convoluted storylines, rightful rise of the mc to power, frustratingly smart and audacious villain clans, mc outsmarting the villain in thrilling plot twists, and 1-hour 60-episode satisfying melodrama run 🥲
This ad irked Duterte so much that he tried to revoke Trillanes’ amnesty and successfully denied ABS-CBN a franchise.
All for it to be hauntingly prophetic.
"But Naga City is pulling off something that feels almost alien in the Philippines right now. They are actually giving people the receipts. With the launch of their new People’s Budget Portal, Naga is staging a quiet revolution against traditional patronage politics."
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To be honest, when most Filipinos hear the word "budget," our minds instantly go to the worst place. We think of the massive flood control scandals, billions of pesos lost to ghost infrastructure projects, and the never-ending drama over confidential funds and hidden congressional budget insertions.
We’re so used to public money vanishing into a black box that we just assume corruption is the default setting.
But Naga City is pulling off something that feels almost alien in the Philippines right now. They are actually giving people the receipts. With the launch of their new People’s Budget Portal, Naga is staging a quiet revolution against traditional patronage politics.
Instead of hiding the city’s billions behind 500-page accounting spreadsheets designed to make your eyes glaze over, this platform lays everything bare. It translates dense government spending into eight simple, real-world goals you can actually track from your phone.
Things like building decent homes, keeping the streets walkable, and fixing actual flood-prone areas before the money even gets approved.
The real kicker, though, is that it stops politicians from playing gatekeeper with public funds. In a country where people often have to beg local officials for medical assistance or community funds, Naga’s People’s Budget Ordinance legally mandates that citizens and local groups get a direct seat at the table to decide where the money goes.
It effectively moves power out of closed-door city hall meetings and hands it straight to ordinary residents.
To top it all off, the entire digital blueprint is open-source and completely free for any other municipality in the country to copy-paste. At a time when public trust in government spending is at an all-time low, Naga is proving that transparency isn't some impossible, expensive dream. It just takes a local government with the political courage to stop hiding the numbers.
- Gerry Cacanindin
📸 Leni Robredo
A SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION OF SHARED HISTORY 🚣♂️
The Provincial Government of Batanes thanked the Tao people of Lanyu, Taiwan for their efforts to visit to Batanes via their boat, reliving the voyage that their ancestors took.
The group also entrusted the Cinedkeran boat which they used to the people of Batanes, in the hope that the Ivatan people would make a visit to Lanyu in 2027.
"Dios mamahes, Lanyu. May the seas be calm and may our paths cross again soon," the provincial government said.
📷 Provincial Government of Batanes via Facebook
Related: https://t.co/XkY1QRIMDi
Despite their mandate to attend in special session, these senators are still absent:
Cayetano, Alan Peter
Cayetano, Pilar “Pia”
Marcos, Imee
Marcoleta, Rodante
Padilla, Robin
Villar, Mark
Villar, Camille
Legarda, Loren
Go, Christopher “Bong”
Remember them and do not vote again.
This is such a good point:
“When multiple witnesses function like synchronized recorders, the testimony fails the test of personal knowledge and perception because the court cannot determine where the real observation ends and the SCRIPT begins”
BREAKING: The Bulacan RTC Branch 20 has ordered the arrest of government contractor Curlee Discaya for malversation in connection with alleged anomalies in flood control projects.
The court has also ordered the arrest of Sarah Discaya, St. Timothy Construction executive Roma Rimando, former DPWH engineers Brice Hernandez and Jaypee Mendoza, and six others.
The case is non-bailable. | @jasonsigalesINQ
READ MORE: https://t.co/qOWZUFw6Vm
DID YOU KNOW?
On May 5, 2015, the 16th Congress of the Senate of the Philippines, then under the leadership of former Senate President Franklin Drilon, declared a quorum on their 69th session despite only having 12 out of 24 senators present.
Back then, four senators were out of the country and thus could not participate in the session, while three were detained and "physically unable to attend,"according to Sen. Drilon.
Eleven years later, during the 69th session of the 20th Congress’ First Regular Session on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 12 out of 22 senators declared a quorum and promulgated that all positions be declared vacant, including the Senate Presidency. Sen. Jinggoy Estrada was not present as he was detained at the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas, while Sen. Bato dela Rosa’s whereabouts were unknown since he was last seen leaving the Senate last May 14, 2026.
Senators in both instances include Sens. Alan Cayetano, Loren Legarda, Bam Aquino, Pia Cayetano, JV Ejercito, Chiz Escudero, Lito Lapid, Tito Sotto, and Jinggoy Estrada.
VIDEO COURTESY: Senate of the Philippines/YouTube
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Imagine ah:
✅ 3 Former Senate Presidents with 8 years of experience in total being as Senate Presidents has spoken that it is lawful and within the Rules of The Senate
✅ The Lower House of Congress (House of Representatives) recognizing its lawfulness
✅ The Malacañang Palace (Executive) recognizing its lawfulness
✅ A landmark Supreme Court precedent that was used multiple times in the Senate Plenary
✅ The Integrated Bar of The Philippines saying its lawful
Ano pa ba kulang para paniwalaan ng lahat na quorum can be 12, if the active Senate membership is 23.