Raine Deer

You become what you give your attention to. ~ Epictetus

[Edwin Lacierda @dawende]

Resolute Risa: Standing Firm in a Storm of Lies

They came after her again.

The trolls, the rumor mills, the operators who thrive in shadows.
They whisper, distort and invent, recycling the same tired script of lies.

Their latest attack: that Senator Risa Hontiveros made “insertions” in the national budget.

But the record is clear: she voted NO on that very same budget.
And she did so openly and on principle, essentially because the budget failed to uphold the needs of ordinary Filipinos.

Facts, however, don’t matter to those who profit from deceit.
Their aim is not to persuade, but to poison, to turn repetition into doubt and doubt into discredit. Because when a person’s integrity cannot be questioned, they resort to distortion.

And that is why Risa is under attack.

She has not built her career on bluster or political theater.
She has built it on moral clarity, on the steady conviction that compassion and honesty are strengths, not weaknesses.

It is this moral clarity that unsettles the corrupt, frustrates the cynical and enrages those who fear being exposed by her example.

In a Senate too often compromised by convenience, Risa has remained the quiet constant: principled, unbought and unafraid.
Her presence alone is a rebuke to the transactional kind of politics that has long dominated our system.

To some, she has become an obstacle to the usual order.
To others, a growing threat, even to the politics of 2028, where her integrity and moral steadiness have begun to stand out.
Not because she seeks power but because power recoils when confronted by conscience.
Her very consistency has become subversive to those who thrive on contradiction.

Risa has stood alone before: as the lone opposition voice, the lone conscience, the lone defender of truth. And in every storm, she has chosen calm over anger, grace over venom, truth over convenience.

She has shown that decency is not passivity and calm is not surrender.
Her restraint is the strength of someone who knows that dignity does not need to shout, it simply endures.

Because real strength is not measured by volume. It is measured by the courage to stay truthful even when silence would be easier. It is measured by the resolve to do right even when no one is watching.

That is why the attacks will keep coming.

Because her incorruptibility is an indictment of those who have long profited from corruption. Because her transparency exposes their deceit. And because her courage reminds them of their cowardice.

Resolute. Risa.
Unshaken by slander. Unbent by power. A leader of grace, conviction, and moral clarity, the kind of courage that does not need to be declared, because it is seen, felt and remembered.

#ResoluteRisa

[Mar Escalona @escalonamar]

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[Raine Deer @rainedeer05]

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[Raine Deer @rainedeer05]

@PhilippineStar Hindi nga po niya ma account ang pera sa kanya ngayon, dadagdagan mo pa? Anyare sa inyo, Senator Joel Villanueva? Sa tao po ba talaga ang puso ninyo?

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

LOOK BACK: Aquino, Del Rosario, and the phone call that saved Mary Jane Veloso’s life https://t.co/TJwnArXMnf

[Raine Deer @rainedeer05]

@rowena_guanzon @iamkarendavila God heals you of your asthma and restores your health, Maam, in Jesus' mighty name, I pray. Amen! 🙏🙏

[Mang Inasar  @Mang_INASAR]

Iboto natin sila Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan sa Halalan 2025. Para may kasangga si Risa Hontiveros sa Senado!🙏

[raissawriter @raissawriter]

Wjat @mlq3 is trying to say so delicately - this Cavite station project that Marcos Jr is claiming as an achievement was actually started by PNoy. And here's the proof -
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