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[TV Patrol @TVPatrol]

Sampung taon nang nakatengga ang Alaminos-San Pablo Bypass Road sa Laguna na dapat sana ay magpapabilis ng biyahe patungong Quezon Province at Bicol region.

Bukod sa problema sa right-of-way, ayon sa DPWH, ang mga Discaya ang may hawak ng kontrata sa naantalang proyekto.

[CBCPNews @cbcpnews]

A Catholic bishop has questioned government permits covering the cutting of more than 218,000 trees for mining projects in Palawan. Read more: https://t.co/2DeR3ih71W

[zepollopez @x3pol]

@MangingisdaSays Is there no way to do this properly?

[Mangingisda 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @MangingisdaSays]

This is horrible. The Ramsar site in Sasmuan, Pampanga will be affected. The remaining mangroves from Bataan to Bulacan will vanish just like what happened to the mangroves in Taliptip!

Another project by SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION will destroy mangroves!!!

[zepollopez @x3pol]

@AlertaMundoNews The old lady probably told them to priotitize the kids.

[SPIRALSTAIRCASE..🎯 @Obi_Prodigalson]

Really...? Eh kahit na batang elementarya alam kung sinong nagsabi nito.. 😅😅

[zepollopez @x3pol]

@Snow629264 @kunji2323 Save time. Get a fecalysis done first then show up at the doctor's office with the results.

[zepollopez @x3pol]

@beyzipsg I know this type, have worked with and for them for decades. Generally an asset to a team.

[Mr WB🌏🇲🇾🇵🇸 @WBWhiskeyBravo]

The Silent Takeover: How China is Quietly Rewriting the Borders Off Sarawak’s Coast

While most of us go about our daily lives, a quiet but deeply troubling game of chess is playing out just off the coast of Sarawak, where fresh ship-tracking data reveals that China’s massive 8,000-ton supply ship, the Sansha 2 Hao, along with its armed escort cutter, the San Sha Zhi Fa 301, has packed up and left Hainan. This fleet is steaming directly south toward Beting Serupai (James Shoal / Seahorse Breakers), a completely submerged reef sitting just 45 nautical miles—about 80 kilometers—northwest of Bintulu, placing it squarely in Sarawak’s backyard. This voyage fits perfectly into Beijing's broader grey-zone tactics, which are designed to aggressively change realities on the water while staying just below the threshold of open military conflict. To enforce its sweeping nine-dash line without triggering an international military outcry, China masterfully relies on "white hull"—coast guard and municipal vessels—instead of navy warships, allowing them to bully local maritime zones under the guise of routine domestic and administrative patrols.

The reason Chinese delegates and municipal fleets execute this voyage on a strict, annual basis comes down to a calculated symbolic ritual designed to manufacture legal and historical "evidence" of ownership. Because Beijing historically and geographically defines Beting Serupai (Zengmu Ansha) as the absolute southernmost point of Chinese national territory, it holds massive nationalistic and political significance. Since the feature is completely submerged about 22 meters underwater, China cannot build an artificial military island on it; instead, they send annual delegations on these white hulls to conduct "sovereignty ceremonies" above the reef. In past rituals, Chinese naval personnel and officials have literally dropped sovereignty steles (stone markers) into the water and stood on the decks to swear collective oaths of allegiance to defend the motherland's outer limits. By sending the Sansha city fleet down every single year, Beijing is attempting to satisfy the international legal criteria of "continuous and effective administration." They are intentionally creating an annual paper trail that falsely claims a local Chinese city has been successfully governing a piece of the seabed just 80 kilometers from Bintulu.

This annual municipal voyage is just the crowning piece of a massive, multi-tiered machinery that builds upon the homework done by older research ships like the Nan Feng and Zhong Shan Da Xue, which originally gathered resource intelligence in the Malaysian Maritime Zone (MMZ). Today, that legacy is carried forward by modern high-tech spies like the XIANG YANG HONG 33, YUE ZHAN YU ZHI 20026, and 20027, which were caught on satellite imagery on June 6 tightly bunched together at Terumbu Laya (Dallas Reef), updating underwater maps under the protective shield of armed white hulls like CCG 5302, 5403, 5309, and 5901. By dropping the Sansha municipal fleet directly alongside this ongoing scientific and military grid, Beijing is essentially using the annual trip to lock down East Malaysia’s richest economic zones, posing a direct threat to Sarawak’s multi-billion dollar offshore oil and gas fields. Yet, while neighbors like the Philippines push back through "assertive transparency" by openly exposing these incursions, Putrajaya has stuck to its strict playbook of "quiet diplomacy," preferring behind-the-scenes talks to avoid public friction. This heavy silence risks being misread by Beijing as "tacit acquiescence," giving them a path of least resistance to slowly turn a fictional map into a permanent reality. Furthermore, because national security is tightly controlled by the federal government, this quiet approach leaves the local Sarawak state leadership dangerously in the dark about a creeping grey-zone threat operating just a stone's throw away from its vital economic lifelines and maritime sovereignty.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

This is an extremely serious and dangerous moment.

From this statement it seems likely that China has occupied the Scarborough Shoal.

[BRP Sierra Madre @BRPSierraMadre]

🚨CHINA’S NEW MOVE IN THE WEST PHILIPPINES SEA IS RAISING ALARMS | The presence of Chinese nationals on a floating platform inside Bajo de Masinloc, coupled with the coordinated deployment of PLA Navy warships, China Coast Guard vessels, maritime militia units, and rotary-wing aviation assets, reflects a calculated campaign to entrench China’s influence and establish a persistent footprint within Philippine waters.

These actions are indicative of an ongoing gray-zone operation aimed at transforming temporary presence into perceived control, undermining Philippine sovereignty while advancing China’s strategic objective of consolidating dominance in the West Philippine Sea.

📢 The World is Watching. Share and Expose the deception. Defend the truth.

#BRPSierraMadre #WestPhilippineSea #ScarboroughShoal #BajoDeMasinloc #DefendTheTruth #KnowTheFacts #RulesBasedOrder #ProtectWhatIsOurs #MaritimeRights #FactsOverPropaganda

[🏛 ᜀ ᜃᜓ ᜐᜒ ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔ 🏛 @iam_jniest]

Pwede naman palang gumawa ng marker nang walang pangalan ng pulitiko.

📸 Naga City Government

[Christine Niles @ChristineNiles1]

As a young priest in San Francisco, Fr. Robert McElroy — under the guidance of ultra-progressive Abp. John Quinn — publicly opposed Rome's letter rejecting same-sex civil unions and gay adoption.

From late journalist George Neumayr: "McElroy, speaking for Quinn, made it clear to the press that the archdiocese of San Francisco would not honor the letter. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story titled 'SF Archdiocese Opposes Vatican Letter on Gay Bias Law' and quoted McElroy’s dismissal of the letter as 'not binding on them.'"

https://t.co/Ecv71Qgot8

[๋dae 🔻 @everydaeyy]

drove past quirino avenue and saw the "seedlings" that they've replaced with the old trees.

tanginang yan ang sloppy, it looked so barren and so abandoned. Tinaniman lang nila and then iniwanan na agad. Mema gawa lang para may mapakita lang na may "malasakit' sila lul

[radar PH @radarph_media]

A newspaper clipping about the young Jovito Salonga is making the rounds online, and it is easy to understand why.

The short article identified Salonga as a 27-year-old law professor who had already earned law degrees from both Harvard and Yale, and had just won the Andrew Cottier Prize for writing the best paper on International Law at Yale.

For many Filipinos, the clipping is not just nostalgia. It is an indictment.

At a time when the Senate is filled with a mix of lawyers, broadcasters, actors, former police officials, political heirs, executives, and career politicians, Salonga’s credentials feel almost unreal.

Long before he became Senate President, Salonga had already topped the Philippine Bar, studied at Harvard and Yale, taught law, and built a reputation as one of the country’s sharpest legal minds.

But Salonga was not admired for brilliance alone. As senator, he became one of the country’s most respected and principled public servants—a lawmaker known for independence, integrity, and courage even when his positions were unpopular.

He fought the Marcos dictatorship, defended political prisoners, survived the Plaza Miranda bombing, and continued speaking truth to power. After EDSA, he chaired the PCGG and helped pursue the recovery of ill-gotten wealth. As Senate President, he also led the historic 1991 vote rejecting the extension of the U.S. bases treaty.

That is why the old clipping stings. At 27, Salonga was already being recognized internationally for scholarship. Later, he proved that intelligence could be matched with moral courage.

The issue is not that only lawyers or academics should sit in the Senate. Public service can come from many professions. But the viral Salonga clipping reminds Filipinos of a higher standard: senators who were not merely famous, but formidable.

In that sense, the post is less about the past than the present. It quietly asks whether voters are still sending their best to the Senate.

[Christine Niles @ChristineNiles1]

Hypocritical Hierarch: Cdl. McElroy accused the faithful Msgr. Stephen Rosetti of comments that "gravely undermine" Church teaching. Yet McElroy has:

-said climate change is worse than abortion
-minimized the need for chastity
-pushed for the Eucharist to be given to pro-abort politicians and same-sex partners
-downplayed the gravity of adulterous unions

Who's the one "gravely undermining" Church teaching?

Watch SPECIAL REPORT: McCarrick's Man in D.C. https://t.co/87VMO3VyRa

[zepollopez @x3pol]

@Kian1985dez Kadalasan, kapag binatian ka na may kasamang ngiti, susukuklian mo din ng ngiti ang iyong kausap kung ayaw mong mapagkamalang suplado o mayabang.

[Tiny Reverie🇺🇸✝️ @TReverie]

昨天很多人討論64，其實大家可能不清楚另一個更可怕的事。
山東百日無孩。
「山東百日無孩」是指1991年發生在中國山東省冠縣（以及臨近的部分地區）的一場極端強制計劃生育運動。為了在人口控制的政績考核中達標，當地官員發起運動，強制要求在百日內無論頭胎、二胎或懷孕幾個月，一律實施強制引產與墮胎
1980年代起，中國全面推行「一胎化」政策，人口控制指標與各級官員的升遷、政績直接掛鉤。當時山東冠縣面臨極大的人口指標壓力，為了向上級交出「零出生」的完美政績答卷，縣委書記曾昭起等地方官員決定採取極端手段，發起了名為「百日無孩」的無底線運動
所謂的「百日」通常指 1991 年 5 月 1 日至 8 月 10 日。在此期間，當地政府動用了鄉鎮幹部、民兵和公安進行地毯式排查：
強制搜捕： 許多懷孕婦女在半夜被拖出家門，直接押送至鄉鎮衛生院或計生辦。無視胎兒月份： 無論懷孕幾個月，甚至是即將臨盆的孕婦，一律被強制施以引產手術。社會恐慌： 為了逃避強制引產，大量孕婦被迫四處逃亡、躲藏，或尋求親友庇護，整個縣城陷入嚴重的恐懼與混亂中。
#山東百日無孩
官員最後還因為達標而升官。
小孩的照片和影片我就不放了

[zepollopez @x3pol]

@chonggo For every corrupt politician there are hundreds of co conspirators and thousands of consenting voters. Ppl know they're corrupt they think they can get a cut.