Yang

Pro at hitting snooze and chasing dreams. Expert procrastinator, aspiring traveler. Lover of slow mornings, long walks, and caffeine.

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

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[Kristoffer @indiohistorian]

A Senate President must encourage constructive dialogue among colleagues, to enact meaningful legislation and resolutions, in service of the nation.

But what do we have now?

[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

Senators were seen crying yesterday as a colleague was being arrested for plunder.

This is in no way an indictment of the accused senator but I would like to remind our lawmakers…

Iyakan n’yo ang ninanakawang Pilipino.
Iyakan n’yo ang binabaha dahil sa nakawan sa flood control.
Iyakan n’yo ang gutom nating mga kababayan.

Get out of your bubble. Please.

[Yang @yangnotsoyoung]

Pagod. Nakakapagod. Hayyyy.

[Edwin Lacierda @dawende]

It is quite deplorable to see the degradation of the Senate as an institution.

The Senate was conceived as the nation’s conscience, not its cockpit. And where we once saw it as a chamber of august men and women, we are now witnesses to most of them descended from cunning and fearful men, who have pedestaled a fugitive from justice over the dignity of the institution.

Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies are but two literary comparisons we can appropriate to the current situation, an institution distorted by opportunism, ambition and political convenience. Made worse by the collapse of time honored norms, and the descent from order and decency into tribalism.

Quo vadimus, Senatus?

[Dr. Pamela Cajilig @anthropam]

Dragging an entire country through indignity and chaos for vermin.

[Mara Cepeda @maracepeda]

One thing is clear tonight: the Duterte-allied Senate bloc is willing to plunge the institution into chaos and to weaponise fear, all to shield one of their own from accountability.

[JM ✈️ @jmsantosreyes]

Alan Peter Cayetano is a whole different breed of evil. There are no words.

[JM ✈️ @jmsantosreyes]

Nakakagalit. Nakakaiyak. Lahat ng karahasang ito para protektahan ang isang pugante, ang isang lilitisin, at ang kani-kanilang makasariling interes.

[JC Punongbayan @jcpunongbayan]

13 May 2026. A dark day in Philippine history. #ArrestBatoNow

[Mara Cepeda @maracepeda]

The Philippine Senate really out here proving that when you elect clowns, expect a circus. The country’s last bastion of democracy is no more 🤡

[Luke Espiritu @LukeEspirituPH]

BATO DUWAG

[Dino Singson de Leon @iamdinodeleon]

Binababoy ng isang kawatan ang Senado. The right thing to do is to submit to arresting authorities, not to drag the Senate as an institution to this mess.

The Senate cannot be a coddler of an international criminal.

[raffy magno @raffymagno]

All this chaos.

Just to protect the Dutertes and their allies.

The country has sacrificed too much—our institutions, our democracy, and far too many lives—for the survival of people who believe they are above accountability.

[raffy magno @raffymagno]

The protection now being extended to Senator Bato is the same protection this state denied thousands of Filipinos during the bloody years of the drug war.

No warrants served with caution. No guarantees of due process. No Senate shielding them from arrest. No powerful institution rushing to defend their rights after they were branded guilty without trial.

For years, ordinary Filipinos were told that fear, violence, and death were necessary. Now that accountability is approaching the powerful, suddenly the language has changed to rights, dignity, and protection under the law. The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Yang @yangnotsoyoung]

@ABSCBNNews Kadiri ka. Ganid.

[Yang @yangnotsoyoung]

@inquirerdotnet What a shame.

[Pari Koy @pads_nosi]

So, ang Philippine Senate ngayon ay kanlungan na ng kriminal!

What a shame! SHAME!

[Yang @yangnotsoyoung]

@inquirerdotnet Kadiri.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Kahit sino pa ang nakaupong lider ng Senado, mahigit na babantayan ng publiko ang proseso ng impeachment. The House has already done its job, and I hope the Senate will fulfill its constitutional duty under the 1987 Constitution to forthwith convene as an impeachment court once the articles of impeachment are transmitted to it.