Audience of the UP Law Batch 2022 graduation ceremony chants "Ang Presidente Leni Robredo, Bise Presidente Kiko Pangilinan. Sa Gobyernong tapat, angat buhay lahat" after former VP Leni Robredo is done with her speech. Robredo is the guest speaker.
A simple "no thanks" would have sufficed. No need to be condescending, sex work is work, the jobs that are truly shameful and merits this response are jobs that don't even require taking off a layer of clothing just saying.
When Marcos Jr. greeted supporters outside HQ, I overheard cops saying "yung media kasi magulo eh." We are not. We are orderly if you give us space. Journalists deserve that space. We need to do something, and do it now, lest we are yielding this space inch by inch.
Welcome to the Philippines where if cops shoot and kill it takes 4 years to create a review panel, and another 2 years to file complaints. But if you tweet against a presidential candidate you are jailed and charged in 3 days.
Good on ABC to expose how the Marcos team tried to shut down the interview. I can attest, based on personal experience, that they try to control press conferences and interviews, and journalists who insist get blocked or denied access, making it extremely difficult to work.
ABC News Australia journalist Sarah Ferguson reveals what happened behind the scenes of her recent interview with the dictator’s son, particularly when she brought up martial law. His team tried to stop the interview.
After playing Bagong Lipunan, Toni Gonzaga shouts: "Tapos na, may nanalo na, tapos ang laban. Buhay na buhay ang pagmamahal kay Apo Lakay Ferdinand Marcos."
70,000 detained, 34,000 tortured and 3,240 killed during martial law.
Bongbong Marcos declined to show up for the GMA News Jessica Soho presidential interviews,
@24OrasGMA
reports. In a teaser for tomorrow's full program, Soho says they invited the 5 highest ranking candidates but only Lacson, Moreno, Pacquiao and Robredo accepted.
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Toni Gonzaga, one of ABS-CBN's biggest celebrities, introduces Rodante Marcoleta who pushed to deny the franchise renewal of the network costing thousands of Kapamilya workers their jobs.
Great, incisive, well-researched questions, and excellent follow ups and handling by Jessica Soho. This is truly a bias for truth, and for facts. Dasurv ng mga botante.
It's official - a cancel COC case vs presumptive President Bongbong Marcos reaches Supreme Court. Ted Te group's petition for certiorari tells SC: "A candidate's putative election victory cannot cure his ineligibility. Elections are more than just a numbers game."
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I don't get the hate on Liza. She clearly said in the vlog she was launching a new endorsement, that she dabbled in some directing, and taking more control, the ad being the first of such moves. Why does it enrage you when a woman takes full control?
Dinalaw ni Bahaghari Chaiperson Reyna Valmores si Awra Briguela na nanatili pa rin sa custodial facility ng Makati Police matapos masangkot sa gulo sa labas ng isang bar Huwebes ng madaling araw. | via
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JUST IN: ICC will move ahead with its investigation into the killings in the Philippines under former president Rodrigo Duterte. The ICC Pre Trial Chamber approved today the request of Prosecutor Karim Khan to resume probe.
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Applying for visas is really a dehumanizing experience for the racial minority. Ofcourse, critics (and there are lots now against me) will say "she's so entitled!" If you're okay w/ still paying the price of colonialism, go ahead, but let me feel the rage of my weak passport.
Commissioner Rey Bulay: “To those issuing public opinion that Comelec is biased or that it would cause election fraud, I am warning you that we would not hesitate to call upon the AFP [...] to round you up and have you jailed.”
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If we're not assertive, not aggressive, the historical account of the next six years would be written through the vlogs that Malacañang will release, or the photos they choose to post in instagram. This must not happen. Claim this space.
President Bongbong Marcos is joined by three members of his family in an official trip: wife Liza, sons Sandro and Simon. Are we paying for the three of them? What's their role in the delegation?
We've been exposed, battered even, in this war on truth for too much too long for us not to realize we have to stop giving space to lies, to brazen undermining of institutions. Tigilan niyo na ang pa quote card for engagement. Masyado na tayong talo. Lumaban naman tayo.
You're not an activist, not a journalist, and generally not political, why be scared of Anti Terror Bill? Remember teachers Ronnel Mas of Zambales & Juliet Espinosa of GenSan; driver Ronald Quiboyen of Aklan, all charged with inciting to sedition.
"All the President wants is fair reporting. Kung masama ka sa Pangulo, mas magiging masama siya sa'yo." - Senator Bong Go, former presidential special aide and moonlight spokesperson
If this statement, said at the Senate, is not taken as a threat to the press then ewan ko na
NOW: President-elect Bongbong Marcos holds what appears to be a press briefing for select media outfits. His Press Sec Atty Trixie Cruz Angeles by his side. We were not told of this briefing, and were told their HQ is closed today. Net25, SMNI, GMA only ones there
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In Manila, President Marcos gathers a crowd of a hundred thousand to launch(?) a new Philippines. In Davao City, the Dutertes pull all the stops to malign the president. The guests in both events, the crossovers, are headliners themselves. The story? That unity was a scam.
This much I can tell you: covering Baby River was traumatizing too for justice reporters. We've seen so many bad things so many times but nothing is more jarring than having to cover River's life from birth to death - aware we weren't able to do anything. Write is all we can do.
To everyone asking why Quiboloy isn't arrested yet. Here's a thread on the process: He is charged and wanted in the US, which is a foreign jurisdiction. Because of sovereignty, they cannot arrest him here. BUT Ph and US have an extradition treaty.
Beside President Rodrigo Duterte is his spiritual adviser, the controversial preacher Apollo Quiboloy wanted in the USA for sex trafficking of children. That's SC Justice Ramon Paul Hernando to their right, Sara's former professor and "good friend" who will administer oath.
My favorite career advice came from a man, sent to me when I was 23 and suing my company for labor dispute: "You'd go so far if you just learned how to keep quiet."
I didn't. You shouldn't too, especially not because a man said so. Happy women's month! Give them hell 🌻
LOOK: Marvic Leonen is now Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice. He is second in the line of seniority, the Chief Justice being the first. SAJ Leonen also takes over chairmanship of the Senate Electoral Tribunal.
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Journalists who would want to leave, the country or the profession, should be able to do so free of guilt. We all deserve our peace. Everyone staying has duty to improve it for both the new and returning ones. It's a duty in exchange of the privilege - not everyone can afford to.
I never reached NSPC. Laging talo. Elementary, talo. High School, talo. News writing, feature writing, editorial writing, mhie lahat hindi lumagpas sa district. Ano ang lesson? Ang puhunan sa pangarap ay lakas ng loob at kapal ng mukha na sumubok ng sumubok.
Meron pa bang National Schools Press Conference? Nakakamiss. When I was in high school, hanggang Regionals lang ako for Sports Writing. And ang pinaka fave ko noon is yung cultural night kasi palaging nananalo ang contingent namin noon.
News reports should not headline Canada's program as "visa free to eligible Filipinos" when eligibility is strictly narrow: former holder of Canadian visa, and holder of US visa. That is nowhere near being visa free.
Carlo Paalam, 23 years old and a first time olympian, brings home silver to the Philippines, and to Cagayan de Oro where he used to pick trash and earn P150 for city games. What.a.feat. In life and in sports. For self, for country. Congrats, Carlo!
SILVER FOR THE PHILIPPINES! 🇵🇭🥈
BREAKING NEWS. Filipino boxer Carlo Paalam brings home the country's second silver in the Tokyo Olympics! WE ARE PROUD OF YOU, CARLO!
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#PHI
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WATCH: Always believing daughter Leila was just in the USA studying, De Lima gives her 90-yo ailing mother Norma dollar bills. De Lima last visited mom in 2019 on a court furlough.
ABS-CBN, without a franchise and a regional group, continues to headline Leyte floods. While I acknowledge disasters shouldn't be used to prove a point, I do hope people realize the importance of institutional media. Attacked and battered, we will always be where you need us.
TV Patrol’s top story since Monday has been the floods in Leyte, filed by the once reporters of our regional station (now stringers) who are there on the ground. On Tuesday, it was a live report from Baybay City itself.
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WATCH: Envelopes given to attendees of Uniteam rally in Sta Rosa, Nueva Ecija where Umali local slate also campaigned inside gov's compound. I saw two envelopes containing P500 each, but they did not consent to take photos of money. Marcos camp, Partido Federal deny knowledge.
When Jinggoy Estrada's microphone had to be changed, he joked "mic ba ni De Lima 'yun?" and is applauded. Senator Leila de Lima is mounting a senatorial campaign from her jail in Camp Crame, the same jail Estrada was in over plunder until he was granted bail by the Sandiganbayan.
My pet peeve is visa grantees saying with pride: oh you have to have X amount of money, which I did. Well, congratulations proving to the West you had to have that much to travel, when White travelers just have to exist to see the world.
Important report. A first in quite some time that we're seeing very visual proof of what the former justice secretary called as "strange things in BuCor."
EXCLUSIVE: "Misteryoso," walang dokumento o anumang permit, at palihim ang nadiskubreng paghuhukay sa loob ng New Bilibid Prison, ayon mismo kay BuCor OIC Gregorio Catapang.
Lorraine Badoy, a former Palace official with 150k followers on Facebook and a platform on SMNI red-tagged Judge Marlo Malagar of Manila & said "so if I kill this judge...?" Malagar is the 2nd judge in only a year blatantly red-tagged. What's the
@SCPh_PIO
going to do?
Right in the heart of Marcos seat of power. This was unimaginable even a few months ago, when Kakampinks talked in secret group chats. Now they are all out, in the streets, ready to face the backlash of a small town where everybody knows each other.
WATCH: Ilocanos backing the candidacies of VP Leni Robredo and Sen Kiko Pangilinan march at the commercial center of Laoag City, Ilocos Norte to boost support for the tandem in the province.
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We really did give our best to the world, but in the process drained our own pool, tore families apart & raised generations of Filipinos commodified by how fast they can get a track abroad. Labor export is a bane to our country's heart and soul, don't let a slogan cover that up
This was Rodrigo Duterte on September 20, 2016, in a first out of the hundred times he will say over the course of six years variants of these words to cops & soldiers: Kill, I will protect you, I will go to jail, if they ask you, just say it was my order.
May we never forget.
Some of us spent our whole lives single handedly building confidence, and it's almost often fragile. So when you have a grasp of it, don't let anybody break it. In 2023, have the audacity to be you. You earned it. Happy New Year!
It has to be noted that the camp of the President-elect still has not informed journalists of guidelines and protocols for coverage on June 30. It's highly unusual for a coverage of this magnitude to leave media in the dark 3 days before D-Day.
LOOK: Members of the various components of the AFP and civilian security forces rehearse for the Civic and Military parade in front of the National Museum in Manila on Monday for Pres-elect Bongbong Marcos' inauguration. | via Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
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LOOK: The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report found guns of the same serial number reappearing in crime scenes of drug war killings, suggesting that Philippine police planted evidence of guns
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Don't you just want to go back to the time na ang isyu lang natin ay matatalo nanaman ng UST ang UP sa UAAP? 🤪🤪 (No Ateneans allowed to reply to this tweet.)
A short explainer on how the sugar order fiasco could have been avoided.
ES Vic could have said, “The President doesn’t have a decision yet. Please hold the resolution.”
But he didn’t reply.
That they announced a new DOE Secretary only to backtrack hours later because of a conflict in the charter makes you wonder about the kind of staff work that goes on in the Palace.
JUST IN: International Criminal Court pre trial chamber AUTHORIZES an investigation into the Philippines, covering not only Duterte's war on drugs but also alleged Davao Death Squad killings from 2011 to 2016.
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Angeles asks “no other questions?” so I took the mic and began to say, “Atty Trixie…” to ask my question but she walked out of the podium then. I wanted to ask about the qualifications of Calida as COA chair given OSG and COA’s dispute re high allowances.
It was a 10yr journey for this mother of 7. This is her 3rd take but she says she isn't ashamed of it, and now she will finally have the license to practice law, which she has been involved with as paralegal to her lawyer, her husband of 25 years. This is Atty Ria Malaluan-Cruz.
Among the reasons I really wanted the Schengen was to visit Auschwitz, the world's constant reminder to never forget. Our guide said he does the job despite the pain to relive Holocaust because "I need to tell the story for those who could not." That will always stay with me.
We have our online platforms hostaged by revisionists, media whose sites blocked, franchise killed, and with closure order; books being pulled out for "anti-government" content and everywhere everyone are red-tagged. Welcome to the Philippines, feel the chill here.
JUST IN: Supreme Court, which is supposedly on a writing break, issues today - not an en banc day - a resolution requiring Comelec, Congress and Bongbong Marcos to comment on the elevated petition to cancel COC filed by
@TedTe
's group
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UST, it's 2024, and we've just gone through the Duterte administration of media repression. Let us take a photo for what it is, chill, and let your student orgs be.
The photo in question:
JOURN INSTRUCTOR RESIGNS AS TOMWEB ADVISER
BREAKING: The adviser of TomasinoWeb has submitted his resignation to the Office for Student Affairs (OSA), effective immediately.
In his resignation letter, journalism instructor Leo Laparan said the "recent turn of events has…
Ang akin lang naman eh sana mas maraming lalake ang naka recognize na "ay mansplaining pala 'yon" most of the time kasi hindi niyo gets eh. That's it that's the tweet
I've said this over and over again -- you prefer Vloggers and influencers now for your so-called unbiased content, but on our worst days as a nation, it's the journalists who will show up. Remember that.
Of the 197 accused in the 2009 Ampatuan massacre, 101 went on trial. In total, the prosecution presented 134 witnesses.The defense presented 165 witnesses. After 10 years, Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes hands down her verdict today
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In 2012, former senator Juan Ponce Enrile was visibly irked by Jessica Soho's question whether he had filed all his SALNs truthfully. "There's a limit to questions," Enrile said, saying he's been investigated but came out clean.
Later, Enrile was charged in PDAF scam.
Wanting to ask a question to the presidential candidate, here is how Marcos' media officer blocks my hand and my camera as multiple bodies are put on me even as I get close to asking a question.
Video from earlier. Flash demonstration right outside the auditorium where Marcos would speak. At this point, neither Marcos nor his delegation had arrived in the venue. The First Lady, Cabinet officials arrived much later, after security had made protesters leave.
“Mga kapatid na pulis, hindi kayo ang batas. Tagalingkod lang kayo ng batas. Hindi kayo inatasan, binihisan ng uniporme, inarmasan, at binabayaran mula sa buwis ng bayan para pumatay, kundi para magsilbi…” (3/5)
Rowan Gabito is an OFW in Kuwait who was laid off during the pandemic when her daughter Maria Patrice was just 3rd year in Ateneo de Manila Law School. Maria Patrice passed the Bar on her first take.
We're monitoring where Marcos is today, as candidates face KBP forum. Marcos spox Vic Rodriguez in intvw yesterday: "Basta meron kaming schedule. Pag merong sortie, nasasabihan naman kayo. But as to details I don't think I have the duty to disclose it to anyone."
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BREAKING: Leila De Lima is granted bail by a Muntinlupa court. If they can comply with the bail processes today, she can be free today after almost 7 years in detention
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Thankful for your recognition of my work, but praises go to my co-reporters who not only helped me as solidarity, but also did strong, defiant coverages. Our stories shaped each other's and in unseen ways, courage was infectious. We as a profession are not alright, but we can be.
We tried to interview Bongbong Marcos for the last time in this campaign, but his security was, as usual, very rough. Two of my female colleagues got pushed, as the people around him chant: "Protect BBM! Protect BBM!"
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Retired Justice Antonio Carpio hits back at President Duterte after saying in last night's speech he never promised he would retake West PH Sea: "There is a term for that - grand estafa or grand larceny. Making a false promise to get 12 million votes."
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NEW: On September 30, 2014, the government seized a Picasso Reclining Women VI from the Marcoses' San Juan home. What's it doing there in Imelda Marcos' home in recent photos? Will thread, and show court documents.
FACT CHECK: Bongbong Marcos told One News he had never seen gold. It's a different tune from records we obtained showing in 1990 he told Inquirer "only I know where [the gold] is and how to get to it" & in 2007 he told court trading gold was their source of wealth
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Ronnie Dayan is the latest to recant in the De Lima case, saying he was just coerced to make his testimony in Congress in 2016 claiming he received drug money from Kerwin Espinosa on De Lima's behalf
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Still not deep into TikTok, I still don't understand it; frankly still intimidated by it. Pero naiintindihan ko ang tawag ng panahon, at ayaw kong magising isang araw na balot ng pagsisisi na hindi ko sinubukan. Baby steps, for a fact-based world.
Sa normal na mundo, hindi nangyari ang anomalya sa Pharmally. Sa normal na mundo, gumulong na ang imbestigasyon sa labas ng Senado. Panoorin ang paliwanag ni Rappler justice reporter
@lianbuan
.
Basahin:
Earlier in London: A picket in front of a hotel where Senator Imee Marcos held an audience with Filipinos. Rallyists against the Marcoses and martial law gave out leaflets with a QR code that links to materials about the atrocities of the dictatorship of the president's father
BBM: I have never turned down an interview, I have never specified the subjects which we have to talk about
@newsdwight
: If we were to ask you, for instance, the conviction of your mother..
BBM: I misunderstood, not here and now, I'm here for filing
VP Leni Robredo on the Marcos camp reaction that the people who said they were paid to attend the Uniteam rally in Tarlac were planted by dilawan: "Grabe naman, sa lahat ba naman kami pa yung magbibigay, siya kaya yung may record na ganun hindi kami."
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who benefited the most from disinformation in the 2022 presidential polls, said on Monday, June 19, that “fake news should have no place in modern society.”
When the head of Quezon City’s Task Force Disiplina publicly posts about shooting to kill quarantine violators, he relinquishes the separation of his private and official life.
To paint a picture: You pay for a visa you might not get. They ask for bookings/insurance for a travel that may not happen. Even more insulting, services offer itineraries (i.e fake tickets) that centres accept. What is all this? A cottage industry bleeding the third world dry
Applying for visas is really a dehumanizing experience for the racial minority. Ofcourse, critics (and there are lots now against me) will say "she's so entitled!" If you're okay w/ still paying the price of colonialism, go ahead, but let me feel the rage of my weak passport.
Duterte will soon leave office, and he leaves behind a Supreme Court that "enabled the rise of an emboldened authoritarian" (Leonen dissent), "led to the realization of tyranny in its most dangerous form" (Caguioa dissent), and one that "abdicated its duty." (Jardeleza dissent)