It is quite disgusting to see and hear the vice president either ranting against the government or trying to be cute with her remarks and body language to endear herself to her audience, speaking spontaneously, oftentimes blabbering, with empty rhetoric without offering doable solutions to problems.
In the event the three judges of pre-trial Chamber 1 will reject the interim release, the Dutertes have only themselves to blame. It is a very sick family of bullies and persecutors. They know no other game but power for themselves. At our expense. That is why unlike the people of Davao city, we see no end in the need to hold them accountable.
The youth, which is the target of the tobacco industry's so-called novel products, is also being tapped by health advocates to be their partners in the anti-tobacco campaign.
When Alice Guo rolled her eyes in Congress, a wave of TikTok “fan accounts” turned that moment into “napindot na si anger”—and helped recast her image just as she faced serious allegations.
The month of May recorded the least number of state- related cases of violence –so far in 2025- with a total of 45 reported incidents (18 killings and 27 injuries), monthly monitoring of Sandatahang Dahas showed. The biggest factor in the incidents of violence, however, was the May 12 elections with Mindanao as the most volatile area.
Facebook users circulated an AI-generated clip of airstrikes that caused explosions and infrastructure damage in Iran amid the country’s escalating conflict with Israel.
The video of a student calling VP Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial as “selective justice” carried a watermark of Veo, an AI video generation tool by Google.
In 2015, GMA News reported that Sigfrid Fortun’s acceptance fee is P20 million per case. If that is true, we can already envisage the bottomless pit of money that the Dutertes have. Remember that for the ICC case of Rodrigo Duterte, the family is not being impoverished by Nicolas Kaufman’s legal fees of P2,590,960 per month (Eu40,000). They have asked the International Criminal Court to help them cover the legal fees of the Kaufman team’s five lawyers.
In the regular Senate sessions and during the initial session of the impeachment court last week, we saw not only a lack of decorum among the legislators but, worse, a mockery of the impeachment proceedings.
What is clear in the statements of these senators, who are holding very powerful positions in the chamber, is that they selectively use the law to spare Sara Duterte from being held accountable for her misdeeds.
