WHY WAS FORMER PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT DUTERTE ARRESTED BY THE ICC?

Because his regime extrajudicially killed thousands of Filipinos.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE KILLINGS THROUGH THESE LINKS AND QR CODES. #FightFakeNews #Philippines

Happy to talk with @mariaressa.bsky.social Ressa about disinformation and the future of journalism. That conversation is a cover story in the maiden issue of @RollingStone Philippines, out tomorrow.

Huwag na po natin ilihis ang usapan.
Ayaw na laina ang hisgutanan.
Let's not divert the issue.

The arrest and incarceration of Rodrigo Duterte by the ICC in the Hague is about the merciless killing by his regime of thousands and thousands of Filipinos.

Curtis Yarvin, the brains behind all this Trump-Musk mayhem.

He thinks democracy is bad, that it is beyond fixing, that people need to get over their dictator-phobia, that a monarch-like leader like Trump is the way to go.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-interview.html

Yo, @news.abs-cbn.com! Why are your old stories being pushed on Google News as though they’re recent? This has been this way in the past several months.

I’ve watched “Conclave” and I’m convinced the reason given by the filmmakers to turn the character of Filipino cardinal Vincent Benitez into a Mexican— that they couldn’t find a suitable Filipino actor — is nonsense. John Arcilla would have been perfect for the role.

For work-related posts (human rights and related issues in the Philippines), check out my main BlueSky account @carlosconde.com.

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I’ve been stuck here the past two days. Only five points to genius. 😅 #NYTSpellingBee

Will post nothing but shitposts like this on Facebook from now.
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Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg lwas actually one of the Winklevii triplets? The two better-looking ones took pity on Mark because he was spending an awful amount of time inside his bedroom playing with god knows

Na-offend ko yata ang core audience ng @bilyonaryo_ph. 😂

Thanks, Bilyonaryo, for having me. 🙏🏽

Full interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYBy...

Rappler’s Pia Ranada Robles is this year’s Marshal McLuhan fellow. Congrats, Pia! 👏👏👏 #JVOJS2024

For one, he says the task force will end the practice by his predecessors to red-tag journalists. Red-tagging puts journalists and activists in danger.

The second episode of our podcast, #TheWeekendPH, drops at 7 tonight on Youtube at @carloshconde.

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In EP 2 of The Weekend, Inday and Caloy talk about the weather (!), Inday's art therapy and, of course, the showdown at the quadcomm hearings in Congress (at 08:04) between ex-president Rodrigo

This is what a (young) calamansi tree looks like in the Philippines. We use the fruit for juicing and on certain Filipino dishes. One such dish, kinilaw (fish ceviche), won't be the same without it. It is much more popular than lemon and lime so calamansi is also the de facto substitute for either.