We beg to differ.
Did former presidential legal adviser and lawyer Sal Panelo just admit vice president Sara Duterte’s presidential bid is a no go? He might as well have said it outright. You can pretty much line up everything he has said about the impeachment of vice president Duterte with his latest statement in the Philippine Star and…
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Living with undiagnosed ADHD means existing in a perpetual state of DIY neuro-engineering. Without access to formal diagnostic pathways or medical guidance, I have had to turn my life into a living laboratory. I constructed a strict routine just to function and maintain baseline productivity. Every habit, meal, and supplement in my daily regimen is…
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When Vice President Sara Duterte follows her father’s playbook by exploiting the word adik to score political low blows against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., she isn’t just engaging in political theater. She is weaponizing a slur that inflicts profound psychological harm on millions of Filipinos living with undiagnosed and untreated neurodivergent conditions. The intense shame…
Few people talk about how the stigmatization of addiction and the bloody Duterte drug war exacerbated the suffering of ten million Filipinos. It would be great if the arrest and detention of former President Rodrigo Duterte magically ended their daily struggles. But their misery continues. Duterte characterized drug users as violent beasts who ought to…
(Note: I am an undiagnosed ADHDer dealing with the challenges of being unmedicated. This is for everyone living with ADHD and other ND. God bless us all! Also, I had to write this with Gemini, it is based on a very long conversation that I asked it to organize into an article. Why? Because I…
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Getting off the Grab car I took from a lunch meeting with a client at Mario’s on Morato, I looked up at the ashen sky wondering if it would rain buckets again or if it would just hang there like some inutile government functionary waiting to cash out on a measly retirement check. The ride…
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Alex Eala is the long-overdue “hero” Filipinos needed. She has been criticised as being a “nepo baby” who had more opportunity than most to jumpstart her spectacular rise to international stardom; a reference to her privileged upbringing by her affluent parents, her studying in elite Philippine private schools and, all that, before finally spending her…
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In his citation to the rising tennis star on receiving her in Malacanang on the 13th July, Philippine President Bongbong Marcos was on point here… You have brought such pride to the Philippines, to the Filipinos, not only because of your success, but also because of the grace with which you handle that success. Because…
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