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Continue reading →: “Ako ’To, Ading—Pass the Shabu and the DNA Kit”The Marcos Sibling Smackdown Goes Full Ipa-Tulfo Mo in Action By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 25, 2025 I. The Shakespearian Prologue Imagine a stage soaked in monsoon rain, the ghosts of Martial Law howling in the rafters, and two heirs to a throne built on blood and ill-gotten…
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Continue reading →: JUNTA FEELERS IN LACSON’S INBOX, P100-BILLION KICKBACKS IN THE BUDGET, AND IMEE SPILLING TEA HOTTER THAN MAYON LAVAPhilippine politics is canceled. Please wait for the reboot in 2028… or next month, who knows anymore. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 25, 2025 IS THERE Really a “Coordinated, Orchestrated, and Calibrated” Plot to Oust BBM, or Is This Just Another Episode of Pamilya Marcos: The Teleserye from…
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Continue reading →: Constitutional Comedy Hour: Dynasties Dancing Around Article II for 38 Years of Uninterrupted ShenanigansFamily Feudalism Follies: 38 Years of Dodging the Dynasty Ban with Dazzling Deception Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 25, 2025 I. Another Senate Bill, Another Funeral March: Risa’s SB 1548 Joins the Corpse Parade Thirty-eight years.That is how long Article II, Section 26 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution has…
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Continue reading →: “Bend the Law”? Cute. Marcoleta Just Bent the Constitution into a PretzelWhen Grandstanding Met the Power of the Purse and the Constitution Wept By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 24, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, grab your popcorn and your Constitutions. Tonight we watch a neophyte senator turn a ₱6.5-billion budget hearing into his personal episode…
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Continue reading →: Remulla, Romualdez, and the Call That EchoesRecusal: The Only Way to Silence the Echo By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 23, 2025 THERE are days when Philippine politics hands us a moment so delicate that even the usual fire-and-brimstone feels out of place. Last Thursday was one of those days. In a public law forum,…
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Continue reading →: Dong Gonzales and the ₱611 Million Family Heist: When “Cleared” Means “Not Caught… Yet”How Daddy’s Pork Barrel Became the Kids’ College Fund (and Mansion Fund, and Yacht Fund) By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 23, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, ladies and gentlemen of this miserable republic, gather ’round the cave fire because the stench coming out of Pampanga’s 3rd District is making even…
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Continue reading →: The Cousin SacrificeWalang Kamag-anak, Walang Kaibigan — Except When Ratings Are Sinking By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — November 22, 2025 Or how President Marcos Jr. threw his first cousin under the flood-control bus to save his own sinking approval ratings Mga ka-kweba, grab your coffee and your blood-pressure meds.Tonight we just…
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Continue reading →: “HINDI AKO NAG-RESIGN!”The Executive Secretary Screams from the Grave of His Own Political Funeral By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — November 22, 2025 1. The Resignation That Wasn’t: A Love Story in Two Contrasting Scripts Malacañang: “He stepped down out of delicadeza. So noble. So graceful. So very voluntary.”Lucas Bersamin, live on…
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Continue reading →: P135 M from a Dead General? Cute. Now Forfeiture the Billions That Turn Metro Manila into Venice Every July.”The Supreme Court just proved death is no escape. Flood-control thieves, your fake dikes won’t save you either. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 22, 2025 The General Who Died Rich and the Heirs Who Thought Death Was a Receipt Let’s do the math first, because apparently the Ligot…
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Continue reading →: PDIC’s P107 Billion ‘Idle Funds’? Your Life Savings Just Got Demoted to Government Petty CashBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 21, 2025 3:00 a.m.The country is asleep. Vault label:“In Case Banks Fail, Save Depositors” Thieves:DOF + PDIC(in government barong, not balaclavas; way scarier) Loot:YOUR P107.23 billion Official excuse:“It was idle.” Translation:Your fire extinguisher was idle,so we sold it to fund another overpriced bridge…






