Oliva Pope, but corporate 👔 dying on weird, unpopular hills all the time 🍅 my personal yapping doesn’t reflect my employer’s or my mom’s
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Then again, why should a smart, beautiful boy pursue modest ambitions? (Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall")
This is such a clean, calming pubmat! Love the matte navy finish. So classy ✨
TODAY IS THE DAY!! 💙🗳️
Today, we have the chance to put our country on a better path and elect Senators who will fight for all Americans.
ALT Today is Election Day - make your voice heard. Scott Colom - Jon Ossoff - Mary Peltola - Sherrod Brown - Roy Cooper - James Talarico - Angie Nixon - Adam Hamilton - Chris Pappas - Troy Jackson - Josh Turek - Abdul El-Sayed - Annie Andrews
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About the Nuclear Deal in the Philippines
Word is that the US offered a $5B USD loan or loan support for a new reactor that would meet the national short-term objective of 1200 MW. That implies that another $5B would be needed to be raised by the Filipinos to build a large conventional reactor that might cost $10B total ($8,333/kW), a reasonable if slightly optimistic estimate.
I fully support US Ambassador Lipton in this mission but have some constructive criticism as to how he’s going about it. First, he’s acting quite Trumpian – find the dealmakers, flash some cash, and make a deal. Very American but he needs to realize that the oligarch business leaders he’s talking with are less than beloved by the broader population. The big four power producers, with about 60% of the electric market (Sam Miguel, First Gen, Aboitiz, and ACEN) have made for a concentrated market. Those are the companies that could step up to handle a nuke (along with Meralco) but that threatens even greater market concentration.
The National Power Corporation (NPC or Napocor) was a New Deal program created during the Commonwealth era using as its template the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). NPC was replaced with EPIRA in 2001 that made a “free market” for generation. That move is now blamed for the Philippines having the highest electric rates in ASEAN. Also the single NPC has been replaced with at least seven new agencies and players.
Amb. Lipton is not paying enough heed to the efforts in the PH Congress to make nuclear a public power project like a restored NPC in part to avoid further market concentration. The old fights in the US over private vs. public power (like TVA) were finally exhausted by the 1960s but are at the core of efforts to reform EPIRA and the dysfunctional market it has created.
Finally, there’s the problem of no nuclear regulator. President Marcos signed into law a new nuclear regulator (PhilAtom) but has yet to appoint its leaders or to otherwise stand up the agency. Without a viable applicant, one can hardly blame him. And who would commit to a leadership job when there is no work?
A grand gesture of support by the US would be to buy the Philippines a new building to house the agency, once the deal Lipton is brokering is a go.
I’ll post more as the more details of deal are revealed.
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Anyone who unironically participates in this regional tribalism is helping our enemies. We are all Filipinos, united by a shared national identity and connected by a rich Austronesian heritage, whose expansion from Taiwan reached our archipelago. Language shall not divide us.
This while ‘CEB/Bisaya vs others’ discourse is a clear product of the Duterte’s divisive and corrosive style of governance. This was never as big pre-Duterte but they literally inflamed this rhetoric to perpetuate themselves in power.
An MD from Columbia, PhD from Oxford. Doesn’t pander to intrigue - and best of all, dapper and fit (lol). We have no politician like Abdul-Sayed. Most of our elected officials are very average… there are probably more competent managers in a local MNC office.
If I were to be really honest, this comedy and improv challenge was a BOOT. None of y’all were funny - the jokes were shallow and clunky, the acting was shrill, and it just didn’t live up to the country’s rich newscasting tradition. It was painful to watch.
now lang nakakapagprocess nang maayos and in my world, it could’ve been a double win noh? andy killed the challenge too! @itsandycrocker #dragraceph
I feel like the #DragRacePH queens were just way in over their heads with this newscast improv challenge. The dialogues were too grating to listen to, the writing just outright sucked. It lacked the smarts and wit. Sadt
I wonder how Alan German will spin this for Sandro……
TOP BUDGET INSERTIONS IN PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS
These are the DPWH District Engineering Offices (DEOs) with the largest budget in projects that were added to the 2027 House General Appropriations Bill (HGAB), according to budget watchdogs People's Budget Coalition and BetterGov.PH.
Read this Explainers by GMA News to know more.
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=-UGxgERJ…
When I was working at a startup heading a business unit, an official from this very ‘august’ and revered institution in Manila shook my hand and told me I was ‘too young to head anything’. Shows how seniority is deeply ingrained in our bureaucracy.
First time to fly out of NAIA T2 in at least 7 years?? Wow - it looks and works so much better. Check-in was smooth and seamless.
Maybe Leni should run again after all. Maybe Leni can do what no other PH politician in history has done before - win in a second bid for the presidency. This is the era of comebacks - and Lula and Trump are two sides of the same coin.
A country ‘brainwashed to need tagalog validation’ girl are you fr? Tagalog is literally the basis of OUR national language, which you also speak. It is OURS to use, develop, and love. Stop being so small-minded and regionalistic.
This is actually outdated. Our new upper middle-income status corresponds to a higher poverty threshold of 8.3 USD per person per day. This is the threshold used by Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
MDS in ‘92
Roco in ‘98
Mar instead of Duterte
The #DragRacePH snatch game was awful. Only Merckz was bearable. Not sure what the judges were seeing in Bhorj. I love Bomba and wish Taylor was in the bottom instead. Andy was trying too hard. This season is becoming a snooze fest fast. 🥱
The more successful ‘mass’ movements in recent PH history have tended to center on/need urban, liberal, and middle-class support - a demographic that is as fickle and transactional as they come. Political sentiment ebbs as soon as some sort of catharsis is achieved.
It’s really ironic that the true post-EDSA golden era was PNoy’s. Reviled by the left, right, and China for their own nefarious agendas, PNoy was the only one who made more sensible choices for social, environmental, and diplomatic strategy.
China appears to have discovered something about Ferdinand Marcos Jr.: His administration may condemn Beijing's provocations, but its preference for dialogue leaves questions about what consequences China actually faces.
The Department of Foreign Affairs summoned Chinese Ambassador Jing Quan over remarks suggesting China could easily defeat the Philippines. The move was a formal diplomatic protest, intended to register Manila's objections while preserving channels for dialogue.
Malacañang, however, had already signaled that Marcos did not favor declaring the ambassador persona non grata.
Barely a day later, the Chinese Embassy was publicly telling Filipino lawmakers, “You are now on the list,” while separately rebuking Sen. Risa Hontiveros for seeking the ambassador's expulsion.
Imagine that. A foreign mission, operating on Philippine soil, openly antagonizing elected officials of its host country even after its ambassador had been summoned over provocative remarks.
Marcos looks weak not because he prefers diplomacy, but because his restraint appears to have done little to discourage further provocations.
Dialogue is not weakness. Diplomacy requires patience, restraint and the willingness to keep communication open even with an adversary. But dialogue without credible consequences risks becoming an invitation to further disrespect.
A president need not threaten war, expel every offending diplomat or manufacture a crisis to demonstrate authority. He must, however, establish boundaries that foreign representatives understand they cannot cross without consequences.
Instead, Malacañang has publicly indicated what Marcos would prefer not to do, even as Beijing's representatives continue to challenge Philippine officials.
Power is not merely possessing the authority to act. It is making others believe you are prepared to exercise it when necessary.
And right now, Beijing appears to have little reason to believe that provoking Marcos will carry a meaningful diplomatic price. | CM
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