Someone has to be made accountable for Bato’s escape.
No less than the DILG Secretary and PNP Chief entered the senate building last night to secure the senators.
The public was assured last night Bato was in the “5th foor, in his room, resting”. Bato’s lawyer showed a video last night of Bato supposedly in the senate.
The senate building should’ve been secured last night - no one in, no one out.
We need answers. How did Bato escape? Who helped him?
A @meralco customer vented on social media after her electric bill unexpectedly jumped to ₱7,000 from her usual ₱700, despite minimal usage. She said her household only uses two electric fans, and her television has been broken for three years, yet her electricity charges surged, calling out the government’s failure to protect ordinary families from these unreasonable cost increases.
Saying she has five children to provide for, she also criticized the government, lamenting how she is ineligible for 4Ps, which she described as inaccessible. Despite meeting the requirements—having children in school, ensuring vaccinations and following health protocols—she continues to be excluded from the program. The video went viral amid increasing calls for reforms in how electricity charges are applied to consumers, especially amid rising costs.
Nahuli na si Zaldy Co.
He is now detained in Prague after crossing into the Czech Republic without proper documentation and is currently in the custody of Czech authorities.
We are in close coordination with the Czech government to ensure that all legal processes are followed and to arrange for his return to the Philippines at the soonest possible time.
We will keep the public informed as developments unfold.
CYNTHIA GOES BERSERK
Former Sen. Cynthia Villar angrily accosted the security personnel of BF Resort Village in Las Piñas City over a new traffic plan, causing traffic in the area during the rush hour chaos.
A viral video shows a furious Villar confronting the village security staff enforcing lane changes near her home, disrupting the flow of vehicles designed to ease the school traffic congestion.
The feud between Villar and the subdivision homeowners association has simmered since 2022 over neighborhood developments.
MARKET RECAP 📉 What a wild and crazy day, the S&P 500 fell 0.5% and the Nasdaq fell 1.7%, as tech continues to take big losses. The S&P 500 has lost around $1 TRILLION in market cap over the past week 😳
What the heck is going on?!? Let’s talk about it 🗣️
US forces seized a Russia-flagged ship in the north Atlantic that’s been at the center of a dramatic sea chase across the ocean, an aggressive expansion of its blockade of sanctioned vessels going to and from Venezuela bloom.bg/44UNCZC
Inaresto ng mga tauhan ng PNP si Retired General Romeo Poquiz ngayong araw, January 5, 2026.
Inaresto si Ret. Gen. Poquiz kaugnay sa kasong inciting to sedition matapos ang kaniyang pakikilahok sa mga protesta laban sa katiwalian na ginanap noong Nobyembre 17 at 18 sa Quezon City.
Ayon kay Poquiz, isa itong panggigipit, pangha-harass at pananakot sa mga mamahayang nagpapahayag ng damdamin sa matinding korapsyon sa bansa.
COURTESY: Ariel Fernandez/GMA Integrated News stringer
𝗔𝗞𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗡𝗦 𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗭𝗨𝗘𝗟𝗔
Akbayan Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the Trump regime’s unilateral and blatant military attack on Venezuela, including the removal of its top leader. This act constitutes a direct assault on Venezuela’s sovereignty and on the people’s right to self-determination, and is a clear violation of the United Nations Charter and international law.
This violation is further compounded by Donald Trump’s declaration that his regime will now “run” Venezuela and seize control of its oil reserves. Such pronouncements amount to nothing less than a total invasion of a sovereign nation-state and the plunder of its resources.
To justify this aggression, Trump asserts that the military action was undertaken in self-defense and in support of democratic regime change for the benefit of the Venezuelan people. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rather than advancing democracy, this attack deepens regional instability. Rather than promoting accountability, it encourages impunity, emboldening other powerful nation-states to bypass multilateral institutions whenever convenient and to invade weaker countries at will. In doing so, Trump ushers in a new world order where geopolitical disputes are settled not through international law, but through brute force.
We are not unfamiliar with the allegations of corruption, malgovernance, authoritarianism, economic hardship, and human rights abuses under Nicolás Maduro. These concerns are not without basis. Nevertheless, effecting change in Venezuela, and determining the means by which such change occurs, is ultimately a decision for the sovereign Venezuelan people to make. It is not for the United States, or any external power, to dictate the future of another nation. The proper role of democracy-respecting countries is to stand in solidarity with oppressed peoples as they struggle for justice, freedom, and democracy on their own terms. When stronger nations impose their will on weaker ones, that is not democracy, it is tyranny.
As such, Akbayan stands firmly with the people of Venezuela in their fight for justice, freedom, human rights, sovereignty, and democracy. We call on the Trump regime to abandon all plans to illegally run Venezuela, cease all its hostile actions, and to withdraw all its military forces and assets from the country and the wider region.
Finally, we call on the American working people to rise up against Trump’s actions. One of Trump’s electoral promises to the US public was to end wars. He has not only reneged on that promise, he has betrayed the American people. We therefore urge them to join the global community in condemning this attack and to send an unmistakable message that democracy cannot be imposed by force, it must be built by the people themselves.
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