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Senator @risahontiveros may not be a lawyer, but she understands her mandate and respects the rules of the Senate. Meanwhile, some with legal backgrounds use their knowledge not to uphold the rules but to twist policies for political convenience. You do not need a law degree to understand integrity, accountability, and respect for institutions. ✊🏻

These are strange times. In all my years keeping track of PH politics, I would never imagine myself rooting for a Tito Sotto Senate Presidency, cheering for a Tulfo in the Senate, and agreeing with Migz Zubiri. but here we are.

In 2006 Risa Hontiveros faced off against cops while calling for the ouster of President Arroyo. This woman has courageously stood up for us her whole life despite the risk and despite the odds.

Ang Minority ay patuloy na maninindigan! #SolidBloc11 ✊🏼

WATCH: Minority senators walkout of the session hall as debates got heated on Sen. Marcoleta's motion to allow a senator to remotely join its sessions. | @MAgerINQ

Minority Senators walk out of plenary session after majority insists on discussion of rule amendment on electronic voting

Ipinanalo ng ✨ Minority Walkout ✨ ang Pilipinas ngayong araw. Maraming salamat, @migzzubiri, @iampinglacson, @risahontiveros, @kikopangilinan, @sotto_tito, @erwintulforeal, @Idolraffyishere, @WinGatchalian74, @jvejercito, @bamaquino, Lito Lapid!

JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SENATE MINORITY WALKOUT We strongly condemn what appears to be an attempt to rush a major change in the Senate Rules, especially when several members of the minority still wanted to speak and raise serious questions on the floor. Bakit kailangang madaliin? Bakit kailangang pigilan ang mga gustong magsalita? Bakit kailangang i-divide ang house kung marami pang senador ang nagtatanong tungkol sa proseso? Minamadali ba ang rule change na ito dahil gusto nilang maka boto si Senator Bato? At ngayong may mga ulat na may mga majority senators na maaaring arestuhin? We walked out because what happened on the floor looked less like orderly deliberation. The proposed rule change affects how senators may attend sessions, participate in proceedings and exercise their mandate through remote means, and such a measure should be opened to healthy public debate instead of being rushed by the tyranny of the majority. We have always welcomed healthy discussions on the floor, but this should mean allowing all members to be heard, not forcing the chamber to move at the speed preferred by the majority. At the time the motion was taken up, there was no duly constituted Committee on Rules and there was not even an elected Majority Leader who could properly guide a rules amendment through the regular process. How could there have been any action or discussion before the Committee on Rules when no Committee on Rules has been organized to date? With due respect, the answer that no Senate rule had been violated does not settle the matter, because the rules cannot be treated as a matter of convenience when the very process for amending them is under serious question. The timing raises a question that the public deserves to hear debated openly. Kaya pinili naming tumayo at iwan ang majority sa plenary. Kaya kami nagdesisyon to question the quorum and call for adjournment. If the proposal is truly defensible, then let it pass through the proper route. We owe it to the people who voted for us to do our mandate. This is why we want more time to discuss this further.

@_RK92 @xDcentric @NBA This is how it looks on mobile

@xDcentric @NBA Just went on site this morning. Now it's like this? Interesting.

Explain yourself @NBA NBA FINALS BOUND in the STORE.. KNICKS & THUNDER........ HUH?????????????????????????????????

It’s too consistent with OKC as a unit. This is something that they’re coached to do. Any contact you don’t like? Fall. Make a bad play? Fall. Defender too close? Fall. Get boxed out? Fall. No one touches you? Fall. Get hit in the chest? Hold your neck and lay on the floor.

NBC deploys up to 40 cameras for a single NBA playoff game. Every operator needs to identify players from behind, at full sprint, in real-time. That headshot grid on the monitor is how the camera operator knows who they're tracking when the director calls "iso Wemby" through their headset. They get maybe two seconds to find him, lock on, and deliver a broadcast-quality shot for 4 million viewers. The production behind a conference finals game runs deeper than people realize. Six hard cameras, six handhelds, four robotic rigs, a Steadicam, and a cable cam, all feeding a control truck where a director cuts between feeds live. The All-Star Game this year required seven mobile production units processing 200+ simultaneous video signals. Tracking cameras in the rafters capture every player's position 25 times per second. 72,000 data points per game, processed live alongside the broadcast work to generate the replays and overlays you take for granted. A Hollywood film crew shoots maybe 2-5 minutes of usable footage per day. An NBA broadcast team delivers 48 minutes of live, unscripted, multi-camera footage as a finished product in real-time. Every game. 82 times a season. Plus playoffs. The person in this video will work the entire game tracking players at full speed, and nobody watching will think about them once.

San Antonio libraries have launched a "Read Like Wemby" campaign featuring Victor Wembanyama’s favorite fantasy and sci-fi books. Since launching, nearly 160 books have been checked out or put on hold, and local kids are taking photos with life-sized Wemby cutouts. (Via @MirinFader)

So apparently that Wemby and the nuns concept campaign for @Nike comes from Asher (📸 Insta: @asherhyde), a 20-year-old design student from the a University of Southern California. The budding artist shares snippets of his life and samples of his work with over 90K followers and he's got some killer NBA and Wemby ad concepts.

Happy Miracle Day to the great @seanelliott_32

SGA is turning kids into floppers Wemby is turning them into readers

When you consider that both of Timmy’s parents have passed, this just gets extra heartwarming imho.

‘SANA DARATING ‘YUNG PANAHON NA MAPALITAN AT MAWALA NA ‘YUNG MGA GANIYANG KLASENG SENADOR’ Nagbahagi ng reaksyon si dating senador Sonny Trillanes kasunod ng nangyaring diskurso sa sesyon ng Senado kaugnay sa video presentation ni Sen. Imee Marcos tungkol sa umano’y ongoing efforts para sa charter change. Matapang na giit ni Trillanes sa “Sa Totoo Lang” ng One PH, “binalahura” ng Duterte senators ang mga institusyon, hindi lamang ang Senado. “Sanay kasi sila na ‘yung buong democratic institutions, binabalahura. Noong pumasok sila diyan simula noong 2019, ganoon na. Pababa na nang pababa ‘yung standards kasi nasanay sila kay Digong,” sabi niya.

San Antonio libraries have launched a “Read Like Wemby” campaign, featuring Victor Wembanyama’s favorite fantasy and sci-fi books, per @MirinFader. Children can read books that their favorite player reads. Since the launch, nearly 160 books have been checked out or put on hold. That’s awesome 🙏

Spurs fans are ruthless — they gave SGA flop scores last night 💀 (via @sam_amick, h/t @zsid2026)