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  🚨 “Trillion-Peso Rage”: Manila Erupts Over Flood-Control Corruption Scandal 😡🚧   The streets shook before the thunderclouds did. Did Manila just trigger the biggest anti-corruption reckoning of the decade, or will this outrage be archived like all the others until the next storm drowns us again? Manila woke up to a chorus of whistles, placards, and boiling anger as thousands of Filipinos flooded key sites to denounce a ballooning corruption scandal tied to flood-control projects that were supposed to protect the public from disasters. The protests gathered at Luneta and the People Power corridor along EDSA, with police on heightened alert. The rallying cry was blunt and universal: jail them, now. The energy on the ground felt like a collective audit of the whole system, not just a single agency. Reports throughout the day confirmed the scale and stakes, from the crowd counts to the government’s scramble to contain the fallout. Let’s get the receipts out first. The scandal...

  7-Eleven’s Barong Eco Bag Is A Whole Personality Now 🌱✨ The first time I saw the Barong-inspired eco bag at 7-Eleven, I had that dramatic rom-com moment where time slows down and the fluorescent store lights turn into a spotlight. Is it wild to feel seen by a tote bag? Maybe. But this one is giving Filipino pride, weekday practicality, and soft-serve nostalgia in one cute carry. So yes, I bought it. And yes, I am about to overshare about a reusable bag like it’s a crush who DM’d back. Let’s set the scene. You walk into your neighborhood 7-Eleven to grab ice, instant noodles, and that emergency chocnut you swear is for a friend. Right by the counter sits a row of eco bags dressed like they’re clocking in for duty: the 7-Eleven Uniform, the Baro, and the Barong Tagalog variant. The Barong one is the main character. The design nods to the classic formalwear Filipinos pull out for graduations, weddings, and moments we want to photograph forever. On fabric, the embroidery pattern is...

  America’s “Inflection Point” 🧨 After Kirk’s Killing: Obama Calls Out the Rush To Blame 💥 Is this the moment American politics finally admits it has a violence problem, or are we going to keep pointing fingers until the next headline turns into a hashtag and a funeral? Former President Barack Obama just told a crowd in Erie, Pennsylvania that the United States is “at an inflection point,” and he didn’t say it for drama. He said it after a week where the country watched conservative activist Charlie Kirk get gunned down at a public event, and where leaders in Minnesota were attacked in their homes, leaving former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband dead and a state senator and his wife fighting for their lives. Obama’s message was simple and uncomfortable: political violence is not new, it is fundamentally anti-democratic, and our reflex to instantly pick an enemy is turning grief into gasoline. Obama’s words landed because they were aimed at a culture that now t...