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Is Hontiveros’ alleged PhilHealth mafia ties more Mocha fake news?

Posted on August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
Amrie Cruz

Here’s a hashtag that’s slowly gaining traction today: #ProtectSenatorRisa. Several cards made by the Superficial Gazette are now circulating online bearing the tag with information aiming to disprove allegations that…

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Dear DOH, a COVID database system error is not just a lil oopsie

Posted on August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
Amrie Cruz

It’s week two of our return to the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) and while we were all hoping against hope that we would be hearing some good news from…

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‘Mulan’ has a release date but I’m still sitting this one out

Posted on August 5, 2020August 6, 2020
Nadine Halili

After months of rescheduling due to the coronavirus, Disney has decided to ditch the conventional theater premieres and screen their live-action remake of “Mulan” on their streaming platform Disney+. However,…

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QC barangay passed a women-only ordinance that nobody wanted

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020
Zofiya Acosta

ICYMI, yesterday, Aug. 4, Barangay Old Balara in Quezon City posted an order allowing only women to get quarantine passes. “Ang bawat pamilya ay muling bibigyan ng QPass (quarantine pass)…

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If Metro Manila is a ‘living experiment’ then I’m a frustrated guinea pig

Posted on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020
Nadine Halili

On July 29, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque responded to a question about Metro Manila reverting back to modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) in an interview with CNN Philippines by saying…

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A list of arrests of activists and confiscations hours before #SONA2020

Posted on July 27, 2020
Zofiya Acosta

Today was the day of the fifth State of the Nation Address in which the president said, among other things, that he wanted to bring back the death penalty for…

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Pres. Duterte’s SONA 2020 WTF moments

Posted on July 27, 2020July 27, 2020
Amrie Cruz

If you were able to stick it out and listen to the entirety of President Rodrigo Duterte’s one hour and 40 minute-long 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA),…

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SONA 2020 takes from Sotto and Cayetano we wish we could unhear

Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020
Amrie Cruz

President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 27 is fast approaching and most of us are having a hard time imagining how it’s going to…

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Mika Salamanca’s explanation just doesn’t add up

Posted on July 23, 2020July 24, 2020
Lia delos Reyes

For a few days now, O‘ahu residents have been tweeting about how local YouTuber Mika Salamanca has been allegedly violating Hawaii’s 14-day mandatory quarantine policy for incoming tourists/returning residents. Just…

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The police are enlisting your tsismosang tita for COVID-19 contact tracing

Posted on July 22, 2020July 22, 2020
Nadine Halili

Hey, Upper East Siders (well, concerned people of the Philippines), Gossip Gi—err, Tsismosang Tita here, and I have the biggest news ever. In today’s pandemic news, I just heard that…

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Is Hontiveros’ alleged PhilHealth mafia ties more Mocha fake news?

Dear DOH, a COVID database system error is not just a lil oopsie

‘Mulan’ has a release date but I’m still sitting this one out

QC barangay passed a women-only ordinance that nobody wanted

If Metro Manila is a ‘living experiment’ then I’m a frustrated guinea pig

A list of arrests of activists and confiscations hours before #SONA2020

Pres. Duterte’s SONA 2020 WTF moments

SONA 2020 takes from Sotto and Cayetano we wish we could unhear

Mika Salamanca’s explanation just doesn’t add up

The police are enlisting your tsismosang tita for COVID-19 contact tracing

Trans women aren’t pretending and they don’t owe anyone disclosure

On #HijaAko and her triggers—a conversation with a sexual abuse survivor

Queer safe spaces in a post-pandemic world—what’s that going to look like?

Love is the place I call home

Mental health is political for this young Filipina and her global youth network

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