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Opinion | Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims In Duterte’s Philippines, due process was not a right, it was a privilege that was not extended to the victims of his drug war.

"Juan was a good pa, [Cejhay] told me. [He] used to fight with his sisters over who got to sleep closest to Juan... He wants people to know what his father was like. He wants people to know that Rodrigo Duterte killed the best father in the world."

the headline summarizes the unfairness of it all.

25.03.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Filipino Women 'Virtually Control' the Local Economy Through Sari-Sari Stores, Study Finds According to Packworks’ business intelligence tool Sari IQ, 75 percent of sari-sari stores in the country are owned by women.

an expansion of this article could explore debt, how a mother can borrow from these stores to immediately put food on the table. it provides a platform for community kinkeeping: this family is in need, that family is rising, etc. i.e. the sari-sari store owner as a community pillar

11.03.2025 05:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anora's American Dream nationalist fairytales, hetero-optimism, trad wives, and Anora as final girl

a wonderful essay on anora and her tragedy as a modern fairytale – what happens after ever after?

"[S]she’s not an idiot: she’s just trying to get the best deal in a world where few deals are offered to her."

07.03.2025 01:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

the introduction to a series of essays about what makes modern life possible, or at least that's what i assume since the supporting essays are paywalled and i can't afford the subscription rn

18.02.2025 04:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

⸺ thread of articles read in 2025 ₊˚⊹♡

18.02.2025 03:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0