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Naga City, Philippines • August 2012. Jesse Robredo Day: How a Mayor's Slippers Became the Philippines' Measure of Honest Government. jesse robredo, masbate plane crash, dilg secretary, tsinelas leadership, naga city people's council, ramon magsaysay award, republic act 10669, jesse robredo day, philippine good governance, fil-am civic engagement. PHILIPPINE HISTORY • NAGA CITY • AUGUST 2012 Jesse Robredo Day: How a Mayor's Slippers Became the Philippines' Measure of Honest Government On August 18, 2012, a plane crash off Masbate killed Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. Three years later, on the same date, Congress turned his life into permanent law — Jesse Robredo Day. PinoyBuilt illustration — Jesse Robredo's tsinelas leadership, remembered every August 18. At around 4:30 in the afternoon on August 18, 2012, a small Piper Seneca carrying Interior and Local Governmen...

Maraming Salamat to the UC Berkeley Pilipinx American Alliance! We’d like to give a big thank you to the UC Berkeley Pilipinx American Alliance (PAA) for following @PinoyBuilt on Instagram! Your support helps us continue to connect Filipino Americans — from students and alumni to creatives and professionals across the U.S. As a Filipino-founded media project, PinoyBuilt celebrates stories of identity, heritage, and community. We’re inspired by organizations like PAA that embody bayanihan — unity, cultural pride, and leadership within the Filipino American community. 📸 Flashback Feature: Friendship Games 37 Here’s a throwback to Friendship Games 37 , held on October 22, 2022 at California State University, Fullerton — a celebration of friendship, culture, and school spirit that continues to unite Filipino American students across generations. UC Berkeley’s PAA proudly represented the Bay Area with energy and pride! 📍 UC Berkeley PAA at Friendship Games 37, C...

Thank you President-elect Joe Biden for your leadership! President-elect Biden addresses the nation: https://t.co/BXM3SZK25R — Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) January 6, 2021 I totally agree with Dan Rather's tweet. All of this was predictable. It was predicted. And the lasting shame of history will be on all those who refused to act out of cowardice, ambition, or their own allegiance to an authoritarian movement. All of this was predictable. It was predicted. And the lasting shame of history will be on all those who refused to act out of cowardice, ambition, or their own allegiance to an authoritarian movement. — Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 6, 2021

There really is a book 'The Useful Idiot' on Donald Trump! A pandemic never occurred to them. The idea that Donald Trump would ever be required to sit still, pay attention and make rational decisions that would determine whether hundreds of thousands of Americans would live or die not once crossed the minds of those who put him into the Oval Office. For whatever reason, even as they watched the noise and chaos and nonsense generated by candidate Donald Trump for a full year and a half, the consequences of a real crisis requiring real leadership actually happening on the watch of a President Donald Trump never really dawned on them. useful idiot: noun:  a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda Three and a half years later, here we are. Approaching 200,000 dead Americans and counting, with a president who grew bored of the crisis months ago. This after the racial and ethnic divisions Trump has enflamed, th...