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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Aside from my Facebook, you can keep track of my daily posts on the Duterte Impeachment in my blog ("Events Mode" category). www.quezon.ph/category/eve...

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today's conclusion of my 2 parts on the Republic at 80: The 40 year periods that led to the Three Old and the Three New that combined, have led to the ongoing fall of our present Republic.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Today, 1st of 2 parts on our Republic at 80: why we are the way we are, starting with the breakdown of national solidarity at the moment of independence.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My column today is on the Iglesia, the Palace, who blinks first, and what the INC really wants, and why.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My column today looks at contending schools of thought on constitutional texts: letter or spirit of the law, which is supreme?

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My column today is on culpability and the Tacloban tragedy.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My column today looks at the interesting paper by Cleve V. Arguelles et al. on the constituencies that emerged after the 2025 midterms: starting point of today's intramurals.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My column today is how all eyes will be on the Senate and what we've seen so far about leadership in it.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My column today looks at one idea getting closer to being, even as another idea is rapidly shaping up to make it obsolete. Can the Bangsamoro coexist with a Mindanawon super-identity?

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My column today looks at Mindanao and the rise of the Mindanawon identity: one that transcends historic ethnic, political, and religious divisions.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My column today looks at the spirit vs. the letter of the law: when can the constitution defeat itself? Take the senate for example and the chance it can no longer function.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My column today looks at majorities, minorities, and political risk: which is a guide to detecting if political principle is at play.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My column today's on the Senate, whether a new majority will be formed, and how if one isn't, it means the body's at an institutional dead end --or is it? My case for allowing jailed senators to participate in plenary and impeachment.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My column today looks beyond the tensions between senators and focuses instead on what the Blue Ribbon Committee being composed of suspects means.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My column today looks at trauma in the Senate --and how useful it could be, to some in the same coalition. A quarter century, a generation, is long enough for legislators to have no memory of how to handle danger.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My column today is on principle and politics in the case of the Senate and impeachment.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

My column's on how last week's Senate shenanigans began not yesterday, but last year, and even a quarter century ago.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My column today is on the dynamics of the new Senate majority.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My column today is how impeachment was made easy instead of being the instrument of last resort. Yet without anyone noticing, it has gained legitimacy because it's come to match the stricter requirements of previous charters.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My column today looks at the next chapter of the second impeachment saga.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My column today takes off from last time's reflection on political time, to reflect on strength --and weakness. When events combine, a picture emerges.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My column today on how body counts require an accounting because they aren't an intrinsic justification for what was done.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My column today looks at the affidavit presented to the House yesterday and why it goes beyond the usual unsubstantiated claims.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My column today looks at the next problem requiring cooperation and forward thinking: the climate going into next year.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

My column today looks at a quiet advantage big business and organized developers and homeowners have.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My column today is on politics and fandoms: unlike political parties globally in crisis, they are positive in orientation, self-organized and thus, self-activating, so primed for civic action.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My column today is on the Army--BTS' that is.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My column today is the President's dislike for drama and how fear of the public has abated among the political class.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My column today continues my series on the Spratleys and our Jeckyll-and-Hyde attitude to international matters: as a responsible member of the family of nations, and as buccaneering adventurers with imperial delusions.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Today begins a series on the Spratleys and our Jeckyll-and-Hyde attitude to international matters: as a responsible member of the family of nations, and as buccaneering adventurers with imperial delusions.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

My column today on how, the more you look at it, the more necessary and frantic the foiled Senate coup had to have been for those who attempted it. Will failure mean jail or getting off the hook, remains to be seen.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Today's column asks why Cabinet members are trying to hog the headlines when it leads to bigger problems for the more amateurish among them. There's a strategy at play, that's why.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My column today looks at the DICT again. Somehow one expects greater circumspection and deliberateness from an ICT-mandated organization.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Why communist leaders purge their generals

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My column today is on how what Congress and the public have failed to do for 30 years --amend the Constititution-- the Supreme Court has done repeatedly. This gave an opening for a Marcosian legal approach to impeachment: rules that exist to be circumvented.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

My column today reflects on Randy David's categorizing the administration as a "caretaker." I suggest it's not the first to be a tread-water kind of government.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

How Iran Crushed a Citizen Uprising With Lethal Force www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/w...

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How Iran Crushed a Citizen Uprising With Lethal Force

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My column today looks at the unexplainable: factors rationally irrelevant but actually important which must be factored in. Why even our politics is, as Nick Joaquin described things, "Tropical Baroque." opinion.inquirer.net/189156/when-...

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My column today looks at why the dynamics of running after corruption can be politically self-defeating and suggests having survived this long, the Palace may be confusing survival with victory.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

My column today is on the battleground to come: the Blue Ribbon Committee and public opinion on expectations.

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Today marks my first Monday column; henceforth my column will come out every Monday and Wednesday. Here I look at what we say about ourselves when it comes to corruption, according to this snapshot taken by SWS. opinion.inquirer.net/188947/corru...

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Diary of Rafael Palma Dec. 30, 1896: philippinediaryproject.com/1896/12/30/d...

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Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

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Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized

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