A UBJP supporter clears the way inside the jampacked Binidayan gym for the entry of MILF chair and former BARMM interim Chief Minister Ahod ‘Al Haj Murad’ Ebrahim, the UBJP’s number 1 nominee, for the party’s opening campaign rally on Monday (3 August 2026) in vote-richest Lanao del Sur province. MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews / August 3) – And in all my years inside classrooms, I am aware that the blackboard is almost never as innocent-looking as it appears. A teacher cites a date, a name, maybe a definition. Students copy.
Roderick Wamil, former state auditor of the COA – Intelligence and Confidential Funds Office, giving his testimony regarding the Office of the Vice President’s failure to provide supporting documents for its use of confidential funds. Screenshot from the Senate’s Youtube livestream Monday, 3 August 2026.
On Day Ten of the impeachment trial, Representative Leila de Lima rose to open the funds case. The court cut her short, and that troubled me. I write this from Mindanao, watching closely. Sara Duterte rose from Davao City politics.
Lawyer Lorna Kapunan, counsel for the prosecution panel, during Monday’s, 3 August 2026, Impeachment Trial of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte. Screenshot from the Philippine Senate’s YouTube livestream.
