Ross Tugade
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Ross Tugade
@rosselle.bsky.social
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Filipino lawyer and writer. PhD researcher, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice.
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A Quezon (2025) review by way of three book titles:

- The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State (Leia Castañeda Anastacio)
- Massacre in the Clouds (Kim Wagner)
- Everything is Tuberculosis (John Green)

Screening in some HOYTS cinemas!!
Many thanks to @szarmsky.bsky.social and @alonso-gd.bsky.social for including this essay in this year’s series.
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We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
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Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
www.nytimes.com
In the Philippines, we mostly call aunts “tita” and this includes even your parent’s friends. Anyway this is Filipina drag artist Tita Baby. She is your tita now.
I hope I did justice to it in the essay!!
Two water-hungry abominations we ought to despise: AI data centers and golf courses. I will not explain
Gonna watch Quezon on Friday so I can join the Discourse
Exactly one angry netizen complaining about the 1935 Constitution in the comments section of a review of “Quezon” (in Mr Avanceña’s wall no less). Legal transfers bleeding out into Facebook thanks to Jerrold Tarog’s film, I guess??
Someone has to write how increasingly corny the Philippine Bar Exams have become. The 2026 Bar chair’s special letter to examinees took it up a notch by sounding like an Alpha Male motivational script.
Spring is shaping to be me versus wattle and my inner saboteur.
Nothing like a rawdogged 6km afternoon walk under the sun to make me realise a key concept I overlooked in my project. I call this the idiot walk
Encountering truly devastating grief four months into the PhD—TWICE—not in my bingo card but it is life, which must go on, and the best way to honor the people I lost is to just believe in me and make the distance make sense
The only Rodrigo to whom Ninoy’s quote applies on the Filipino worth dying for. The other Rodrigo, let us make sure he never returns.
One of the few times I will invoke that Filipino nationalist card is to defend our pop girlie Olivia Rodrigo. I have claws out.
Extracting every last centavo from Filipinos whom they see as disposable. BILLIONS of cash stacked on top of each other as spoils for politicians. I hate this so much
This is probably the biggest PH corruption scandal I have seen in recent memory. This is just one district, one province. They build poor infra on purpose to rake in BILLIONS. Meanwhile, it is so common now for Pinoys to die and lose homes in floods.

www.rappler.com/philippines/...
'All Bulacan 1st District projects from 2019 to 2025 are substandard' – Brice Hernandez
(1st UPDATE) On average, only 30% to 50% of the contract amount actually goes to the construction of the project
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Starting Duterte’s presidential campaign to the present, ‘DDS’ has earned a certain currency. To be a ‘proud DDS’ is to signal loyalty to the President and his violent vision. Now ‘DDS’ appears in the charges to refer to the perp group. It’s only apt. After all, DDS is really ‘Davao Death Squad.’
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📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

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