In the meantime, given that President Trump has repeatedly lied about who started the war in Ukraine, (yes, it's Russia) here's an excerpt from a 2020 report from the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee, “the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election…by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin.” That effort was “part of a broader, sophisticated, and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in American politics and society…a vastly more complex and strategic assault on the United States than was initially understood…the latest installment in an increasingly brazen interference by the Kremlin on the citizens and democratic institutions of the United States.” It was “a sustained campaign of information warfare against the United States aimed at influencing how this nation’s citizens think about themselves, their government, and their fellow Americans.” (thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for reminding me to reread that). So the question, of course, is how has the Republican party revised history by backing the statements of President Trump? Why?

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There is still hope, after all.

Maria also spoke with Sui-Wee Lee, Southeast Asia bureau chief for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/world/asia/philippines-duterte-arrest-marcos.html

“This was justice, regardless of how we got here,” said Maria Ressa, the Nobel Prize-winning journalist who has long been a target of Mr. Duterte because her news website, Rappler, has investigated the drug war.

“Now, is there politics involved? There is always politics involved,” she added. “But it’s a reminder to the rest of the world that accountability comes for you sooner or later and that impunity doesn’t last forever.”

And recently, Amna Nawaz, the co-anchor of PBS Newshour, spoke with Maria about the parallels between the Philippines and the U.S. under President Trump for the series, On Democracy. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa-discusses-state-of-u-s-democracy

Every step of the week that was - from the time Rappler broke the story of the arrest warrant being issued (we broke it Saturday MNL time) to his trip to HK, return to Manila, his arrest at the airport, and the journey to the Hague https://www.rappler.com/philippines/updates-icc-warrant-interpol-rodrigo-duterte-return-manila-from-hong-kong/