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  • Pa. nuns, falsely charged with election fraud, win major award for political courage

    08/23/2025 6:07:34 AM PDT · by lightman · 26 replies
    Pennlive ^ | 23 August A.D. 2025 | Amy Worden
    The Benedictine Sisters of Erie, falsely charged with election fraud ahead of the 2024 election, are the recipients of a prestigious national award for political courage. The nuns are the 2025 winners of the Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award from the National Association of Secretaries of State. Other recipients of the award include President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and civil rights activist Rosa Parks. “The good Sisters earned this award by courageously challenging political disinformation when they were targeted with false charges of voter fraud just before the 2024 election,” said Pennsylvania Secretary of...
  • 'It doesn't stick to the rules': The reason Sinners has become a true box-office sensation

    05/03/2025 2:25:27 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 20 replies
    BBC ^ | Apr 2025 | Nicholas Barber
    After great reviews and buzz, Ryan Coogler's vampire film had an extraordinary second weekend at the box office. It's a victory for a wholly original big-budget film in a cinema landscape dominated by familiar franchises. …Featuring Michael B Jordan as a pair of twins defending their juke joint from vampires, Sinners is a horror film – but it's also a blues musical, a gangster thriller and a deeply-researched period drama about Mississippi in the 1930s. It doesn't stick to the rules of one particular genre, and it isn't based on existing intellectual property (IP), so audiences don't come to it...
  • 2024 Matcha Shortage: What Went Wrong?

    12/16/2024 5:20:35 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    Forbes ^ | Zoryana Zagorodnya
    As I was browsing through my social media feed this morning, enjoying my homemade matcha latte, I stumbled upon a concerning headline about the very thing I was consuming: A matcha shortage is currently affecting Japan. Naturally, this sent me down the matcha “rabbit hole” to explore the underlying causes of this global shortage. Matcha is a finely ground powder made from specially cultivated green tea leaves. It has a vibrant green colour and a higher caffeine content, making it a healthy alternative to coffee. Its popularity is on the rise as the global matcha market is expected to grow...