Sarah Whitmire 🖖

My goal was to finish, so all things considered, it went really great! I’m definitely in the slow runner camp, but resisted the *strong* urge to start too fast, and actually managed to enjoy most of the day.

My splits for the nerds 🤓

Screenshot of the Strava app (link in post)

Side profile shot of me running at the 24-mile mark

Positively beautiful day for a little run around D.C. 😂 strava.app.link/mC1OVjA8MXb

Ugh I hope so, too! I have resolved to run 26.2 that day regardless, but I’d sure prefer to suffer alongside 50k other people 😂

The government shutdown is putting D.C.-area races in jeopardy Organizers of the Army Ten-Miler and the Marine Corps Marathon said the government shutdown could affect their abilities to proceed with race day.

This is fine... us marathon folks have only been training since June... this is fine 🙃

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

#goals www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Screenshot of a Gemini chat, the prompt asks it to extract links from email HTML, Gemini responds with "That's a lot of encoded HTML!"

I know, Gemini, that's why you're doing it instead of me 😂

Screenshot of a Google AI Overview "doing the math" on number of press releases sent daily, using a 10,000 figure for press releases sent monthly. It "calculated" a 1,000+ daily average.

Today in AI math 😂

Okay some of these are VERY funny

Overhead shot of the Kennedy Center from a plane

The Lincoln Memorial seen overhead from behind

The Washington Monument seen from a plane over the Potomac river

The Jefferson Memorial seen from a plane

Quite pleased with this evening’s landing luck at Reagan!

Image of Ben Collin’s and Niketa Patel speaking at ONA 2025

From @bencollins.bsky.social: “We’re the 13th largest newspaper in the U.S… it’s really stupid.” 😂

Definitely a biased observer here, I am one of the 56k print subs they’ve added *in the last year*

Trump’s World Liberty Financial Crypto Venture Raised $50 Million—Likely Sending Millions To His Family, SEC Filing Shows The payout to Trump and his family highlights how his private business dealings overlap with a presidency focused on turning America into the “crypto capital of the world.”

🚨NEW: President Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, quietly raised over $50 million through private token sales—

likely sending tens of millions to him and his family.

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Me, for @forbes.com

Donald J. Trump & ( @realDonald Trump Not that it really matters, but a terribly untalented writer for badly failing Forbes Magazine, Dan Alexander, who probably can't get a meaningful job in the business, has written so inaccurately about me that it is ridiculous. Many others also, the media is mostly Fake News, but Forbes doesn't even try to get things right. I haven't spoken to these SleazeBags in years, they don't want the facts, and they're so inaccurate (purposely!) about everything. I would have thought Forbes would be DEAD by now, but it continues to hang around like a bad disease. Isn't it owned by a hostile nation? Anyway, that's what happens when you have bad reporters with evil intentions. Eventually the publication dies. I've happily seen it over, and over, again! 146 ReTruths 611 Likes 6/30/25,

“Not that it really matters”

It matters.

Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon falls short in her attempt to break 4-minute mile Three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon has failed in her bid to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes.

Still beat her own world record though, absolutely incredible

Slow runners, rise up! My one and only marathon time is close to his! I'm also so delighted that they ID-ed the shoe he runs in 😂

Image of the stage at The Newsletter Conference

Excited for a fun day of newsletter-ing at @newsletterconf.bsky.social!

Law Students Push Back On Firms That Have Capitulated To Trump Saddled with six figures in debt, students usually scramble for big law’s summer associate jobs and $200,000 plus starting salaries. This year, some are rethinking their choices and even pushing back

As more Big Law firms capitulate to the Trump administration, law students are left wondering: how to express their discontent with firms? More on how they're taking advantage of summer associate recruiting season in my latest for @forbes.com

www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Academy Awards Preview: A Look At The Money Behind The Movies Ahead of the 97th Oscars, this preview includes a look at some of the major nominees and frontrunners, Hollywood’s shifting business models and more.

The Oscars aren’t just about the gold statues—they’re about big money, too. From box office winners to the continuing debate over streaming, Hollywood’s financial stakes are higher than ever. Read my latest here: www.forbes.com/sites/chrisd...

Tesla Stock Drops 8% As European Sales Fall, Elon Musk’s Net Worth Goes Down $15 Billion Musk’s net worth fell almost 4% as of midday Tuesday, dropping to almost exactly $100 billion below his all-time high of $464 billion.

What a day: Tesla sales take a hit, the stock plunges, Musk's fortune falls by many, many billions. Consumers and shareholders are voting with their actions! details from @forbes.com @molboha.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

For Trump, it's the "most beautiful word in the dictionary"

For you, it's about to make *a lot* of things more expensive

Here's our comprehensive explainer on tariffs and how they actually work, from @dchemtob.bsky.social

The Wiretap: Americans, Elon Musk Is Coming For Your Personal Data Elon Musk is going after Americans' personal data with his attempts to get DOGE access to Treasury and OPM systems.

NEW in The Wiretap newsletter today:

America, Elon Musk is coming for your personal data.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Chloe Sorvino and Marissa Bale sitting with a copy of Chloe’s book, Raw Deal

Was fantastic to see and hear @chloesorvino.bsky.social speak at the National Press Club with Area2Farms’ Marissa Bale about barriers to ethical meat consumption!

And by “fantastic” I mean equal parts depressing and optimistic, but it ended on a high note! 😂

Mother of Missing U.S. Journalist Asks Syria’s New Leaders for Help Debra Tice, whose son Austin was abducted near Damascus in 2012, said the rebel group that toppled the Assad regime promised support in helping to find him.

The mother of Austin Tice, an American journalist abducted in Syria, said on Monday that she had met with Syria’s new leader in Damascus and expressed hope that "a page will be turned" in the more than decade-long search for her son.

This entire thread is worth your time—what Karen drills into at the end is a stunning example of racism in gen AI

Journalist Austin Tice was captured in Syria more than 12 years ago, crossing all my fingers and toes that he's found safe and can return home in time for Christmas with his family, from @mawilner.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I somehow listened to The Bulwark Podcast for 2,015 minutes.

And here’s the possibly embarrassing one lol … what can I say, it was an election year and I’m an addict 😂

My top artists: Middle Kids, Beyoncé, Jacob Collier, The Staves, Bon Iver

I was, amazingly, in the top 0.4% of Middle Kids listeners.

My top songs: Blessings, Petition, Bend, 100,000 Voices, A Rock Somewhere

I listened to 9,210 minutes of music on YouTube this year (!!)

I hear it’s unofficial “tell the world about your musical interests” day!

6 Smart Year-End Tax Moves Use this trick for figuring out what a year-end charitable contribution or retirement play will do to your 2024 taxes.

Before you do any last-minute moves designed to save on your 2024 #taxes, run some numbers on TurboTax or with your accountant. Your moves could backfire, due to weird tax interactions. www.forbes.com/sites/baldwi...

Tax Breaks: Let’s Talk Tax At Thanksgiving Edition Our latest edition of Tax Breaks. Plus: Our Forbes investment guide, zero percent rates, RMD rules, tax breaks for live organ donation, filing deadlines, and more.

The latest edition of our free #tax newsletter, Tax Breaks, is out!
This week, talking about tax at Thanksgiving.
Plus: Our @forbes.com investment guide, zero percent rates, RMD rules, tax breaks for live organ donation, filing deadlines, and more.
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"that is not the way we do things in the House"

But it sure is the way we do things in journalism!

Earnestly: if you ever share sensitive materials with me, I will do everything in my power to protect you. Help us hold power to account! ebakerwhite@forbes.com; emilybakerwhite@protonmail.com.