🍁 Fall’s Forecast: 100% Chance of SmartHER Style
We’re bringing back our favorite hoodie – just in time for fall. The perfect piece for cooler mornings, coffee runs and catching up on your SmartHER Weekend Digest. 📰
The new electric blue color felt like the essential we ALL needed as we prepare to celebrate America's 250th anniversary in 2026 (expect a lot of ❤️, 🤍, 💙). We also have our original colors - a bright, crisp white and a cozy heather gray.
When we first introduced this sweatshirt a few years ago, we thought we’d found the perfect hoodie: super soft and lightweight – cozy for cooler mornings and nights, easy to layer under a jacket, long enough to wear with leggings, and finished with a chic neckline when zipped all the way up. We wear it constantly, so we're truly excited to bring you a fresh new option!
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🗣️ Your Conversation Starters:
📜 The Shutdown Statute: Government shutdowns didn’t technically exist until 1980, when the U.S. Attorney General ruled that a past 1884 law – the Antideficiency Act — required federal agencies to stop work if Congress failed to fund them. Why the law in the first place? The Atlantic has more on the backstory in this 2013 explainer. The Washington Post notes this shutdown – now entering its third week – stands apart from those of the past. Here’s why.
♟️ Trade Chessboard: Amid rising trade tensions with the U.S., China began buying Argentine soybeans instead of American ones, imposing new port fees on U.S. ships, and tightening rare earth exports critical for tech manufacturing. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury floated billions in support for Argentina, hoping to counter China's growing influence in the region.
🎶 “Always better when we're together”: It’s no longer just Jack Johnson singing it (remember that hit?). Recent research shows people find almost all everyday activities — even grocery shopping — more enjoyable when done with others.
💸 'Swiftonomics': A new class at the University of Louisville, “Swiftonomics,” uses Taylor Swift’s lyrics and her business model to teach basic economic theory. One more lesson to add to the curriculum? Her latest album broke the all-time record for album sales in the first week.
🐐 Goatscaping: Step aside, John Deere – there’s a new mower in town. This ski resort in Vermont enlisted 150 goats and sheep to clear overgrown vegetation ahead of ski season. Their manager? Helios, the guard dog ... 👇🏽
🍎 “An absolute diva”: The Honeycrisp may reign as America’s favorite apple, but farmers in Washington state say she's a “nightmare” to grow. Enter the Cosmic Crisp — a new variety some hope can take her place.
⚡ Still Got Game: Last Saturday, this 80-year-old woman became the oldest athlete to complete the IRONMAN World Championship. She’s part of a growing group of masters athletes who, according to a new study “challenge conventions of age-related limitations.” Think you can keep up with them? Check your fitness with these two tests.
🍌 Just Bananas: Five teams join the Savannah Bananas next year, expanding what the team calls “the fastest and most entertaining game of baseball.” When the yellow-tuxedo-wearing owner Jesse Cole took over the Bananas in 2016, he sold just “a handful of tickets.” Now, Forbes values the franchise at $500 million. That kind of growth? Just bananas - B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
💵 Powerball with Purpose: Three years after winning the $2 billion Powerball jackpot, California native Edwin Castro is investing millions of his fortune to rebuild Altadena homes destroyed by this year’s wildfire – with plans to sell them to families, not investors.
🚫 No Cellphones, Please: Bars like DC’s Hush Harbor now serve drinks and social hour sans technology. What do you think?
🎙️ This Week From Jenna:
#ICYMI: Who Wants to Make a Deal? A peace deal. A trade deal. An (absent) shutdown deal. What to know about the deals percolating in the news and why they matter.
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🙌🏽 What We Found SmartHER This Week:
Kite & Key creates simple, straightforward videos that unpack some of today’s toughest topics. Their latest release explores why, in an age of endless information, our brains struggle to separate fact from fiction – and what we can do about it.
As one of our SmartHER teammates put it after watching: 👇🏽
“They explain the entire landscape right now. Both how it feels reporting the news ... and how it feels to consume it.”
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And that's The Weekend Digest!
❤️,
Jenna and the SHN Team
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