Hunter Schwarz

Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court, dealing major blow to trade policy The appeals court stayed its ruling until Oct. 14, giving the Trump administration time to ask the Supreme Court to hear the case.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: "The core Congressional power to impose taxes such as tariffs is vested exclusively in the legislative branch by the Constitution. Tariffs are a core Congressional power." www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/t...

federal court: rules that Trump's tariffs are illegal

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The Pulse Memorial rainbow crosswalk honoring the 49 lives lost in the 2016 nightclub shooting in Orlando has been removed and painted over by the state www.fox35orlando.com/news/pulse-m...

McGruff, the anti-crime dog, is now also anti-DOGE Plus: Pure Michigan’s new campaign to lure tourists is a fragrance line

Read more here on how McGruff the anti-crime dog became anti-DOGE: www.yellopolitics.com/p/mcgruff-th...

McGruff is selling "Take a Bite Out of DOGE" tees that look bootleg but aren't to raise money after government cuts forced the National Crime Prevention Council to put a pause on work on a new PSA.

mentally I am here

A team of astronomers says it has found a new moon orbiting Uranus and it’s so tiny you can walk the whole thing in two hours.

my chat with @hunterschwarz.bsky.social for this week's open tabs! Hunter's newsletters, Yello and Whig, are 100% required reading imo

His Majesty’s government website has a new brand identity. Here’s why. Plus: “Zohran for New York City” and a new era of progressive political design

The U.K. government website got a redesign and refreshed logo meant to help build trust in government and encourage more citizens to use the site. www.yellopolitics.com/p/his-majest...

The "Belligerents" section of the Israel-Iran war page on Wikipedia has been updated to include the United States.

Sorry, cons, the Revolution is liberal now Plus: Mariah Carey changed her font in her new music video but you might not notice

Revolutionary War-era symbols that have been associated with the political right for more than a decade-and-a-half are now popping up on the left. Say hello to the Democratic Revolutionary Revival. www.yellopolitics.com/p/sorry-cons...

Pope Francis restates Catholic Church is for everyone, including LGBTQ+ people "The Lord is clear," the pope insisted on Sunday. "The sick, the elderly, the young, old, ugly, beautiful, good and bad."

Pope Francis' message to attendees at the 2023 World Youth Day was "todos, todos, todos," or "everyone, everyone, everyone." 🕊️ abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

What NASA’s award-winning content strategy can tell us about building support for government Plus: This graphic designer won $1 million from Elon Musk. Her story’s changed.

Sometimes, this press release could have been a cat video. What NASA’s award-winning content strategy can tell us about building support for government. www.yellopolitics.com/p/what-nasas...

Trump’s actually spending more than Biden Plus: Xtina produced Burlesque the Musical

Ignore the BS - "Trump’s actually spending more than Biden."

From @hunterschwarz.bsky.social

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How Trump uses finger pointing like a secret language to visually communicate Plus: Want to design the infrastructure of the future? Here’s three steps for the U.S. to get there.

I bet this will be especially interesting to linguists who study gestures. By @hunterschwarz.bsky.social:
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The patriotic branding of Canada’s Liberal campaign is aggressively Canadian Plus: Trump’s trying to make “liberation day” happen

In short order, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s campaign has built a brand that’s proud and patriotic in an election that’s become all about standing up to Trump. “We’ve never had an election like this.” www.yellopolitics.com/p/the-patrio...

Well this is bleak… an empty email from 538 of its top politics stories of the week was sent out this afternoon with nothing in it :(

"goat" has entered the lexicon to the extent that it can now be used in newspaper headlines 🐐

Pantone just named a color after Drew Barrymore Of course, it's a sunny yellow.

Drew Barrymore just got her own Pantone color. www.fastcompany.com/91283798/pan...

when I use 'attorneys general' in a sentence

The first rule of being a Patriot is bow to no king Plus: Rihanna says R9 has no genre or radio hits

In this week’s issue of Whig:

🇫🇷 Macron gets frank

👠 Melania is big in China

🎤 Tate McRae calls Britney comparisons “flattering and scary”
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I DON'T NEED TO SEE THE TOE SUCKING VIDEO ANY MORE THANK YOU

Happy Arizona Statehood Day 🦂❤️

The MAGA box strikes back

This PSA could save your life Plus: Hear me out, what if social media was actually regulated in the public interest?

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., and there’s a unique stigma around it. This new PSA from the Ad Council found a compelling way to get around that. www.yellopolitics.com/p/this-psa-c...

OpenAI's rebrand tries to tap into the emotional side of AI OpenAI's rebrand balances the technical and the emotional by updating its logo and centering a new typeface called OpenAI Sans.

Typography is "the first thing people interact with when meeting AI for the first time," and it's also at the center of OpenAI's first-ever rebrand. www.fastcompany.com/91273217/ope...

C-SPAN is crowdsourcing questions for the White House press briefing, asking its newsletter readers to email in with their name, location, and question

Target’s colorful Up&Up rebrand aims for more shelf appeal How design agency Collins gave Target’s $3 billion private-label brand a high-value feel.

Target's beloved up&up private-label brand got a rebrand. Its previous packaging used matching colors for the typography and arrow logo against a white background. The new packaging dials up the color use. www.fastcompany.com/91271515/tar...

This is government by cosplay Plus: Amy Sherald’s largest-ever museum show offers a more expansive view of Black history

Hiring for communications over competence might make for good TV, but what’s lost when our government puts spectacle over all else? www.yellopolitics.com/p/this-is-go...

Trump’s quest to redefine and profit off of memes Plus: There’s a fight to trademark the city of Dallas' logo

The term “meme” was coined to describe a unit of culture, and in the 2010s, it took on a more colloquial, internet-centric meaning for a joke format that can be screenshot and shared. Now the Trumps are at the forefront of an attempt to redefine it again. www.yellopolitics.com/p/trumps-que...