Hunter Schwarz
@hunterschwarz.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Journalist │ I write about politics, design, and culture https://www.hunterschwarz.com
Happy 44th birthday to Miss @britneyspears ✨💐
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Happy 44th birthday to Miss @britneyspears ✨💐
Trump's campaign is upcharging for his Christmas merch and calling it a discount in emails to his mailing list:
MAGA Merry Christmas hats that go for $28 on his site are being sold for $35 in emails, and 2026 calendars that go for $25 are being sold for $32 in emails.
MAGA Merry Christmas hats that go for $28 on his site are being sold for $35 in emails, and 2026 calendars that go for $25 are being sold for $32 in emails.
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Trump's campaign is upcharging for his Christmas merch and calling it a discount in emails to his mailing list:
MAGA Merry Christmas hats that go for $28 on his site are being sold for $35 in emails, and 2026 calendars that go for $25 are being sold for $32 in emails.
MAGA Merry Christmas hats that go for $28 on his site are being sold for $35 in emails, and 2026 calendars that go for $25 are being sold for $32 in emails.
federal court: rules that Trump's tariffs are illegal
me:
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August 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
federal court: rules that Trump's tariffs are illegal
me:
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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...
August 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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 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.
August 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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.
August 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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.
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my chat with @hunterschwarz.bsky.social for this week's open tabs! Hunter's newsletters, Yello and Whig, are 100% required reading imo
August 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
my chat with @hunterschwarz.bsky.social for this week's open tabs! Hunter's newsletters, Yello and Whig, are 100% required reading imo
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...
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
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August 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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.
June 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The "Belligerents" section of the Israel-Iran war page on Wikipedia has been updated to include the United States.
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...
Sorry, cons, the Revolution is liberal now
Plus: Mariah Carey changed her font in her new music video but you might not notice
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June 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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' message to attendees at the 2023 World Youth Day was "todos, todos, todos," or "everyone, everyone, everyone." 🕊️ abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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."
abcnews.go.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Pope Francis' message to attendees at the 2023 World Youth Day was "todos, todos, todos," or "everyone, everyone, everyone." 🕊️ abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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...
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.
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April 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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...
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Ignore the BS - "Trump’s actually spending more than Biden."
From @hunterschwarz.bsky.social
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From @hunterschwarz.bsky.social
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Trump’s actually spending more than Biden
Plus: Xtina produced Burlesque the Musical
whig.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Ignore the BS - "Trump’s actually spending more than Biden."
From @hunterschwarz.bsky.social
whig.substack.com/p/trumps-act...
From @hunterschwarz.bsky.social
whig.substack.com/p/trumps-act...
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I bet this will be especially interesting to linguists who study gestures. By @hunterschwarz.bsky.social:
open.substack.com/pub/yello/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/yello/p/...
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.
open.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I bet this will be especially interesting to linguists who study gestures. By @hunterschwarz.bsky.social:
open.substack.com/pub/yello/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/yello/p/...
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...
The patriotic branding of Canada’s Liberal campaign is aggressively Canadian
Plus: Trump’s trying to make “liberation day” happen
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April 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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 :(
March 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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 🐐
February 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"goat" has entered the lexicon to the extent that it can now be used in newspaper headlines 🐐
Drew Barrymore just got her own Pantone color. www.fastcompany.com/91283798/pan...
Pantone just named a color after Drew Barrymore
Of course, it's a sunny yellow.
www.fastcompany.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Drew Barrymore just got her own Pantone color. www.fastcompany.com/91283798/pan...
when I use 'attorneys general' in a sentence
February 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
when I use 'attorneys general' in a sentence
In this week’s issue of Whig:
🇫🇷 Macron gets frank
👠 Melania is big in China
🎤 Tate McRae calls Britney comparisons “flattering and scary”
whig.substack.com/p/the-first-...
🇫🇷 Macron gets frank
👠 Melania is big in China
🎤 Tate McRae calls Britney comparisons “flattering and scary”
whig.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The first rule of being a Patriot is bow to no king
Plus: Rihanna says R9 has no genre or radio hits
whig.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
In this week’s issue of Whig:
🇫🇷 Macron gets frank
👠 Melania is big in China
🎤 Tate McRae calls Britney comparisons “flattering and scary”
whig.substack.com/p/the-first-...
🇫🇷 Macron gets frank
👠 Melania is big in China
🎤 Tate McRae calls Britney comparisons “flattering and scary”
whig.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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I DON'T NEED TO SEE THE TOE SUCKING VIDEO ANY MORE THANK YOU
February 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I DON'T NEED TO SEE THE TOE SUCKING VIDEO ANY MORE THANK YOU
Happy Arizona Statehood Day 🦂❤️
February 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Happy Arizona Statehood Day 🦂❤️
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...
This PSA could save your life
Plus: Hear me out, what if social media was actually regulated in the public interest?
www.yellopolitics.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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...
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...
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.
www.fastcompany.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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...