Introducing the MAGA hat II. The campaign made some changes to the latest edition of its signature hat, including fixing the Gs. Also in this week'south issue:
The Trump campaign app captures way more information than the Biden campaign app
How New York magazine made its de Blasio street art cover
This is my favorite political advertizing of the year
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The Trump campaign fixed the mismatched messages in its MAGA hats
The Trump campaign on Mon began advertising the latest detail in its campaign shop: a new "Make America Smashing Over again" hat. The new hats feature President Trump'southward 2016 slogan in bigger type and now with matching Gs.
Yous'll observe in the original lid on the left, the G in "great" looks different than the G in "once again." The first G is missing a downstroke, also known as a beard or downward-pointing spur, that is used in the second G. It'south been like this since Trump first debuted the hat on this day in 2015 in a campaign trip to Laredo, Texas. Five years later it's finally fixed.
I reached out to Ace Specialties, the Louisiana company that produces hats for the Trump campaign, to ask nigh the letterform disparities in the first hat. I did not hear back.
If the mismatch was deliberate, information technology could take been to prepare genuine hats apart from counterfeits, speculated Eben Sorkin, senior designer at Darden Studio and founder of Sorkin Type Co. Or perhaps it wasn't on purpose.
"The rest of the lettering doesn't make information technology look every bit if they paid much attention to the effectively points of spacing," Florian Hardwig, Fonts in Use managing editor and Darden Studio portfolio curator, told Yello in an e-mail. "For example, the 'AG' pair is rather loose, certainly when compared to 'ER' in the line higher up. The baseline alignment doesn't seem to exist very consistent either."
The new hats feature a "45" on one side, an American flag on the other, and "Trump 2020" on the back. They're available in red, navy, and white for $30.
The Trump entrada app captures way more data than the Biden entrada app
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MIT Technology Review recently looked at the Trump 2020 app and Team Joe app to see what kinds of data and permissions the campaigns requested. It turns out Trump is request for a lot more:
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The Trump 2020 app requests admission to read, write, or delete data; broadcast data messages to apps; and pair with Bluetooth devices, which allows the app to target and track people geographically. If you walk or drive past a Bluetooth beacon, you tin can be tracked, and this data tin can exist used to build a profile to annunciate to you or people like you. Last year, Mashable reported beacons were even embedded by a company in one Republican presidential main campaign's lawn signs.
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Facebook removes Trump ads over Nazi imagery
Facebook took down Trump campaign ads last week that used Nazi imagery. The ads, which asked supporters to oppose "MOBS of far-left groups" and Antifa, featured an upside-downwardly red triangle, a Nazi symbol sewn into the clothes of political prisoners in concentration camps.
Entrada spokesman Tim Murtaugh claimed the triangle is an Antifa symbol, though the most widely utilize symbol of the anti-fascist movement is a logo with ii flags. Facebook spokesman Andy Rock told the Washington Post, "Our policy prohibits using a banned hate grouping'due south symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol."
The campaign ran a total of 88 versions of this ad from the Facebook pages of Trump, Vice President Pence, and Team Trump. The number 88 is associated with white supremacists.
Like Trump entrada ads that too referenced Antifa only used different images remain up.
The Biden campaign but made its first general election Television advertising buy
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The Biden campaign announced a $15 million advertizing purchase last Thursday, its commencement idiot box advertisement buy of the general election. The ads will air in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, N Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — all battleground states Trump carried in 2016 — likewise as on national cablevision. The ad buy includes $i 1000000 for Castilian-language ads in Arizona and Florida and "a mid-half-dozen-effigy" spend for African-American media.
Portraits of confederate leaders removed from Capitol
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Speaker Pelosi ordered the portraits of four former House speakers who as well served equally confederate leaders to be removed from the Capitol Speaker'southward foyer last Thursday.
"There's no room in the hallowed halls in this democracy, this temple of republic, to memorialize people who embody violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy," Pelosi said, according to Politico.
The Capitol'due south National Statuary Hall Drove, which is made up of 2 statues from every land, withal has 11 statues of confederate soldiers or officials, only it's up to individual states to decide whether to remove their statues.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-North.J.) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) re-introduced the Confederate Monument Removal Act earlier this calendar month which would remove the statues within 120 days. The beak was blocked past Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who said he would "like to accept some time to see if nosotros should have a hearing on this."
How New York magazine made its de Blasio street art cover
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For the cover of its latest issue, New York magazine wheat-pasted portraits of Mayor Bill de Blasio around the city and photographed what happened after leaving them upward. A photo of vandalized posters on a storefront on Flatbush Ave. was used for the cover story Everybody Hates Bill.
A erstwhile BdB adviser said one problem the unpopular mayor faces is he'due south not on social media and he isn't seeing the images of police brutality that the residuum of us are.
"He doesn't meet the footage you and I are seeing on Twitter. He doesn't run into the cops pepper-spraying protesters in the face or running over people," the old adviser said. "He is counting on the PD or some staffer to tell him what is going on, and he doesn't go that the world is watching this play out on their phones every bit it is happening."
It's probably time to get on Twitter.
This is my favorite political ad of the twelvemonth
This ad has everything. Shelli Landon is a candidate running in the Republican primary for Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District.
This new botched art restoration is *chef's kiss*
It happened once more. Someone tried to restore a painting and found the job easier said than washed.
An art collector who owned of a copy of The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables by Bartolomé Esteban, a Spanish baroque artist from the 1600s, paid about $1,350 to a furniture restorer to have the painting restored. There were 2 attempts made and neither worked. 🥴
Here's a look at Black Lives Thing murals across the U.S.
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ICYMI, I'm tracking Black Lives Matter murals beyond the country. Since I published this story on Sunday, I've already added murals from a few new cities. You can see the full list here.
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