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Nicole Richie rang in her 36th year on Thursday, but it doesn’t look like the celebration is going to be ending anytime soon.

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The world’s most doting husband, Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden, took to the ‘gram (twice!) to appreciate his wife on her special day:

But Madden’s love is boundless, and obviously no match for the confines of social media. That being said, the rocker did what he could on Instagram, celebrating Nicole on the Friday following her birthday too. Again, not just once …

First, he posted a black-and-white image of Nicole riding on his shoulders, which is both impressive and adorable.

Next up, Joel chose an editorial shot. Introducing, Joel’s Poultry Queen:

Madden’s third post was the sweetest yet. Accompanying a shot of Nicole wearing a loose plunging maxidress, Joel wrote “The boss in my house I’ve been at a loss for words for 11 years now…i always just sound like a nervous mess .” Awww (times infinity!).

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Oh, and then he shared “one more”:

So sweet!

I don’t know about you, but my heart might not go on.

America Ferrera is telling it like it is. In the latest installment of The New York Times‘s “Table for Three” column, the Ugly Betty actress got candid with Hillary Clinton about the struggles women face in society, and the harsh reality of being a Latina in Hollywood.

“Women grow up in the same culture as men,” Ferrera, 33, said. “We’re taught to hate ourselves with as many, if not more, messages every day.”

Seated beside the former presidential candidate at the Lambs Club in Manhattan, Ferrera, the first Latina in history to win an Emmy for best leading actress in a comedy, went on to explain how that’s amplified for Latinas. “As a woman, as a Latina, I’ve always felt there’s a very narrow version of me that’s acceptable, that’s allowed to succeed. And if I stray from that, I’m not just failing myself, I’m failing so many. So, I’ve operated from a place of fear, not from my most-alive self.”

Ferrera continued: “As an actress, the idea that women are relegated to a certain roles, and Latina women are further relegated to hyper-sexualized objects, just to fit in, has completely limited my career and me as a human being. But I’m calling bull!” she added. “Why should I have to compete with every other brown woman just because somebody says this is the amount of pie we’re willing to give you?”

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And at the end of the meal, both women revealed they have no plans to “shut up” any time soon.

Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain

November 11, 2019 | News | No Comments

All eyes are focused these days on Boris Johnson, the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. 

But that’s not the most important news this month out of Britain. 

The Labor Party has finally come around to opposing the country’s exit from the European Union, though it’s possibly a case of “too little, too late.” The party failed to get its act together before the European Parliament elections in May and was thus unable to offer a clear alternative to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, which ultimately received the most British votes. 

Nevertheless, the battle lines are now clearly drawn. Just last month, the country was led by Theresa May, who initially supported Remain but who dutifully pushed through her party’s commitment to Leave. At the helm of the main opposition Labour Party, meanwhile, is Jeremy Corbyn, whose dislike of the European Union’s neoliberal elements ensured that Labour was incapable of taking a clear position. With such half-hearted leadership, no wonder the country has been making a mess of things after the Brexit referendum.

But now, the chest-thumping Brexiteer Boris Johnson will take Britain’s helm. And Labour has moved more firmly into the Remain camp. Let the battle begin.

Labour’s Shift

Britain’s Labour Party is in difficult straits. It’s not just the party’s incoherent position on Brexit. Charges of anti-Semitism within the party have led to a number of MPs leaving the party and an investigation by the independent Equality and Human Rights Commission. Fully one-third of British voters think that Labour is anti-Semitic. In this year’s European Parliament election, Labour lost half its seats. The party has seen its popularity drop from 42 percent in July 2017 to 27 percent two years later.

But given how unpopular the Conservative Party has been, even 27 percent puts Labour close to the top of the polls. There is, however, competition from another quarter. The Liberal Democrats have just chosen a new party leader, Jo Swinson, who offers a full-throated rejection of Brexit and an equally unequivocal condemnation of Boris Johnson: “He has shown time and time again that he isn’t fit to be prime minister. Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.” 

An insurgent movement within Labour has attempted to right the ship and stave off the challenge from the Liberal Democrats. A new group of radical and socialist Labour MPs called “Love Socialism, Rebuild Britain, Transform Europe” recognizes the problems of the European Union and acknowledges the pain suffered by so many of Brexit’s supporters. But it argues that Britain should remain in order to join the fight to transform the EU. Last week, the group held a meeting in parliament that included a number of shadow cabinet ministers who endorsed the anti-Brexit agenda and pushed for another referendum on the issue.

Corbyn, meanwhile, has officially shifted to supporting a second referendum, but only after Labour-affiliated trade unions pushed him that direction.

I asked Mary Kaldor, a professor of global governance at the London School of Economics and a long-time campaigner at the European level, if Labour’s shift has come in time to affect the Brexit discussion. Boris Johnson, for instance, has threatened to implement Brexit by the EU’s deadline of October 31 even if he can’t renegotiate a deal to cushion the impact of withdrawal. This “no deal” option terrifies Britons across the political spectrum.

“We’re on a knife edge,” she told me. “The victory of the Brexit Party [in the European Parliament elections] pushed a whole group of society toward this mad ‘no deal’ position. My fear is that a lot of Labour MPs will support the withdrawal agreement because the alternative is no deal. As [Labour MP] Clive Lewis said at the meeting on Monday, ‘We’re in for the fight of our lives.’”

The next official British election is set for 2022. But snap elections could take place if Boris Johnson believes that he can take advantage of Labour’s divisions and Jeremy Corbyn’s  declining popularity. It would be an enormously risky move to do so before the Conservatives have delivered on Brexit. 

But Boris Johnson, like Donald Trump, is notoriously unpredictable and incautious. 

The Tragicomedy of Johnson

It’s often said that anything —a speech, a threat, a jingle — delivered in an upper-class British accent sounds more sophisticated (to American ears at least). Boris Johnson, however, challenges that assertion. He has a long history of sounding absolutely asinine, posh accent notwithstanding.

Johnson is a walking, talking embodiment of the Peter Principle: the tendency of a person to rise in a bureaucracy to their level of maximum incompetence. Except that Johnson has been failing forward his entire life.

A one-time journalist, Johnson is a walking, talking embodiment of the Peter Principle: the tendency of a person to rise in a bureaucracy to their level of maximum incompetence. Except that Johnson has been failing forward his entire life.

Johnson was fired from his first job at the Times of London for making up a quote. A normal person would have scrupulously observed the rules of the game thereafter or found a different career. Instead, Johnson doubled down. He found a new employer, the Telegraph, that ate up all the Euroskeptic nonsense he was making up from his new base in Brussels. As one of his former colleagues put it, Johnson wrote “outrageous stories with only the slenderest connection of truth in them.”

As mayor of London, Johnson was entirely out of his depth, wasting huge sums of money on unrealistic projects such as an airport on an artificial island in the Thames. Another time, he bought old German water cannons for riot control that ended up in the scrap heap at a loss of 300,000 pounds. The only reason London continued to function is that Johnson delegated all the actual work to competent underlings. 

Later, as foreign secretary, Johnson compiled an even more ignominious record of gaffes and diplomatic blunders. He insulted foreign leaders. He told inappropriate jokes. And he managed to screw up the details of a case involving a British citizen detained in Iran in such a way that she remains in jail there until today.

In fact, the only thing that Boris Johnson has ever succeeded at is Brexit, the campaign he supported from the very beginning. But that’s like identifying the Iraq War as George W. Bush’s signal accomplishment or suggesting that the conviction of the Central Park Five was one of Donald Trump’s great victories.

With Johnson taking over Number 10, government ministers are leaving in droves. Cabinet ministers Philip Hammond and David Gauke have submitted their resignations, as has Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan. A #NeverJohnson bloc has emerged to mirror the #NeverTrumpers. A polarizing figure, Johnson may well tear apart the Conservative Party over the issue of Brexit. 

Or, having reached the pinnacle of his incompetence, Boris Johnson could bring the entire country down with him in one final fail. Then with a shrug and a smirk, he’d go back to writing ridiculous articles and saying outrageous things. It would be high comedy on the order of Monty Python—if it weren’t all so damn tragic. 

John Feffer is the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands and the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. His new novel, Frostlands, a Dispatch Books original and book two of his Splinterlands series, has just been published. His podcast is available here.

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Louis Vuitton has an impressive lineup of celebrities who rep their brand—including everyone from Selena Gomez to Michelle Williams—and they’ve just added a new name to their A-list roster. 

On Saturday, the fashion house announced that Emma Stone will be its newest ambassador, and we could not be more excited. The actress and the French luxury brand are teaming up under a generous new contract. Page Six reports that Stone stands to take home $7-$10 million for the gig. Not bad at all, if you ask us.

Louis Vuitton’s creative director Nicolas Ghesquière celebrated the news with an Instagram of himself with Stone and a blue heart emoji. 

“I am truly happy #emmastone is joining #louisvuitton today as a new ambassador,” he wrote. Louis Vuitton’s official Instagram account also jumped in on the fun with a photo of their own. 

“#LouisVuitton is delighted to announce Emma Stone as the latest ambassador for the Maison,” the photo caption read. “A muse and friend of Louis Vuitton Women’s Artistic Director @NicolasGhesquiere, Emma prepares to walk the red carpet for her latest movie #BattleoftheSexes in a #LVSS18 gown.”

Talk about a match made in fashion heaven. 

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Grab the tissues because this is one seriously sweet moment!

Last year, we surprised the world as the iconic Christie Brinkley returned to the pages of SI Swimsuit with her two beautiful daughters in tow. Christie, who appeared in the magazine eight times between 1975-2004, is best known for her record three consecutive SI Swimsuit covers in 1979, 1980 and 1981. Up until that point, no SI Swimsuit model had ever been on the cover two consecutive years when then-SI Swimsuit editor Jule Campbell decided to put Christie on the front three years in a row. 

But this spread wasn’t just about the ’80s blonde bombshell. Posing with Alexa Ray Joel and Sailor Brinkley Cook, the model mom proved that age is just a number as she spoke candidly about having a full circle moment with her daughters. 

So when we decided to invite her daughter Sailor to officially join OUR family this year, as the first-ever second generation Swimsuit model, we couldn’t imagine sharing the news without a little help from our SI Swimsuit legend.

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“Obviously we loved Sailor from the get go,” said SI Swimsuit editor MJ Day. “Meeting and shooting her last year was one of the highlights of my career. She’s the millennial girl next door. She’s funny. She’s driven. She’s smart. She’s beautiful. She’s interesting. And most of all, she has a voice and isn’t afraid to use it.

“Sailor translates so well off the printed page — she takes beautiful pictures but that’s only one of the countless things she’s good at. Much like her mom, she embodies everything it means to be an SI Swimsuit model, but she’s doing it in a way that is very much her own.”

To break the good news to Sailor, we invited Christie to interrupt a fake interview Sailor was conducting about her experience during New York Fashion Week, and the results are guaranteed to bring a tear to your cheek! 

“You’re on your own now,” Christie told Sailor after delivering the good news. “You’re out of my sandy footprints, and you are on your own!”

Sailor, who has been outspoken about the pressure of following in her mother’s footsteps, will join the SI Swimsuit 2018 rookie class, which already includes fellow models Chase Carter and Robin Holzken. Fans can join Sailor on her journey to Aruba for her first official shoot as an SI Swimsuit model in October, where we’ll be live streaming her shoot sans supermodel mom. 

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“I grew up looking at these photos of my mom, never thinking that I would ever be able to do that,” Sailor told People magazine earlier this year.

Well think again, Sailor, because you are officially an SI Swimsuit model! 

You know who had one stellar weekend? Chloë Grace Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham.

On Sunday, the 18-year-old burgeoning photographer took to Instagram to finally share a photo of himself with Moretz after months of teasing us on the social media platforms with images that hinted they were back together. So how’d the reunion shot look?

The super-cute pair each posed adorably with pints of beer and matching green sports gear at a rugby match in Dublin. Beckham simply wrote, “Dublin. You were amazing.” Basically, he kept it cool and did not call attention to the fact that they haven’t posted a new photograph of themselves together in quite some time.

In addition to the ‘gram, the duo also took to Stories to share highlights from their day together. Moretz shared a sweet video of Beckham planting a kiss on her cheek:

And while it’s not confirmed whether these two are once again calling each other boyfriend-girlfriend, they have been spending quite a bit of time together.

Is this their cutest ‘gram yet? It certainly lives up to the hype.

Bon Jovi, Rage Against the Machine, and Nina Simone may be unlikely playlist pairings, but they could end up together in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018.

The nomination field this year spans 19 names, according to Rolling Stone, including nine first-time contenders, like Radiohead, Kate Bush, and Judas Priest.

Artists become eligible for the coveted Rock Hall of Fame induction 25 years after their first single or album was released. The Rock Hall considers nominees from four different categories: performers, early influencers, musical trailblazers and influential non-performers.

The 19 nominees for the Class of 2018 will be whittled down to just five names by December. Ballots will be cast by hundreds of historians and music industry insiders, as well as every living Rock Hall inductee. Fans’ input is taken into account through a public poll.

Last year’s inductees were ELO, Joan Baez, Journey, Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur, Yes, and Nile Rodgers.

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The top five artists selected for the 2018 batch will be inducted at a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio on April 14 next year.

The 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame contenders list includes Bon Jovi, Kate Bush, The Cars, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, Judas Priest, LL Cool J, The MC5, The Meters, Moody Blues, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Link Wray, The Zombies.

It’s been mere hours since Season 2 of Stranger Things launched on Netflix—and the internet has already lost all chill.

The thrilling drama, starring Millie Bobby Brown, 13, Caleb McLaughlin, 16, Noah Schnapp, 13, and Gaten Matarazzo, 15, kicked off with lurking new dangers, ambiguous fates and sparked some wild fan theories.

 

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Naturally, viewers were already making plans to binge watch the popular show on Friday night. But, since the entire season dropped at midnight, some people stayed up late and got a head start.“Ahh, #StrangerThings 2 deserves all the love,” a Twitter user wrote, sharing a photo of the starring crew. “As beautiful and exciting as its first part thanks to these boys.”

Another social media user shared a photo of the cast hugging and tweeted, “I still haven’t slept, damn you Netflic auto play. I can’t stop. #StrangerThings2.”

Others are just hoping the show doesn’t get spoiled for them until they can get to it.

“Spending the next few days trying to avoid Stranger Things spoilers,” one person tweeted.

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Another Twitter user wrote: “I was gonna continue reading my book but I just remembered the new season Stranger Things is out. Might binge watch that instead.”

The new season takes place about a year after the event’s of its premiere season, and pays homage to ’80s classics like Aliens, Poltergeist, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Goonies, and more.

With the new season finally out, the excited tweets are sure to keep coming for quite some time.

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Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are in love, in the city of love! The Game of Thrones star and the DNCE frontman announced their engagement on Sunday and stepped out on the streets of Paris for the first time since their big news.

The couple walked arm-in-arm, which gave photographers the opportunity to catch another glimpse of her new engagement ring, and it’s a stunner. The uniquely shaped diamond ring is set in a double band covered in pave diamonds.

Turner looked chic in a blue and green plaid miniskirt and utilitarian black coat, pairing her look with over-the-knee boots, red sunglasses, and a black beret that reads “Anarchy.” How very Parisian of her.

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Her fiancé was handsome as always in a brown jacket, black tee, and checkered black and white pants. He sported a pair of round sunglasses and a mustache for the outing with his bride-to-be.

Since their engagement news broke, the couple has been flooded with well wishes, including messages from Joe’s brother Nick and Sophie’s BFF and Game of Thrones co-star Maisie Williams.

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“Congratulations to my beautiful girlfriend on her engagement,” Williams wrote. “This is just one of MANY life milestones we’ll share. Love you both.”

Congrats, lovebirds!

Don’t get it twisted: Chrissy Teigen can cook.

The proud mom and cookbook author took to Twitter on Tuesday to bark back at a hater that attacked her skills in the kitchen.

Teigen made a joke about refusing to use 280 characters now that Twitter is changing its limit. “I will NEVER use 280 characters nor will I favorite or retweet a tweet with them. THIS IS MY FIGHT SONG,” she wrote.

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People laughed, but one person called her out on something completely unrelated.

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“That’s cause you can’t cook for s—. But im still a fan, cause you made me laugh,” one guy wrote.

Another fan called him out and questioned his skills, to which the dude wrote, “My best dates are in the grocery store,” suggesting he allows women he’s courting to pop into your local shop, choose the ingredients, and wait for a home-cooked meal.

That obviously didn’t sit well with Teigen. So like the true witty tweeter that she is, she replied to him.

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“I have a #1 New York Times best selling cookbook and cook 3 course meals around 14 times a week. But yeah, you go to the grocery store sometimes,” she said, referring to her 2016 debut, Cravings.

Some users then pointed out that Teigen accidentally fell back on her promise of NOT retweeting tweets with 280 characters because the tweet to which she replied did in fact contain 280.

Regardless, that’s one badass response.