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Taylor Swift Says She Regrets Dragging Joe Jonas on The Ellen Show Back in 2008


Let me take you back 11 years, to 2008, when Taylor Swift appeared on The Ellen Show and publicly dragged her then most recent ex, Joe Jonas. You definitely remember this: It was November, and Swift’s second studio album, Fearless, was about to drop. On that LP is a song inspired by Jonas called “Forever and Always,” which she revealed to host Ellen DeGeneres is a sarcastic title. This isn’t the only tea she spilled, either. In that interview, Swift also explained the method in which Jonas broke up with her: a 25-second phone call.

“It’s all right. I’m cool,” Swift told DeGeneres at the time. “You know what? It’s like when I find that person that is right for me and he’ll be wonderful, and when I look at that person, I’m not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.”

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DeGeneres and her entire studio audience were visibly shocked by this bombshell, but Swift just laughed it off. In 2019, though, she’s singing a different tune. During her appearance on The Ellen Show this week, she said one of her biggest teenage rebellions was putting Mr. Jonas on blast. “That was too much. Yeah, that was too much,” she explained. “I was 18. We laugh about it now. That was mouthy, yeah, teenage stuff there.”

Taylor Swift made her triumphant return to pop music on April 26 with her single “Me!,” which features Brendon Urie and is currently sitting at number three on Billboard‘s Hot 100. Her seventh studio album is expected to drop sometime this year, and the fan theories surrounding it have reached critical mass. Maybe her mentioning Joe Jonas in this interview is yet another clue. Could a collaboration be on the horizon? Fingers crossed.



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Twitter Is Dragging Conservative Pundit Tomi Lahren for Wearing a Flag Costume for Halloween


Conservative political pundit Tomi Lahren is known for being outspoken about right-wing issues: We’ve seen her criticize government-funded subsidies for birth control (with little indication she knows how much it costs) and come out against allowing military members who are transgender to serve their country. Lately, she’s used her platform to criticize athletes who choose to take a knee when the national anthem is sung at their sporting events. In a monologue on Fox in September, Lahren said that those who chose to kneel to protest the oppression of people of color were doing it for the attention. As part of her argument, she cited the flag as a living symbol of what it means to be American and implied that those who kneel were unpatriotic.

With all this talk about the sacredness of the American flag, it’s not entirely surprising that Lahren faced a lot of backlash on Twitter when she stepped out on Halloween dressed in full flag gear. The criticism didn’t necessarily come from conservatives—whose comments were largely supportive—but liberals, who flagged (ha) her apparent hypocrisy.

In case it’s been a while since you were in the Scouts, the U.S. Code dealing with “respect for the flag” says that “No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform.” (It also mentions that the flag shouldn’t be used for “printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard.” Granted, this is in a section dealing with advertising purposes, but Halloween costumes are nothing if not for temporary use.)

Here is her Make America Great Again/flag costume, complete with a charming caption:

Conservative Twitter was very excited about seeing her wearing all sorts of flag regalia.

The president’s son even weighed in, typically tactfully and eloquently:

Et cetera, TBH.

But others on Twitter came for it:

Jezebel really honed in with what honestly felt like the most important fashion take on the issue: “Tomi Lahren’s Fannypack Is a National Abomination.”

Lahren clapped back with some legal code that she apparently got by Googling “wearing the flag”:

When we did a quick check, we got a whole range of answers from different sources. Although her response makes some sense—yeah, it’s probably not great to turn an actual flag into a Halloween costume—the aforementioned section of the code does mention that it shouldn’t be printed on anything meant for temporary use, which would presumably include fabric used for a costume. I don’t know, though; I’m just a former high-school debater, not an actual legal expert.

So, like many sections of the law, it probably depends on how broadly or narrowly you read into it. If you feel strongly about it, you should definitely check with a lawyer well versed on flag law. Or, you know, find a less controversial Halloween costume.

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Twitter Is Dragging Melania Trump's $1,380 Gardening Shirt


PHOTO: Win McNamee/Getty Images

First Lady Melania Trump harvested the White House vegetable garden on Friday with some help from the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington. To do so, she wore a $1,380 Balmain shirt—and Twitter realllllly had a problem with it.

Needless to say, a $1,380 shirt isn’t the most practical thing to be digging around in the dirt in—and Trump was, in fact, doing some work in the garden Michelle Obama started. Most of us might opt for an old T-shirt or something that has a few coffee stains down the front. But she’s a First Lady, and so her fashion choices will always be up for endless analyzation and critique.

Of course, the Internet hasn’t been too happy with a few of her looks lately: there was the $2,950 Delpozo dress she wore to give a speech about childhood hunger to the United Nations General Assembly, which Twitter was quick to point out came off as a little tone-deaf. And just a few weeks ago, Trump was criticized for wearing heels en route to Houston after Hurricane Harvey it (Manolo Blahniks, no less).

Anyway, here is the shirt and a ripe-looking green pepper:

First Lady Melania Trump - White House Kitchen Garden

PHOTO: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

It’s worth pointing out that, while, yes, a $1,380 shirt errs on the side of being ridiculous, especially for gardening, the spouses of world leaders aren’t exactly known for shopping at Old Navy or Target, or, heck, even J. Crew—until Obama came along. To some degree, designer fashion is de rigueur if you’re married to someone who contributes, for better or worse, to running the world—and it’s not fair to drag Trump just for sticking to the dress code, however crazy it might seem to some of us mortals (for many of us, her shirt is a month or two of rent). At the same time, Obama wasn’t immune herself to designer duds in the dirt: she wore some Jimmy Choos as she broke ground on the garden.

That brings us to Twitter’s take on it. Kate Bennett, a CNN reporter opened the can of worms:

And then others chimed in with a whole range of opinions:

Bennett had a final response to the kerfluffle:

So, yes: First Ladies traditionally wear expensive things, and taxpayers don’t contribute to their wardrobe—so maybe it’s best to let them wear what they want? Overdressing for the garden isn’t and shouldn’t be a partisan issue, though she’s unlikely to score relatability points.

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