Michelle Branch is the latest celebrity to be mom-shamed — but it happened to her in real life, not online.
On Twitter Tuesday, a furious Michelle posted, “I just got shamed by another mother (who was holding her own young infant!) for nursing my 6 week old baby on a bench at a playground while my toddler was playing.”
Adding the “mind blown” emoji,” Michelle added, “She said I wasn’t ‘being modest.’ I am in shock that this kind of judgement was coming from a fellow mom!”
She continued, in a separate tweet, “…and to clarify, I had a nursing tank top on and was seated away from others. It’s not like I walked into the crowd and whipped my t**s out. Being a mom is hard enough. Can we not judge one another for how we feed our babies?”
In response to a fan, Michelle further wrote, “I was in shock, so I didn’t say anything back. I’m fuming!”
Michelle and her husband Patrick Carney of the alt-rock band The Black Keys welcomed their daughter, Willie Jacquet Carney, on February 2. She and Carney also share son Rhys James Carney, who’s three. From her previous marriage, Michelle has a 16-year-old daughter, Owen.
Fans online rushed to Michelle’s defense, with one pointing out, “Modesty ain’t gonna feed that baby.”
Another added, “Ugh, that’s so frustrating, especially when it’s coming from another mom! Why is providing nourishment to our babies seen as a shameful thing?”
“It’s 2022, women should breastfeed their babies wherever whenever the f**k they need to,” stated a male fan, to which a female fan replied, “In most (if not all) 50 states we are allowed to by law!”
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Cardi B is continuing to give her hot music takes, whether her fans like it or not. Recently, the “WAP” rapper revealed she’s a fan of emo rock — or at least, one particular artist.
Taking to Twitter, the singer shared a clip of My Chemical Romance‘s 2004 hit “I’m Not Okay (I Promise),” where lead singer Gerard Way dramatically belts out the song’s chorus. The track was the lead single off the album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, which came out the same year.
Remarked Cardi, “They don’t make music like this anymore.”
It didn’t take long for the band to catch wind of the conversation and hit Cardi up in the comment section.
“Grazie mille Cardi!,” they wrote, which is Italian for “a thousand thanks” in English. My Chemical Romance is from New Jersey, not Italy, but whatever.
Of course, this cordial back and forth has fans wondering if the Grammy winner is considering a new collaboration featuring MCR, or if she’s hinting that her next music era will come with an emo twist.
Though “a bit apprehensive” to join the slave thriller, Alice, Keke Palmer says it was her character’s empowerment that inspired her to take on the role.
In an interview with ABC Audio, the Akeelah and the Bee star explained why she felt it was necessary to take part in telling the based-on-true-events story of her character, Alice, an enslaved woman who escapes her owner and, alongside co-star Common, later seeks revenge.
“When I first heard ‘oh, it’s a slave movie,’ I was definitely a bit apprehensive because I’m used to one specific style or perspective that’s portrayed in a history or a Black-American slave history narrative. And it usually does not involve a lot of empowerment,” the 28-year-old actress said. “But when I read the script, not only did I see the character Alice and how she exists throughout the film was dynamic, but also it went in a place of empowerment and hope and having faith and choosing and taking a hold of freedom.”
The “film of freedom” according to first-time director Krystin Ver Linden, takes viewers on an interesting journey, having introduced an enslaved Alice on a 19-century Georgia plantation and then transporting her to the year 1973. On a mission to repay her slave owner, Paul, played by Jonny Lee Miller, Alice comes into a redefined, empowered version of herself and vows to take back her dignity.
Palmer says she also learned about Black history by being a part of the film and was on board to help educate others on “things taken out of the history books.”
“I think when we understand and learn more about these truths, they allow us to see the oppression that’s still happening today,” she said.
The “Break Stuff” rockers have announced a U.S. headlining tour for this spring, kicking off April 28 in Tampa, Florida. The trek will wrap up May 31 in Ontario, California, and will make a stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden along the way.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 18, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit LimpBizkit.com.
Limp Bizkit will be touring in support of their new album Still Sucks, which dropped last Halloween after a 10-year wait.
Fast-rising hitmaker Hardy first made a name for himself as a songwriter who crafts country radio hits for the likes of Florida Georgia Line, Blake Shelton, Dierks Bentley and Cole Swindell, but his latest release showcases his rocker edge.
The new song, “Sold Out,” officially arrived on Wednesday after Hardy spent months teasing it and playing it live. Backed by metal-inspired, screeching vocals and hard-charging guitarwork, the song sounds more like a hard rock tune — but the lyrics are the singer’s mission statement of his unapologetically redneck lifestyle.
“I’m still the same ol’ redneck f***, don’t give a damn / Ain’t afraid to throw a dead buck on my Instagram / Grain alcohol in my cup / Got the whole house wall to wall / And I still ain’t sold out,” he sings in the chorus.
Hardy’s been a busy guy over the past couple of years, putting out his studio debut, A Rock, plus two collaborative Hixtape projects featuring the likes of Ronnie Dunn, Jon Pardi, Jimmie Allen, Chris Lane, Brothers Osborne and many more. His newest single, “Give Heaven Some Hell,” is currently in the top-fifteen and rising at country radio.
But that’s not all: As his artist career takes off, Hardy’s continued to write hit songs for other stars, and he picked up the Songwriter of the Year trophy at the ACM Awards earlier this month.
Mike Myers is back — and once again in prosthetic makeup — in the teaser to his new comedy adventure series The Pentaverate [pen-TAH-ver-uht].
In the series, the Austin Powers star Myers plays Ken Scarborough, a washed-up Canadian TV anchor who stumbles upon the existence of the titular secret society that has quietly steered world events for centuries, a la The King’s Man.
The zany teaser also showcases The Hangover series star Ken Jeong as a Las Vegas casino mogul, Keegan-Michael Key as a nuclear physicist tapped by the secret group, and Debi Mazar, who acts as the Pentaverate’s secretary and “some would say the brains of the whole operation,” Netflix teases.
The series also stars Absolutely Fabulous‘ Jennifer Saunders, while Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, who narrates the teaser, serves as the show’s narrator.
The new song, available now via digital outlets, is the lead single off Rivers Cuomo and company’s SZNZ project, a series of four EPs corresponding with the begging of each of the year’s four seasons.
“A Little Bit of Love” will be featured on the first EP, SZNZ: Spring, which drops on March 20, fittingly the first day of the season.
Weezer will celebrate the spring equinox with a performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, March 21. They’ve also announced a “seasonal residency” with the show, meaning they’ll be back to perform throughout 2022 to mark the releases of the Summer, Fall and WinterSZNZ EPs.
SZNZ follows Weezer’s two 2021 albums, OK Human and Van Weezer.
Here’s the SZNS: Spring track list:
“Opening Night”
“Angels on Vacation”
“A Little Bit of Love”
“The Garden of Eden”
“The Sound of Drums”
“All This Love”
“Wild at Heart”
“Across the Meadow”*
(WASHINGTON) — Speaking just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on him to be a “leader for peace,” President Joe Biden on Wednesday thanked Zelenskyy for his “passionate message” and detailed how much military aid the U.S. is already providing — or will provide — to Ukraine.
Biden called Zelenskyy’s speech “convincing and significant” and said he listened to him from the White House private residence.
“He speaks for people who have shown remarkable courage and strength in the face of brutal aggression — courage and strength that’s inspired not only Ukrainians but the entire world,” Biden said. “Putin is inflicting appalling, appalling devastation and harm on Ukraine — bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals. I mean, it’s — it’s God awful.”
He did not directly address Zelenskyy’s emotional and direct appeal to lawmakers on Wednesday for the U.S. to back a no-fly zone the administration has repeatedly rejected — but announced an additional $800 million in military assistance as part of the $13.6 billion aid package for Ukraine contained in the government spending bill Biden signed into law Tuesday, which includes weapons the Ukrainians have been requesting, such as anti-armor and anti-air systems.
Ahead of signing an action to approve the $800 million in additional security support, Biden said the U.S. is “fully committed” to getting more weapons to Ukraine.
“What’s at stake here are the principles that the United States and the United Nations and across the world stand for. It’s about freedom. It’s about the right of people to determine their own future. It’s about making sure Ukraine never, will never be a victory for Putin no matter what advances he makes on the battlefield,” he said.
“The American people are answering President Zelenskyy’s call for more help, more weapons for Ukraine to defend itself, more tools to fight Russian aggression. And that’s what we’re doing,” Biden said.
While not addressing Zelenskyy’s request for a humanitarian no-fly zone, Biden said the new package will supply Ukraine with 9,000 anti-armor systems, 7,000 small arms, 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems, 20 million rounds of ammunition, and 100 drones, “so they can continue to defend their space.”
“At the request of President Zelenskyy, we have identified and are helping Ukraine acquire additional longer-range anti-aircraft systems and ammunitions for those systems,” he said. “And this will include drones which demonstrates our commitment to sending our most cutting-edge systems to Ukraine for its defense.”
“Now, I want to be honest with you. This could be a long and difficult battle, but the American people will be steadfast in our support of the people of Ukraine in the face of Putin’s immoral, unethical attacks on civilian populations,” he added. “We are united in our abhorrence of Putin’s depraved onslaught, and we are going to continue to have their backs as they fight for freedom, their democracy, their very survival — and we are going to give Ukraine the arms to fight and defend themselves through all the difficult days ahead.”
Over the past week, the U.S. has contributed $1 billion in new assistance to Ukraine.
But White House press secretary Jen Psaki also reiterated Tuesday that the administration doesn’t support Zelenskyy’s no-fly zone request because the U.S. has to consider its own national security, and as Biden has repeatedly put it, does not want to enter “World War III.”
“We have the responsibility to do here is to assess what the impact is on the United States and our own national security,” she said.
While the U.S. has imposed a slate of economic and trade sanctions to isolate Putin, the Biden administration has also flatly rejected U.S. troops fighting Russian forces in Ukraine and any help delivering MiG-29 fighter jets that Poland wants to get to the Ukrainians.
Earlier Wednesday, to a packed auditorium of lawmakers and standing ovations, Zelenskyy seized the spotlight to push Biden to contribute more lethal aid, lawmakers to sanction more companies with ties to Russia, and said if the U.S. cannot agree to support a no-fly zone, then to give Ukraine S-300 systems and other similar weapons to defend its skies.
While the White House event allowed Biden to detail what the U.S. is doing in place of a no-fly zone, he was forced to respond to Zelenskyy’s emotional appeal, in which he told Americans to remember Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks when witnessing the terror in Ukraine and closed by calling out Biden by name, in English, to do more.
“It’s not enough to be the leader of the nation. Today it takes to be the leader of the world,” Zelensky said. “Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. Peace in your country doesn’t depend anymore only on you and your people. It depends on those next to you and those who are strong.”
In remarks on the Senate floor following Zelenskyy’s address, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized the Biden administration for what he’s characterized as a sluggish response to the crisis in Ukraine and outlined three steps the administration should take to pick up the pace.
McConnell called on Biden to expand the scope of U.S. lethal aid to Ukraine to include more effective long-range air defense capabilities, to deploy more U.S. forces to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank and use new authorities to harden the defenses of frontline allies, and finally, for Biden to go “beyond Brussels” on his trip next week and to visit Eastern flank, NATO allies like Poland, Romania and Lithuania.
“As the threat to Ukraine gathered whenever an opportunity to act has presented itself, the Biden administration has hesitated until the political pressure became overwhelming, or balked outright,” McConnell said.
Although he made no direct mention of a no-fly zone, McConnell hit hard on the need to help Ukraine shore up its air defense, arguing the administration should quickly get Ukraine air defense systems “that we should have helped Ukraine get weeks ago.”
Biden will travel to Brussels next Thursday to meet with NATO leaders in his first European visit since Russian President Vladimir Putin started invading Ukraine, the White House announced Tuesday, to meet “face-to-face” with his European counterparts to assess Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ABC News’ Allison Pecorin, Molly Nagle, Conor Finnegan, Luis Martinez and Justin Gomez contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — Speaking just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on him to be a “leader for peace,” President Joe Biden on Wednesday is expected to detail how much military aid the U.S. is already providing — or will provide — to Ukraine.
But it was unclear how much he would directly address Zelenskyy’s emotional and direct appeal to lawmakers on Wednesday and the measures he asked the U.S. to back, including a no-fly zone the administration has repeatedly rejected.
Biden will announce an additional $800 million in military assistance as part of the $13.6 billion aid package for Ukraine contained in the government spending bill Biden signed into law Tuesday, a source familiar told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega, and includes weapons the Ukrainians have been requesting, such as anti-armor and anti-air systems.
But White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated Tuesday that the administration doesn’t support Zelenskyy’s no-fly zone request because the U.S. has to consider its own national security, and as Biden has repeatedly put it, does not want to enter “World War III.”
“We have the responsibility to do here is to assess what the impact is on the United States and our own national security,” she said.
While the U.S. has imposed a slate of economic and trade sanctions to isolate Putin, the Biden administration has also flatly rejected U.S. troops fighting Russian forces in Ukraine and any help delivering MiG-29 fighter jets that Poland wants to get to the Ukrainians.
Psaki also said Biden would watch Zelenskyy’s speech “to the degree” that his schedule allowed.
Earlier Wednesday, to a packed auditorium of lawmakers and standing ovations, Zelenskyy seized the spotlight to push Biden to contribute more lethal aid, lawmakers to sanction more companies with ties to Russia, and said if the U.S. cannot agree to support a no-fly zone, then to give Ukraine S-300 systems and other similar weapons to defend their skies.
While the White House event allows Biden to detail what the U.S. is doing in place of a no-fly zone, he will be forced to respond to Zelenskyy’s emotional appeal, in which he told Americans to remember Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks when witnessing the terror in Ukraine and closed by calling out Biden by name, in English, to do more.
“It’s not enough to be the leader of the nation. Today it takes to be the leader of the world,” Zelensky said. “Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. Peace in your country doesn’t depend anymore only on you and your people. It depends on those next to you and those who are strong.”
In remarks on the Senate floor following Zelenskyy’s address, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized the Biden administration for what he’s characterized as a sluggish response to the crisis in Ukraine and outlined three steps the administration should take to pick up the pace.
McConnell called on Biden to expand the scope of U.S. lethal aid to Ukraine to include more effective long-range air defense capabilities, to deploy more U.S. forces to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank and use new authorities to harden the defenses of frontline allies, and finally, for Biden to go “beyond Brussels” on his trip next week and to visit Eastern flank, NATO allies like Poland, Romania and Lithuania.
“As the threat to Ukraine gathered whenever an opportunity to act has presented itself, the Biden administration has hesitated until the political pressure became overwhelming, or balked outright,” McConnell said.
Although he made no direct mention of a no-fly zone, McConnell hit hard on the need to help Ukraine shore up its air defense, arguing the administration should quickly get Ukraine air defense systems “that we should have helped Ukraine get weeks ago.”
MORE: Biden to head to Brussels next week for show of unity with NATO leaders
Biden will travel to Brussels next Thursday to meet with NATO leaders in his first European visit since Russian President Vladimir Putin started invading Ukraine, the White House announced Tuesday, to meet “face-to-face” with his European counterparts to assess Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ABC News’ Allison Pecorin and Justin Gomez contributed to this report.
Billie Eilish is up for an Oscar March 27 for her No Time to Die James Bond film title song that she co-wrote with her brother, FINNEAS. But Billie says she wasn’t thinking about super-spies when she wrote the haunting theme.
“I wrote the song from the perspective of somebody I had hurt,” she explained to Deadline. “We never think about how our own actions are perceived from other people’s point of view. Or, we do, but we don’t do it enough.”
Billie said composing “No Time to Die” was a “really interesting situation” because it challenged her to step out of her comfort zone.
“It taught me a lot, to put myself in somebody else’s shoes, and it was fun, too, because you can create a character and write about something other than yourself,” Billie explained. “You don’t have to expose yourself; you don’t have to be telling your truth.”
“It was actually kind of fun to write… Sometimes writing songs is a horrible experience,” Billie admitted. “What was cool about writing a song from the perspective of the movie itself was that we love writing characters and narratives into our music, and I feel the music we’re most proud of is the music where we’ve come up with a plot for the song ahead of writing it.”
The “bad guy” singer revealed she doesn’t normally enjoy the process of writing music, which is why “No Time to Die” was a singular experience for her.
“I feel like people always say making music is therapeutic, and I genuinely don’t agree. I don’t really enjoy it. I only enjoy it afterwards, when I play it,” admitted Billie. “I love listening to what I’ve made.”
