Trump Urges Americans to Boycott Chinese Goods and Just Buy Things at Walmart

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Andy Borowitz jokes that Donald Trump’s solution to a trade war with China is to urge Americans to buy more products at Walmart.

Google has given $150,000 in free ads to deceptive anti-abortion group

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Exclusive: Obria Group’s ads suggest it provides abortion services, when in fact it tries to persuade women not to terminate pregnancies

Google has given tens of thousands of dollars in free advertising to an anti-abortion group that runs ads suggesting it provides abortion services at its medical clinics, but actually seeks to deter “abortion-minded women” from terminating their pregnancies.

Related: Abortion: judge strikes down Kentucky restriction but governor to appeal

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Sandra Bland recorded her own arrest. Watch her cellphone video from the 2015 traffic stop | wfaa.com

The family of Sandra Bland — who died in a Waller County jail cell — is calling for a re-opening of the criminal investigation into Bland’s arrest and death after seeing footage for the first time.

Source: Sandra Bland recorded her own arrest. Watch her cellphone video from the 2015 traffic stop | wfaa.com

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Spent $39,000 in 1 Day at LA Boutique

The National Rifle Association, it brings me no pleasure to report, is fully in the shit: The Wall Street Journal reports that leaked internal NRA documents reveal, among other things, that NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre billed more than $542,000 worth of clothing, travel, and other expenses to its longtime ad agency, Ackerman McQueen Inc. (It’s worth noting that the NRA and Ackerman McQueen are in the middle of a lawsuit over, you guessed it, money.)

Source: NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Spent $39,000 in 1 Day at LA Boutique

Russia’s most toxic lies about a fictitious ‘Odesa Massacre’ and the responsibility Ukraine bears

via aleksey godin It is five years since riots and a tragic fire in Odesa that Russia has used for a toxic propaganda narrative about a fictitious ‘massacre’. It is a narrative that Russia has spent a lot of money fostering, but one that the Ukrainian authorities have failed to properly counter