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TODAY’S MUST-READ NEWS AND ANALYSIS
- Why is the TSA still searching Black women’s hair? [Cosmopolitan]
- Michael Brown’s mother Lezley McSpadden is considering a run for Ferguson council. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
- Lindy West’s memoir Shrill is being adapted as a Hulu comedy. [The Hollywood Reporter]
- What happens when sex ads become a battleground for the future of the Internet. [The Ringer]
- The U.S. Border Patrol faked statistics showing a 73% increase in assaults against agents. [The Intercept]
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Yesterday From Bitch
- The trend of treating pot as a panacea is escalating and that’s very frustrating. [s.e. smith]
- Can we center victims rather than the physicality of their pain? [Cate Young]
