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Internet Makes White Supremacists Regret Participating In #Charlottesville Violence
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A #Twitter account called Yes, You’re Racist has been publicly outing white supremacists who attended “Unite the Right” demonstrations following a decision by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The user of the account asked followers to send the names and social media profiles of anyone they recognized at the protests.

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Yes, You’re Racist @YesYoureRacist
UPDATE : Cole White, the first person I exposed, no longer has a job ?‍♂️ #GoodNightColeWhite #ExposeTheAltRight #Charlottesville

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It’s Not Romantic Anymore to Say That Plants Have Brain-like Systems - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/its-not-romantic-anymore-to-say-that-plants-have-brain_like-systems

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Last week, researchers found, in the dormant seeds of the small rockcress plant Arabidopsis, a “decision-making center” that they believe resembles “some systems within the human brain.”Photograph by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / FlickrLast month, when the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, presided over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, he gave a speech that would go viral. In it, he rebuked the South’s long-nurtured tendency—expressed in slogans like, “Heritage, not hate”—to romanticize the Confederacy. “We shouldn’t romanticize Confederate monuments,” read a recent letter to The Buffalo News. “The romantics may say that the average Confederate didn’t own slaves. But like most people, they hoped to be rich, and what did most rich people [in the South] have at that time? Slaves.” (...)