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Best of the worst: Right-wing tweets on the Texas abortion battle

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:30:00 +0000

The Texas Legislature began a short special session today that conservatives hope will make the state a much harder place to obtain an abortion. As activists stormed the state Capitol, pundits waged the abortion wars on Twitter. Here at Salon, we've published a few of these "best of the worst" roundups but they're not usually this angry:

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New pope: Best of the worst reactions

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:50:00 +0000

There's a new pope -- Francis I -- who unsurprisingly has terrible views on gay and reproductive rights. He has somewhat better views on poverty and inequality. He personally helped Argentina's right-wing military junta hold political prisoners after 1976. And here's what the best of the worst of Twitter has to say about it (worst/best of all, Erick Erickson):

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But, for some relief, here are some great reactions to the new pope:

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