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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Josh Marshall

      Again: this is an elite freak-out over people exercising their free speech rights in perfectly reasonably, peaceful ways.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1523877267264487426 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Josh MarshallVerified account @joshtpm
      Susan Collins calls the cops to investigate “defacement of public property” after someone wrote a message in chalk on the sidewalk near her home asking her to codify Roe. https://bangordailynews.com/2022/05/09/news/bangor/pro-abortion-chalk-message-appears-on-susan-collins-bangor-sidewalk/ …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Big picture: American women are going to lose a major right. That's a travesty & everyone (even those who support this) understand on some level that it's going to spark righteous anger. To delegitimize this anger, elite is concocting fantasies of violence

      8 replies 129 retweets 787 likes
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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      It shouldn't really matter where you stand on abortion. You have to accept that people have a right to peacefully (even if loudly) protest public officials. The move to delegitimize this protest using lies (i.e. Alito's family had to flee) is outrageous

      11 replies 148 retweets 872 likes
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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      However flawed & limited USA democracy has been, it's long had one great silver lining: robust free speech culture & right to organize & protest. The pushback against protesting at this moment would deny even that, which makes all the other democratic regressions even worse.

      7 replies 111 retweets 629 likes
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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      In retrospect, the mass movements of the Trump era, peaking with the George Floyd protests, freaked out elites (not just the GOP). What we've seen since has been attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.

      9 replies 81 retweets 537 likes
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    6. EaracheMyEye‏ @EaracheEye May 9
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      But did they accomplish anything?

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9
      Replying to @EaracheEye

      They scared a lot of people in power.

      3 replies 0 retweets 20 likes
    8. EaracheMyEye‏ @EaracheEye May 9
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Ok, but did they help get people elected to make the changes they want? Undoing the overturning of Roe is only going to happen by winning elections. I think the protests at the justices houses are counterproductive.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9
      Replying to @EaracheEye

      Was it the job of the protesters to win elections or the job of the Democratic candidates?

      10:17 PM - 9 May 2022
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        1. EaracheMyEye‏ @EaracheEye May 9
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          That is a fair point, but did the protests make their job harder? And yes the job of the protests, and all actions, needs to be to help win elections. That is the only way to achieve change.

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