Personal takeaway from the protests outside Kavanaugh's house

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Patriotic Moose & Lamb (v.2) @geno_kusa 5h
Here’s my personal takeaway from the protests outside Kavanaugh’s house.

It’s accessible via the Chevy Chase Metro stop on the Red Line (Friendship Heights)

Link to tweet

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/08/business/abortion-rights-protest-targets-homes-kavanaugh-roberts/

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1. anyone remember when Friendship Heights was just a little piss smelling octagon pavillion?

...for the D.C Transit bus?

Mom would take us to the small deli there after shopping at Hecht Co. and Woodward and Lothrop downtown and get us a fried kosher hotdog on a poppy seed bun with a kosher pickle and a birch beer.

I think she just liked to flaunt herself walking around the stores after desegregation which came very late to those department stores, despite the law.

When it changed to a Metro subway stop (no more pissy pavillion), I found myself commuting though there once, and strolled away from the crowd I was with from the train who were waiting for the bus I took to work and got a doughnut and a coffee from the same deli and sauntered back and ate and drank the last of the two just as the bus pulled up. The looks!

Did that several more times over the next months, always to the same effect.

Kicking...

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2. Ah, woodies and Garfinkel's

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4. don't think we went in Garfinkels until it came to the suburbs

...we used to go to D.C. at Christmastime to see the automated displays in the Woodward and Lothrop shop windows. Magical.

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3. Do you think some votes will change, after seeing alito's draft?

and/or enough changes in the draft will occur, to be significant?

If so, from WHOM? Any 'rational' Court members?

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5. I dunno

...it's almost impossible to trust reports about what they're thinking, what Roberts is thinking, for instance.

I'd guess, no. At best I think the conservative majority (the political wing of the court) will try and muddle their effective abortion ban with some meaningless language.

I also don't believe these protests are focused so much on changing their minds, as they're directed at generating impetus for political action outside the court.

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6. Interesting how people are allowed to protest women's health clinics,

turning a trip to the gynecologist (which is no one else's business) into a nightmare -- but when that protest hits the home of someone who's just dug into every woman's business on a national level, well how dare anyone protest that.

Boston Globe article, no paywall: https://archive.ph/0FRUH

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois, a Democrat, this week criticized protests at the homes of justices and other public officials as “demeaning and adolescent.”

Oh, sweetie, do hush.