This is Shelby Shoup. She is a Jewish woman who is facingbattery charges for throwing drops ofchocolate milk, and is being doxxed and having her and her family’s personal information exposed. Her venmo is shelby-shoup, if you can donate and help her, please do.
[image 1: “Shelby Shoup, a Jewish woman at FSU, was arrested for throwing chocolate milk at members of the GOP-Nazi Party days after our people were slaughtered while praying. Now she’s the target of a massive antisemitic harassment campaign.
image 2: Everybody asking about the legitimacy of Shelby’s Venmo: yes it’s real, no it’s not fake. Please donate to help her cover legal fees, counseling, etc. shelby-shoup]
People are acting like she deserves this, like it’s a despicable act, but she literally threw drops of chocolate milk at them, and she’s facing battery charges. Some people say she should be charged with assault. She’s being targeted heavily by antisemitic attacks, which surpises no one. I haven’t seen anyone talk about her yet, and I really hope she is able to get through this because she does not deserve these charges or these attacks.
UPDATE:
[image 1: “Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke has now gotten ahold of Shelby’s case & it’s on his timeline. He was involved in the Unite the Right rally at which Heather Heyer was killed. Shelby is now afraid for her parents safety. @floridastate plz comment. REPORT & SPREAD THIS WIDELY.
image 2: From David Duke’s Twitter, “This behavior warrants expulsion.” On a tweet about Shelby.]
David Duke knows about Shelby. The Grand Wizard of the KKK knows about this vulnerable Jewish woman. Please donate and help her if you can, she is fearing for her family’s safety and it’s very, very common for jewish people to be attacked and have people look the other way.
This is another moment to stand for Standing Rock. Native people are here, they’re resilient, and despite the laws trying to suppress them, they’re ready to vote.
Text 788683 to take the #StandNVote pledge. Let’s bring this home tomorrow.
BIG NEWS IN TEXAS!!!!! Over the 10-day early voting period 4 MILLION votes were cast! This is 84% of the total votes casted in the 2014 midterms!!! Oh, and Beto O’Rourke is now even with Ted Cruz in the polls so get out and VOTE BETO FOR U.S. SENATE ON TUESDAY!!!!!!!!
Do you want to vote, but feel overwhelmed when you look at a voting guide? Me too, my man. Good news though:
1. There are simple, plain-language voting guides online that break ballot measures into bullet points. Google “progressive voting guide for [your city/state]” to see what I mean.
2. (And this is important): Voting isn’t all-or-nothing. If you literally only have the mental energy to vote on one thing, you should still vote.
You don’t have the brain space/ability to slog through the information for every single ballot measure? That’s okay. Vote anyway.
It’s totally fine to leave things blank. Is there even a single issue or candidate that you want to vote on? That one issue/candidate is enough. Get thee to a voting booth, and do your thing.
Oh, and don’t be hard on yourself about the rest. Celebrate the fact that you got out there and voted the best you could.
tl;dr Vote within your abilities, and don’t guilt trip yourself for not filling out your ballot 100%. It’s better to vote on some things, than not vote at all.
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