Robin G. Isserles
            
            @robingisserles.bsky.social
          
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          Sociologist, Proud CC faculty, Research on higher ed and social justice. Lover of wildflowers and jazz. Author, The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College (JHU Press, 2021)
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      In this election, the people have two separate but equally important choices: a city they can afford or the billionaire-backed politics of the past.
Our new ad just aired during Law & Order.
        Our new ad just aired during Law & Order.
      There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.
    
  
      “.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”
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Reporter: “How important are Black & Hispanic voters?”
Jack Ciattarelli: “OK, Next question.”
The Garden State ain’t no GOP racist dog whistle stop 🤬
#DemVoice1 #Voice4Victory #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited via @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, Cranbury NJ Oct. 2 www.instagram.com/reel/DPUeM5T...
        Reporter: “How important are Black & Hispanic voters?”
Jack Ciattarelli: “OK, Next question.”
The Garden State ain’t no GOP racist dog whistle stop 🤬
#DemVoice1 #Voice4Victory #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited via @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, Cranbury NJ Oct. 2 www.instagram.com/reel/DPUeM5T...
        
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      UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
        In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
      New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.
I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:
      
          I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:
Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime
          My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.
        
          
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      Our first ad of the general election starts airing tomorrow: “Things Can Change.”
    
        
        
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