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Lilia Cortina

@liliacortina.bsky.social
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UMich Professor. Feminist. Psychologist. Scientist. Mom. Most of the time, I’d rather be playing tennis. Views are my own. sites.lsa.umich.edu/liliacortina-lab

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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
(1/5) I keep hearing people say they're voting for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social in the primary to "follow their heart." The unspoken part: they know the odds are stacked against him beating Mike Rogers in November. That's tossing out your vote - and handing the seat to a Trump Republican 🧵
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Like clockwork.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My latest piece in @freep.com gives props to women calling out Trump and the GOP. Women are not waiting to be rescued. They are not looking away. They are standing up and speaking out. www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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Trump lies to the American people. Women are calling him out. | Opinion
Powerful women like Whitmer, Tlaib, Spanberger and Clinton used a turbulent week to call out Trump’s lies and cruelty, and model resistance.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
From day one, Trump’s policies have been a train wreck—especially for rural and remote communities, all with a big thumbs-up from their Republican reps. In my latest op-ed, I break down the impact here in Michigan: www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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Michigan agriculture struggles as Trump drives away migrant labor | Opinion
Trump’s Medicaid cuts, farmworker deportations and media defunding hit rural Michigan hardest — leaving hospitals, crops and communities at risk.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Delighted to share my latest journal article, on rolling back rudeness in the faculty workplace. Full text available here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Lena Kauffman @lena-kauffman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We closed the schools with no real plan for how to deal with the repercussions. Just magical thinking that online learning would be as good as in-person teachers. “Michigan 44th in 4th-grade reading, among bottom 10 for COVID learning loss, report finds” www.mlive.com/news/2025/05...
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Michigan 44th in 4th-grade reading, among bottom 10 for COVID learning loss, report finds
This Detroit-based nonprofit utilized its 2025 state of education report to call for better school funding and transparency systems from lawmakers.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My latest piece in the Detroit Free Press, taking on myths and misconceptions about DEI 👇 www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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DEI isn't about hiring quotas. It's about opportunity. | Opinion
Detractors reduce DEI to racist rhetoric and bureaucratic bloat. The vision they invoke is an unkind caricature. A distortion. A fiction.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/05/2025
At a Tuesday night rally in Michigan, President Donald Trump bragged about his economic policies of the last three months. By Wednesday morning, new data showed the first deceleration of the U.S. economy in three years, and analysts said the country was inching closer to a recession.
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Trump ran on boosting prosperity. Now, economic uncertainty grows.
The messaging strategy does not appear to be working for a president whom voters returned to the White House largely to address economic concerns.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Pew Research poll: Trump approval 40% approve 59% disapprove U.S. adults
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches. A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f
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Opinion | Donald Trump’s war on children
The administration is divesting from future generations. It will cost America dearly.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
TOMORROW- Make your voices heard at Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution)” - sign up NOW! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution) · Mobilize
NO KINGS! This a local Indivisible event! Nationwide protest in support of democracy and the US Constitution. The current regime has: illegally defied all court orders; unlawfully terminated federal e...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," immigrants, and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
How do you want tax dollars spent? Democrats use them to help everyone get ahead—like free school meals so kids can focus on learning. Trump? He wants to gut programs like this to pay for a $4.5 trillion tax cut for Elon Musk and the billionaire donors
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Thousands of Michigan kids could lose free school meals under GOP plan, state leaders say
Republicans say they want to make the change to ensure only the neediest students get free school meals.
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/04/2025
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In Massachusetts, a judge held ICE in contempt for arresting an immigrant during a jury trial. In Wisconsin, Susan Crawford just showed Elon Musk’s money the door. And in DC, Cory Booker swept Strom Thurmond back into the dustbins of history. We need these moments of hope. #MomSky
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Let’s see all those House Republicans in swing districts vote for those huge Medicaid cuts now to pair up with tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, on top of Trump throwing down his tariffs tomorrow. Good luck herding those cats, Mike Johnson.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.
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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Trump's latest assault on voting rights is a clear violation of the law and your right to have a say in our elections. Our Democratic leaders are fighting to defend the constitution and your fundamental freedoms.
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Michigan Democrats, advocates vow to fight Trump election order: ‘We’ll see him in court’ • Michigan Advance
Michigan officials are reacting to President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling how U.S. elections are administered, including requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Signed…
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/03/2025
Trump's in full retreat today as his poll numbers slip: He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress. He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession. He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law. Keep fighting.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/03/2025
"Free speech," Nazi style.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My latest op-ed, calling out Trump for his contempt for women 👇 www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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Who's the target of Trump's disdain? Often, it's women. | Opinion
The Trump Administration is doing a lot of things. What it's not doing: Respecting women.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
UPDATE: Judge CHUTKAN has called a 4pm hearing on the lawsuit over Elon Musk's authority to run DOGE.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A new hashtag is trending
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Why is President Musk so focused on defunding cancer research, food for poor kids, and health insurance for your grandma? Simple: he wants to divert those funds into big tax cuts for billionaires. Musk is already the richest guy in the world, but wants to be richer. And wants you to pay for it.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Holy shit this cartoon.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Should universities double down on DEI? If excellence is the goal, the answer is simple: 100% yes. A synopsis of the science explaining why 👇🏼 www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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DEI is secret sauce of University of Michigan's success | Opinion
Critics of DEI often suggest that it leads to inferior outcomes. At the University of Michigan, that's just not true.
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Wiley Nickel @wileynickel.com · 17/01/2025
2009 Obama 28°F 1977 Carter 28°F 1961 Kennedy 22°F It’s not about the cold… it’s about the small crowd size.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/01/2025
We told you, Donald, it was going to get embarrassing. 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-hum...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I was really hoping we'd have a woman as president before we had one from South Africa, but here we are.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What black students at Michigan actually think of criticisms of DEI at U-M: www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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Making sense of the moment: A Black student perspective on the attack on DEI
We believe in the power and necessity of radical dreaming, and believe that our visions for what can be should never succumb to the limits of what is.
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Undark Magazine @undark.org · 22/11/2024
"Schools should be the last to close, first to open." Former COVID-19 czar Ashish Jha critiques prolonged school closures and calls for better pandemic preparedness.
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Interview: What Biden's Covid Czar Learned From the Pandemic
Ashish Jha, the former White House Covid-19 response coordinator, discusses the country's successes and mistakes.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15/11/2024
If it would've absolved Matt Gaetz, the House Ethics Committee report into him would have been released already. Just saying.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
40 out of 44 of Trump's former cabinet would not endorse him. Many of his former staffers turned against him. Anyone with integrity will not work for him. As a result, he's not picking from the bottom of the barrel. He's picking from the crap that wasn't good enough for the barrel.
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Lilia Cortina @liliacortina.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Deeply unethical, rapey felon nominates deeply unethical, rapey sex trafficker for AG. These are kindred spirits looking after one another. Why is anyone shocked?
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