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Tim Graham retweeted
We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
Tim Graham retweeted
I'm excited to announce this forthcoming book! It's a meditation about God's glory in the creation and the series editor is @samuel_parkison I'm grateful to partner with him!
link.amazon/B06FrqpSi
Tim Graham retweeted
Colleges and universities should immediately drop the now dumbed down SAT and replace it with the Classic Learning Test (CLT). At a minimum the CLT should be accepted as an alternative to the SAT and ACT.
thomasaquinas.edu/news/tac-s…
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NEW: Yesterday, @CalMatters published a sympathetic profile on a “Fresno father” who was “suddenly” deported by ICE to MX. He told the outlet he’s not a criminal & doesn’t know why he was targeted.
However, I’m told by federal sources that he has been deported from the U.S. five times before, he has an active deportation order, he has pending felony aggravated assault charges from November 2025, he has decades old convictions for DUI w/ bodily injury & negligent discharge of a firearm that resulted in prison sentences, and he admitted in a consensual interview w/ ICE that he’s been a member of the Fresno Bulldogs street gang.
I’m told his real name is LUIS ALBERTO ARREGUIN-VILLA, and he was previously deported from the US in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2003, and 2005, and that he admitted in an interview that he last crossed illegally into the U.S. in 2005 near San Ysidro, CA.
Under federal law, illegal re-entry after deportation is a felony via 8 USC 1326. He has illegally re-entered at least five times.
None of this context appears in the Cal Matters report.
calmatters.org/justice/2026/…
Tim Graham retweeted
Want to see a murder captured live? Watch this. 🤣
Becerra: “‘California’ has never had a governor from where I come from.”
@ZavalaA: “Sacramento?”
Disqualifying.
💀💀💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tim Graham retweeted
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
Tim Graham retweeted
While Xavier Becerra is a NO on Prop 40, the CA billionaire tax, he confirmed he's putting together his own wealth tax push if elected.
Becerra said he's looking at income, not assets.
"You want to make sure it's something that's fair, it's predictable, and it's stable."
Tim Graham retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Becerra comes out in favor of new "mileage tax."
Every California driver would be TRACKED and charged by the mile, costing an extra $1,000 a year!
California, this situation is dire. You can't afford more GOUGING! Elect me governor, and I'll VETO the mileage tax.
Tim Graham retweeted
A mileage tax in California?
Xavier Becerra says he would consider it, "everything should be on the table" to maintain roads and bridges.
"Do I want to tax people more than necessary? No.. Should people who drive EVs who don't need gas pay for those roads? Absolutely."
Tim Graham retweeted
It's almost as if there are students who want real classes and to actually learn things
“It’s the only class I took at Harvard where people would call each other out for not having done the reading.”
Harvard students are lining up to take Hum 10:
“Applications (essays required) shot up 40% this fall with 180 incoming freshmen vying for 90 spots.”
“The class is definitely not for padding the GPA. Students read a hefty book a week and write regular essays. There is no pass/fail option. Digital devices are verboten, and attendance is taken in every lecture (pink slips for those who arrive late).”
“In their applications and in interviews, students expressed the urge to be forced to tackle classics they otherwise wouldn’t read, the need to combat frayed attention spans and the desire for an antidote to The Machine. Several mentioned with disdain that people who aren’t in the class wondered why they didn’t ‘just Chat the books,’ i.e., use AI.”
Tim Graham retweeted
A review of The Cauldron @ft today: “A riveting look at the cultures, ideas and maddening complexity that made the modern region, both incredibly erudite and marvellously well written; the book sings…. it is a riveting deeply absorbing work that stands out for the grand vistas that it opens up before diligent readers….”
@DrRadchenko @wnbooks @Ed_Critica @KlettCottaTweet @CappelenDamm @Planetadelibros @AAKnopf
The Cauldron by Simon Sebag Montefiore — how the Middle East became a fiery brew ft.trib.al/BLYTNfF
Tim Graham retweeted
I’m a frequent critic of the NYT.
They brag they have 10 million subscribers. A former executive editor they said don’t vote for Donald Trump.
Today, the NYT committed old-fashioned journalism and they should be credited for it.
I wish they took on the Ds more often, as they always take on the Rs.
To state the obvious: If the @nytimes *only* wrote stories to help Democrats, they wouldn’t have written this one. My guess is they just guaranteed @DanSullivan_AK re-election. And they devoted a lot of investigative resources to do it.
Tim Graham retweeted
While some may try to write this off as just how politics works now, ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process. Run and win on your merits: your views, your policy ideas, and your accomplishments. By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong. Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign—what has been revealed is a pattern of lies and coverups and a culture of deception that belongs nowhere in our elections or among our elected officials.
Tim Graham retweeted
In her recent federal filing, Mary Peltola's counsel insisted, "DOJ's complaint is wholly baseless." Now the NY Times is reporting that her campaign was actively involved in seeking to confuse Alaskan voters by running decoy "Dan Sullivans." A staffer now says that Peltola knew about the effort to force voter confusion.
Tim Graham retweeted
The jig is up. Good for the NY Times for exposing it. The Dems are lying their butts off about it:
Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po… via @NYTimes
Tim Graham retweeted
Peltola camp has denied involvement in the other Sullivan's campaign. But interviews, text messages and documents show that not only did her team work with people trying to recruit Sullivan to run for Senate, the effort was much broader. @Kellen_Browning nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
Tim Graham retweeted
The NY Times is reporting that the Peltola campaign actively sought decoy "Dan Sullivans" to confuse Alaskan voters and draw votes away from the incumbent. According to a staffer, the very people claiming to be "defending democracy" sought to obstruct it. nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
Tim Graham retweeted
Everyone in the extremely damning @nytimes report exposing the Peltola/Democratic role in the Dans Sullivan Maneuver sure did seem to know that it would be bad if they got caught.
