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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
woman retweeted
People don't understand how much VH1 contributed to cultural literacy. Yeah you were high on the couch watching hours of Pop Up video & I Love The (pick a decade) but you were also getting an education in cultural history. We could use more of that, now, & less tik tok slop.
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you’re laughing…. a bunch of boomers who fucked the next generation over to sell their homes at a 7400% profit and then used the money to buy a ticket for an eternity cruise are now broke and stranded in a Cambodian port town notorious for human trafficking, and you’re laughing
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BREAKING: NYT reports that operatives with Democratic Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign were behind the effort to find & recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters and peel votes from him.
Specifically, NYT says they have reviewed text messages and documents that reveal in summer 2025, a Peltola staffer received instructions from campaign staffers to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible.
The staffer complied, going through voter records, and compiled a list. The operation “involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”
Per NYT:
“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.”
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
woman retweeted
The original NBC David Letterman show was not a dumb silly show, not by a long shot!
Here is Truman Capote, who wrote In Cold Blood, discussing other serial killers, and why many of them will kill again.
Imagining your life exists independently of your children is deranged. This is why everyone’s a psycho, mentally stunted and stuck in a middle school mentality. The bonus is your kids are infinitely more fun than your friends. Grow up.
woman retweeted
The United States admired the world over around 1960 was broadly homogeneous, a middle class people without excessive wealth disparities, a sense of itself - and an enemy to focus the mind (USSR).
That’s over. The people who should have maintained it just lined their pockets, opened the borders, lowered their own taxes, and sold their own fellow citizens down the river. What we live in now is the fallout of this betrayal.
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Tim Dillon: “Russia is the reason that Jeffrey Epstein had an island.”
“And hung out with US presidents.”
“And prime ministers of Israel.”
“Russia’s doing it all.”
“Flock cameras everywhere?”
“Russia.”
“Sam Altman gets $1 trillion from our government?”
“Russia did that.”
“You’re being told that you’re being kicked off Medicaid because we’re in a war with Iran?”
“Russia.”
“This is David Reaboi’s new book.”
“It’s about how Russia created the Epstein thing.”
“The Epstein Conspiracy: How Russia Turned a Lie About Jeffrey Epstein Into a Weapon Against Israel, America, and Jews.”
“You couldn’t write a more ridiculous title if you wanted to.”
“It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.”
“The facts of the guy’s life are the reason that people hold the beliefs they do.”
“The facts speak for themselves.”
“I’m not an idiot.”
“But this whole idea that Russia’s responsible for everything.”
“Russia installed Donald Trump.”
“And now the new book is that Russia invented Jeffrey Epstein.”
“You see how it works?”
@TimJDillon
Leaving towels on the floor at a Hyatt is animal behavior. They need to raise their prices.,
AirBNB had its place and time, but it’s over. Had a lovely stay at a Hyatt last night, left trash in the can, towels on the ground, and am confident my corporate overlord isn’t going to light me up with a guest review video. A professional exchange of goods for money. The AirBNB hosts did this to themselves and the platform lost control long ago.
woman retweeted
Laken Riley had a Garmin smartwatch on when she was attacked
Her heart rate jumped to 170 bpm which told investigators that was when she was being attacked
It lasted for 17 minutes then suddenly stopped - that's when the animal finally killed her
So the next time you want to tell me about how unfair illegal immigrants are being treated I want you to set a timer for 17 minutes and watch it go by so you can understand how long that young woman fought for her life
woman retweeted
The factoid that '50% of marriages end in divorce' was kinda true decades ago.
But the divorce rate peaked in 1980.
Now, less than 40% of all marriages since 2000 end in divorce.
For college graduates, it's under 30%.
For college graduates who get married after age 25, and who don't have any kids before marriage, it's under 20%.
Anybody promoting the outdated, deceptive 50% rate has some kind of anti-marriage or anti-natalist agenda.
It scares young people away from getting married and having kids. That is their goal.
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Приятно видеть людей со стержнем и которые не гнуться.👍🏻
Пирс Морган: Я хочу ещё раз чётко прояснить вашу позицию. Вы не допустили бы во Францию ни одного мусульманского иммигранта?
Доминик Тарчинский: Нет.
Пирс Морган: Ни одного? Совсем никого?
Доминик Тарчинский: Нет. Ислам несовместим с западными ценностями.
Пирс Морган: То есть, по сути, вы хотели бы запретить всех мусульман во всех европейских странах?
Доминик Тарчинский: Мне плевать на остальные европейские страны. Я не хочу их в Польше. Они несовместимы с…
Пирс Морган: А что насчёт Франции? Или Англии?
Доминик Тарчинский: С Францией покончено. Франция пала. Всё кончено. Уже слишком поздно.
Пирс Морган: Вы считаете, что и Англия пала?
Доминик Тарчинский: Да.
Пирс Морган: Правда? На чём вы это основываете? Вы же прожили здесь пять лет. Вы сами были иммигрантом в моей стране, как ни иронично.
Доминик Тарчинский: И я платил налоги и ничего не жёг.
Пирс Морган: У меня нет к вам претензий из-за того, что вы здесь жили. Но на чём вы основываете утверждение, что моя страна пала? Я здесь живу, и это полная чушь.
Доминик Тарчинский: Мне вас жаль.
Пирс Морган: Почему? У меня вполне нормальная жизнь, спасибо.
Доминик Тарчинский: Ну да, у вас с финансами всё хорошо, а вот у большинства людей нет. Людей арестовывают за молитву на улицах, за посты в Facebook. А этот коммунист Стармер, которого я, кстати, подал в суд, ещё ответит за свои действия. Это коммунист. Это коммунистическая система.
Как вы знаете, я ехал по дипломатическому паспорту и мне запретили въезд в эту страну, чтобы выступить с речью. Если нет свободы слова, если людей арестовывают за молитву на улицах, в их мыслях…
Пирс Морган: Вы выступали на митинге Unite the Kingdom в Лондоне в сентябре 2025 года, организованном Томми Робинсоном.
Доминик Тарчинский: Верно.
Пирс Морган: Там были лозунги «отправить их обратно» про нелегальную иммиграцию. Что вы думаете о Томми Робинсоне? Вы его поклонник?
Доминик Тарчинский: Он мой друг.
Пирс Морган: Правда?
Доминик Тарчинский: Он хороший человек. Не папа римский. Не святой. Обычный человек со своей жизненной историей. За то, что он делает для идентичности этой нации, я его люблю. Мой друг, и я считаю его великим человеком.
Пирс Морган: Чтобы было ясно: если бы вы были британским политиком, вы бы требовали запретить всех мусульман?
Доминик Тарчинский: Да.
Пирс Морган: Хорошо. И то же самое во Франции?
Доминик Тарчинский: Да.
Пирс Морган: И в Германии?
Доминик Тарчинский: Пока европейцы, пока христиане не смогут строить церкви и соборы в Катаре, в Европе не должно быть ни одной мечети.
Пирс Морган: То есть вы бы, по сути, запретили всех мусульман?
Доминик Тарчинский: Да.
woman retweeted
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
This is nuts because in terms of “looks matching,” he’s the more attractive one. Women are delusional.
Gotta break with my boy on this one. The fewer people who fly, the better. This will never not be true.
Air travel is becoming a luxury.
Now that they killed competition, the big airlines are explicitly reducing the number of people who fly by increasing prices. Time to re-regulate the industry. cnbc.com/2026/10/23/airfare-…?
