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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.
Tim Graham retweeted
Operatives aligned with Alaska Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from her Republican rival. The group worked to coax would-be spoilers into the race to dilute the incumbent's support. nyti.ms/3U1qsP1
Tim Graham retweeted
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…
Tim Graham retweeted
The latest issue of Vetus Testamentum features a statement from the editors: "We reject with prejudice the usage of GenAI for brainstorming, structuring, and composing studies of the biblical text and its historical and social contexts."
Tim Graham retweeted
NEW: The Supreme Court declined to immediately restore a Biden-era rule allowing immigration judges to temporarily suspend deportation proceedings. A federal judge vacated the rule nationwide in June after Texas sued and the Trump administration agreed it was unlawful.
Tim Graham retweeted
Tomorrow we're releasing a full UATX course for free: all 19 lectures of Professor Isabella Reinhardt's Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome, filmed in class with our students.
It runs from Rome's mythical founding to the Third Century Crisis. It ends on a question the class spent a whole session arguing about: did Rome ever really fall?
