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Tim Carney
@TPCarney
Suburban dad of six kids. Author, "Family Unfriendly" and "Alienated America." Examiner senior columnist. AEI senior fellow.
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Oct 24 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Lots of Republican triumphalism today, 12 days before Election Day.
1) That's a long time.
2) Trump is a really bad candidate, whom millions of Americans dislike and distrust for good reason.
I'd bet on Trump, given even odds, but it's still early and still very close. ...but given how clearly unfit and grossly off-putting Trump is, and how Harris had a big lead in the summer, how has she fallen behind?
Because she's so clearly unqualified--she has no idea what she's talking about and inspires no confidence...
Oct 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If Harris is the president, I expect religious persecution. That's why I simply cannot understand any conservative who is voting for Harris. Fine, don't vote for Trump, but voting for Harris is voting to bring federal prosecutors down on Catholic schools, nuns, homeschoolers... Maybe I'm wrong. It's possible that her no-accommodation line is meaningless logorrhea coming out of her mouth. It's possible that she launched the prosecution of Daleiden knowing it would go nowhere. It's possible I'm being paranoid. But I am very worried.
Sep 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Tens of thousands of people with severe disabilities enjoy productive jobs thanks to an array of public assistance, nonprofit charity, and federal labor laws.

Vice President Kamala Harris has pledged to outlaw those jobs.

washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/31536… Federal labor law accommodates jobs for the severely disabled by allowing for a special minimum wage—workers may be paid at a piece rate (strictly dictated by regulation) while receiving all sorts of care (bathroom, feeding, behavioral).
washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/31536…
Apr 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I read @KerryHowley's piece on scientist/podcaster/influencer Andrew Huberman. I thought it was very well written, and it tells a valuable story. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/294382… "The closest thing to virtue throughout this tale is “self-improvement.” Self-improvement is surely part of virtue, and it can easily be confused for the entirety of virtue. But self-improvement in the optimizers’ sense is entirely inward-focused — self-centered in a literal sense of the phrase."

washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/294382…
Feb 27 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
My baby arrived. Image I feel like sharing a bit tonight about how a book gets written.
The story is different for every book. Family Unfriendly’s origin story begins in Alienated America, my 2019 book....
Dec 4, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Reading this now. vox.com/features/23979… "Today, the question of whether to have kids generates anxiety far more intense than your garden-variety ambivalence. For too many, it inspires dread."

I have found that this is definitely true.
Jul 1, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Clarence Thomas correctly cited a factually accurate objection to the COVID vaccines--that they were developed using a cell line derived from aborted babies. NBC News, Politico, and Axios went after him anyway. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/aborti… Politico wrote in its tweet “No Covid vaccines in the U.S. contain the cells of aborted fetuses.”

Great. Clarence Thomas never said any vaccines contained the cells of aborted fetuses. He never cited anyone making that claim. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/politi…
Jul 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Three of these stories (NBC, Politico, and Axios) went up smearing Thomas, and all seemed borne out of a viral Mark Joseph Stern tweet. Some stories have issued minor corrections, but most of these bad tweets (from outlets and reporters!) are still up. In case you fell for the NBC, Politico, or Axios story you can read my piece (forthcoming) that explains why they are BS stories. I just hope Edelman, NBC, Axios, and Politico all take down their BS tweets and stories entirely this morning. It's embarrasing.
Apr 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
PUT IT IN THE BOOKS!!!!!! Megill didn’t know it was a no hitter until after he came out!
Feb 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This company's very name is a nod to regulatory arbitrage--Reserve Trust. It's the only state-chartered trust with access to the Federal Reserve's Master Account--and that's their selling point.
How did they get that access? Sarah Bloom Raskin. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-ra… Former Fed Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin was brought onto the board of this fintech company called Reserve Trust, whose selling point would be special access to the Fed. She called the Fed and lobbied them. It worked. She cashed out $1.5M.
But there's more. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-ra…
Aug 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I don’t think this speech is all that bad. Lots of bad in it, but some important truth. Permanent occupation in Afghanistan wasn’t worth it.
Aug 30, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I have a lot of ideas all the time. My bride often finds them foolish. Today, for the last day of summer, she loved my idea: Buy 2 fried chicken sandwiches each from (1) Popeyes (2) Chick-Fil-A (3) BK (4) McDs and (5) KFC, and cut them in quarters. Then a blind taste-test. My wife has added Wendy’s to the list.
Jul 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I will eat a Kale Salad if Diaz doesn’t blow this save. If Conforto puts us up 3 here, Diaz has a chance.
Jul 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Six months ago today, I attended Trump's rally at the mall and walked with his supporters to the Capitol, where I witnessed rioters at two different doors try to break into the Capitol for the purpose of preventing the certification of Biden's win. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column… Does Trump bear blame for this anti-democratic violent attack? Yes. Here's the simplest way to understand why. (I wrote this during the impeachment.) washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hang-p…
Jun 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On a June afternoon, I picked up my children from their last day of school. It was a school year my county government tried to deny us.
washingtonexaminer.com/politics/endin… We never closed, there were no bad cases, no large outbreaks. But I am still almost overwhelmed by a persisting bitterness that our county tried to ban in-person schooling. Officials said sending our kids to school would be unsafe. We knew they were wrong. washingtonexaminer.com/politics/endin…
Jun 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Three pitches. Three strikes. All of them 3 digits. 8 pitches. 2 Ks.
May 24, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Gen X, quietly, is still the best. “Slackers” lol.
Dec 9, 2020 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
All the middle-of-Maryland counties are having a joint press conference today to talk COVID. Montgomery, PG, Howard, Harford, Anne Arundel, Frederick, Baltimore City, and Baltimore County. Dr. Thomas Inglesby of Johns Hopkins points out that the number of Marylanders hospitalized with COVID are at their highest levels ever, and warns that hospitals could soon hit limits....
Dec 7, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Biden picks abortion crusader and culture warrior Xavier Becerra as HHS chief washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-… Xavier Becerra is, no surprise, an absolutist on abortion. He won't brook restrictions on partial-birth abortion, sex-selective abortion, or any abortion at all. But that's not all... washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-…
Dec 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Biden is picking a carceral culture warrior for HHS. If you hoped he was peacemaker, your hopes are dashed. Picking Becerra at HHS makes it perfectly clear what he values in the man: Not any nods towards progressivism on criminal justice, but ruthless culture war.
Nov 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
And a corollary here is that organizing and campaigning is close to the heart of left activists, since they see it as the highest form of citizenship. Campaigning well is virtue for them. In the place where many of us put PTA work, little league coaching, etc, a lot of folks have substituted political activism. And in AOC-type corners, that includes mobilizing and organizing otherwise detached/ambivalent people.