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My new book, "Family Unfriendly," is on the shelves. Pick it up! Catholic. Husband. Dad of six. Examiner columnist. AEI scholar.

Washington, DC
Joined August 2008
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Tim Carney
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Children are anxious. Parents are stressed. Birthrates are at record lows. The problem is our family unfriendly culture. Parenting culture is too intense. Mating & Dating culture is dysfunctional. And our values are too individualistic. So I wrote a book.
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This one’s golden.
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Tim Carney
4 years
If coronavirus and 9/11 are the two biggest events of our life, what is the third? (If you don't recall 9/11 or do recall Nixon resigning, you're not the target demo for this Q.)
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Tim Carney
2 years
I feel like almost all of my closest professional friends are pro-vax, anti-vax-mandate, mask-skeptical, anti-school closure. (My governor is, too.) This set of positions should have a name.
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Tim Carney
2 years
They literally didn't let us attend funerals in 2020.
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The Washington Post
2 years
Sex is a major driver of the global monkeypox outbreak. But health officials and longtime HIV activists say calls for abstinence don’t work.
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3 years
Everyone's talking about "stimulus." I want something simpler. I want existing small businesses not to have to close thanks to the virus and lockdowns.
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3 years
The next reporter should simply ask "are you okay?"
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Tim Carney
4 years
Literally the most encouraging story I have heard about Trump as president.
@DempMcgee
Band Aid King Dempsey: Emotionally damaged
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Holy shit
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Tim Carney
4 years
How can this tweet be covered by the First Amendment...
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J.A. Adande
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How can high-capacity gun magazines be covered by the second amendment when they didn’t exist when the second amendment was written?
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2 years
Remember how this was supposed to make Trump look bad?
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Edward-Isaac Dovere
6 years
German delegation reaction to President Trump at the UN saying they're on track to become totally dependent on Russian oil:
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President Trump's crazed Twitter rant on Joe Scarborough was vile and unworthy of his office. Some will undoubtedly shrug it off as Trump being Trump, but one could hardly be blamed for reading it and doubting his fitness to lead. //Our editorial >>
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Tim Carney
4 years
Sandman was the perfect villain for the major media: White student at an all-boys' Catholic school, at a pro-life march, wearing a MAGA hat. That's why they all decided instantly he was the villain. That's why they wanted to punch him. That's why they didn't care about the facts
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4 years
I worry for Shaun King's mental health. Seriously. You don't call for widespread desecration and vandalization of churches unless something is deeply deeply wrong.
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Tim Carney
4 years
I won't vote for Joe Biden. But I'll admit that following this convention, and watching tonight particularly, has made me want to be a better dad.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Has anyone undermined or refuted Luke’s reporting here? How is this not the biggest story in America?
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Luke Rosiak
3 years
I'll be on @TuckerCarlson at 8:40pm on how a school system apparently hid a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing male, arrested the victim's father, who was likened to a domestic terrorist, & left the suspect in school, where he was arrested for a new classroom sex assault last week.
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Tim Carney
3 months
...and to shopping bags you shall return.
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3 years
@RadioFreeTom Government infringed on his constitutional right. That seems like a good reason to get in the game.
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Tim Carney
2 years
When people winning elections are “threats to global democracy” one begins to suspect that the concern isn’t really about “democracy.”
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Matt Viser
2 years
Pres. Biden raised threats to global democracy last night -- pointing to Italy. “You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election. You’re seeing what’s happening around the world. The reason I bother to say that is you can’t be sanguine about what’s happening here either”
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Tim Carney
4 years
So now that Biden called her Camel-a, can we drop the pearl-clutching everytime a conservative or Republican mispronounces her name?
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Tim Carney
3 years
Credit where it's due: I didn't think Biden would deliver on the "Kid Cages at 100% Capacity Amid Pandemic" campaign promise this quickly.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Texts from Biden campaign are basically “Hi, my name is Haley, and I’m a senior at Iowa State. I’m just writing to ask...” Texts from Trump are like: “Have you SERIOUSLY not donated? Why do HATE AMERICA! Are you on the side of PELOSI????”
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Tim Carney
4 years
I find it very suspicious the Yankees’ team average was .267 last season. That would imply hitters are getting partial hits, down to the thousandths, which would be odd.
@mitchellvii
Bill Mitchell
4 years
Interesting that ActBlue raised an average donation of $30.38. This would imply people are donating in uneven numbers, including pennies, which would be odd. OR it would indicate untraceable foreign donations and an exchange rate translation, which would be illegal.
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Tim Carney
4 years
B E N G H A Z Intervening in Libya without congressional authorization was illegal, and imprudent. The disastrous results were predictable, especially after Iraq. The number one advocate for this invasion was Susan Rice.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Holding an outdoor funeral for your mother, with 30 attendees, would be illegal in Philadelphia today, on the grounds that it would be an impermissible danger of spreading COVID.
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Power to the People ☭🕊
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This is Philadelphia. This is not a moment. This is a movement to end the era of police brutality and white supremacist capitalism and begin the era of racial and economic justice in America. #BlackLivesMattters
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Tim Carney
4 years
Pence never answered the Roe question, but thank God he proudly declared his pro-life position and explained that Kamala and Biden are for taxpayer-funded abortions.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Is the virus dangerous enough that we should vaccinate people with a vaccine that might possibly (but probably not) have a 1-in-7 million chance of a deadly blood clot? If the virus is not that dangerous, how can we justify continued closures of schools, main streets, etc?
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Harming children to make adults feel like they’re doing something
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3 years
love this site.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Got it just in time.
This Himalayan Rock Salt is 250 million years old but expires next year. Makes perfect sense.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Trump has magical powers. He's getting them to cancel Susan B. Anthony.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Vaccinate the teachers. Open the schools.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Sweet. I’m going to import or manufacture for sale traditional incandescent light bulbs.
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Tim Carney
4 years
The sitting president advertising his business is embarrassing. Tying it to his office is corrupt. He's telling lobbyists, "pay me to visit me here."
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Good for Kristen Welker.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Guys, gonna check off Twitter and out of the news for a bit so I can review some documents.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Why would you force or pressure a previously infected nba player to get a vaccine?
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Tim Carney
4 months
I have no appetite for conservative snark on this. This is a personal disaster for these journalists, and shrinking newspapers is bad for America—and good for crooked or inept politicians.
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David Folkenflik
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LATimes confirms 115 journalists laid off, or about 23 percent; newsroom will be at approx 385. NOTE: Taken in combination with last year's layoffs, the Los Angeles Times has laid off about one third of its newsroom in less than a year.
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Abortion is the deliberate taking of a human life. Here’s how an abortionist describes it.
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3 years
To hell with this.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Biden has dramatically changed his public option plan tonight.
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Tim Carney
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This, for me, sets the frame of the entire war.
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Aviva Klompas
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200 days ago, Hamas massacred this family in their home. They shot parents, Johnny and Tamar, and burned their three young children to death. Do not for one moment forget how this war began.
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Tim Carney
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Okay. I’ve realized that Gemini is just one big send up. Good job, Google, you got me.
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Tim Carney
4 years
I love mocking limousine liberals as much as anyone, but when an airline upgrades a frequent flyer, and the flyer, who is old and traveling constantly, takes the more comfortable seat--while flying commercial--0 people should give him crap for it.
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Julia Ioffe
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Someone I follow on Instagram flew first class—with Bernie. 😬
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Tim Carney
2 years
"He's an illegitimate president." Hillary Clinton "We didn't lose." Stacey Abrams "Russia hacked the election." -Every single democrat and liberal talking head
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Greg Sargent
2 years
"No Democratic candidate is talking about what has become standard fare among Republicans: simply not accepting defeat when you lose an election." @kerryeleveld on the fundamental asymmetry of our politics.
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Tim Carney
3 years
I hear the political consultants DeSantis didn’t hire have bad things to say about DeSantis.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Guy interrupts Biden rally. “My wife left me”. Asks for how to get her back. Biden says he’ll talk afterwards. When guy won’t sit down, Biden says “I’m beginning to see why your wife left you.”
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Tim Carney
4 years
Biden will hike middle class taxes by repealing taxes?
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Tim Carney
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Since the pandemic is evidently over, what purpose do continuing restrictions serve?
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Tim Carney
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I kinda thought the Harpers letter was pointless. Then it instantly outed everyone who WANTS there to be a climate of fear. So it was a great service.
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Tim Carney
3 years
The popular implication that Americans avoid teaching schoolkids about slavery is laughably wrong in my experience. What gets left out, in my experience, is how much worse things got after reconstruction....
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Tim Carney
2 years
No, just businesses like Masterpiece Cake Shop.
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Jared Polis
2 years
Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away. In CO, we don’t meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter . Hey @Disney we’re ready for Mountain Disneyland and @twitter we’re ready for Twitter HQ2, whoever your owners are
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Tim Carney
4 years
Half of twitter is celebrating Paul getting coronavirus, or subtly implying it’s karmic justice. You should be embarrassed.
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Tim Carney
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Trump has made Trump voters out of independents and Democrats and Democratic voters out of independent voters and Republicans, and the net effect is a massive surge for Democrats since Trump's election.
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Tim Carney
3 years
I "violated" CDC guidelines today by eating leftover chicken I hadn't reheated. You see, health authorities will always be single-minded and err on the side of caution, and a free people ought to weigh the official guidance against other considerations.
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Tim Carney
3 years
This is a formula to keep a mask mandate, closures, and lockdowns forever. At this point, it's irresponsible for Biden to allow Fauci on the air.
@DailyCaller
Daily Caller
3 years
CHUCK TODD: “Why does a vaccinated person have to wear a mask?" DR. FAUCI: "You dramatically diminish" possible Covid infection with a vaccine, but vaccinated people could still carry infection.”
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Tim Carney
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Parents, please check your children's candy. Last year, someone gave my son a chocolate bar with shredded, sweetened coconut inside.
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Tim Carney
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This is the weirdest friggin attack on behalf of an INCUMBENT.
@BorisEP
Boris Epshteyn
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This would be @JoeBiden ’s America. It’s a very scary place.
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Tim Carney
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What’s more aptly called a “book ban”? When a middle school library removes a book with porn in it? When the White House pressures the world’s largest bookseller to hide books whose content the WH dislikes?
@Jim_Jordan
Rep. Jim Jordan
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THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling pressure from the White House” Internal docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization indicate that @amazon bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS. 🧵 Thread:
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Tim Carney
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It's one thing when they just abandon the rules instantly. It's another when they try to reinstate them immediately again--all along pretending, at every step, that they weren't saying the opposite thing 10 seconds ago.
@RepValDemings
Former Congresswoman Val Demings
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The president’s plan to hold mass rallies in Florida and elsewhere as we experience a resurgence in COVID cases is irresponsible and selfish.
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Tim Carney
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Things you should tell people in person 1) You want to marry them 2) You are dying of cancer 3) They are dying of cancer 4) They are fired 5) They are promoted .... 1,217,978) You have an infectious disease that is spread by airborne droplets.
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Tim Carney
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Obviously the media dismissed the lab leak theory because it was something that people like Tom Cotton, Redfield, and Pompeo put out, and most editors and reporters begin from the assumption that those sorts of people are wrong while folks like Cuomo & Fauci are right.
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Tim Carney
2 years
Their religion is like 5 years old, and they already believe it should be the state religion forever.
@ethanclynne
Ethan Lynne
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Glenn Youngkin just removed the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion section of the Virginia Governor’s website. Sickening.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Seems bad for a party leader to throw around the word “illegitimate” when it is in fact legitimate.
@SenSchumer
Chuck Schumer
4 years
I am forcing a vote tonight to adjourn the Senate until after the November election. The GOP in the middle of a national election is using an illegitimate process to jam through a Supreme Court nominee to rip away health care from millions. Democrats are fighting to stop it.
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Tim Carney
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Klobuchar dropped out without media encomia. Gabbard remains in the race. The reason for the torrent of "Warren's failed candidacy is an indictment of the electorate" pieces is obvious: Warren was the favored candidate of a vast majority of the news media.
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Tim Carney
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This is confusing if you think of ACLU as a civil liberties organization.
@nypost
New York Post
4 years
Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford accepts ACLU 'courage' award
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Tim Carney
3 years
No person can seriously believe that Biden's Michigan margin of > 140,000 votes was due to fraud or anything like that. This is insane behavior.
@JennaEllisEsq
Jenna Ellis
3 years
🚨🚨BREAKING: This evening, the county board of canvassers in Wayne County, MI refused to certify the election results.  If the state board follows suit, the Republican state legislator will select the electors. Huge win for @realDonaldTrump
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Tim Carney
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The largest city in your state is getting looted and destroyed, maybe focus on that, boss.
@NYGovCuomo
Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo
4 years
The president is calling out the American military against American citizens. He used the military to push out a peaceful protest so he could have a photo op at a church. It's all just a reality TV show for this president. Shameful.
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Tim Carney
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It's true that people shouldn't treat themselves with horse dewormer paste from Tractor Supply. It's terribly misleading, though, to claim that "Ivermectin is a horse medicine." It's regularly prescribed to humans. Persisting in your condescending snark makes you untrustworthy.
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Tim Carney
3 years
If you refuse to eat cicadas, people will think you're a Republican.
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Tim Carney
10 months
Newsom isn’t left wing?
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
10 months
Republican presidential hopeful and right-wing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has agreed to finally meet California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on the debate stage. Fox News host Sean Hannity will moderate the live debate.
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Tim Carney
2 years
Pray for President Biden.
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Hunter graduated law school in May 1996, and within a few months, he landed a job at MBNA. Less than two years after graduating law school, by age 28, Hunter was a senior vice president at MBNA, which was his father’s largest donor.
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Tim Carney
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This is the left-leaning media in a capsule. See, they have SCIENCE on their side, and Experts. It’s not their opinion. It’s SCIENCE.
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Tim Carney
3 years
What the hell?
@MaryMargOlohan
Mary Margaret Olohan
3 years
From CNN (blanket statement, no source/quote): "​It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth."
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Tim Carney
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This tweet literally proves everything every conservative has been saying about the media. It's like an over-the-top movie reveal scene where the bad guy just comes out and admits their evil plot.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Get this: The priest AOC attacked as a colonizer, Fr. Damien, was--for his sacrificial work on behalf of the unfortunate Hawaiian natives--bestowed with the highest honors by the very Queen AOC said was dishonored by Fr. Damien's statue.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Time to end all the crap.
@AP
The Associated Press
3 years
BREAKING: Pfizer says its experimental COVID-19 pill cut hospitalization and death by 90% and will seek authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators.
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Tim Carney
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Overpopulation is not what we should fear. The opposite is what we should fear.
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Tim Carney
4 years
This means war, and Blumenthal knows war.
@SenBlumenthal
Richard Blumenthal
4 years
If Republicans recklessly & reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.
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Tim Carney
3 years
She officiated a maskless indoor wedding AFTER her mask mandate went into effect. It’s not that she keeps slipping up and breaking her own rules: She created her own rules with no intention to follow them. She knows that vaxxed masking is pointless.
@TianaTheFirst
Tiana Lowe Doescher
3 years
When encountered by the Washington Examiner, Mayor Bowser confirmed that she officiated the maskless, indoor wedding, but when asked why she was violating her own mask mandate, her security retinue quickly escorted her away.
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Tim Carney
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Some millionaire Silicon Valley Bank depositor is going to get a bailout and his student loans cancelled in the same year by the same administration.
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@AyannaPressley
Ayanna Pressley
2 years
. @POTUS , it's time for a Black woman on the Supreme Court.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Your daily reminder what the pressure campaign on FB is about. The elite gatekeepers upset that the gates are not being properly kept.
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Tim Carney
4 years
This is another incoherent tweet. Nobody is “finding” new ballots. They are counting them. As expected, the mail-in ballots are disproportionately Dem, because (a) Trump discouraged vote by mail (b) Dems more fearful of public places amid Covid
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!
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Tim Carney
3 years
This will literally never end until everyone decides to ignore the orders. They’re going to use flu season as an excuse to continue mask mandates and other restrictions.
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Tim Carney
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The DOJ is totally uninterested in the destruction and vandalism of Catholic churches, but it is ferociously prosecuting every pro-lifer it can find, holding them to standards that no other protestor is held to.
@MaryMargOlohan
Mary Margaret Olohan
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Paul Vaughn, his wife, and his 11 children. Their father now faces 11 years in prison.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Biden’s decision to make the press the bad guy in the Afghanistan chaos is bizarre.
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Tim Carney
2 years
In case you’re wondering, a US-enforced no-fly zone is US entry into war.
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Tim Carney
4 years
Soledad is the type of person I block, because she's clearly full of hate and anger, and she uses her massive following to sic mobs on people. I don't want to be near that.
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Tim Carney
4 years
America is getting to see Sheldon Whitehouse for who he is.
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Tim Carney
3 years
Subsidizing child care makes no sense. If you're gonna spend money on parents, why not give them money and let them decide whether to spend it on daycare or working less?
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Tim Carney
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@WillOremus Isn’t he right on both?
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Tim Carney
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Our dictionaries are dishonest partisans. That's not healthy.
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Tim Carney
2 years
What are you afraid Elon will do to Twitter to make it worse?
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