Billy Binion

This is Karyann Parkinson and her five kids. She just received a 6-month suspended jail sentence and is now on Virginia's child abuse registry. Her crime: letting her 5-year-old, Sam, walk a half-mile alone in their gated community. She's not the first. A thread.

Alexandra Woodward was arrested in 2025 and charged with first-degree *child cruelty* for...leaving her 8- and 10-year-old boys home alone for a couple of hours. They were safe. Nothing happened to them. Who is this helping? /9 reason.com/2025/05/29/m...

This is Karyann Parkinson and her five kids. She just received a 6-month suspended jail sentence and is now on Virginia's child abuse registry. Her crime: letting her 5-year-old, Sam, walk a half-mile alone in their gated community. She's not the first. A thread.

It's ironic this happened to Parkinson. She's a former family life educator & spent 3 years as a live-in behavioral specialist at a residential treatment center, where she and her husband—a marriage & family therapist—oversaw the care of 35 girls. She's no unfit mother. /7

This is Karyann Parkinson and her five kids. She just received a 6-month suspended jail sentence and is now on Virginia's child abuse registry. Her crime: letting her 5-year-old, Sam, walk a half-mile alone in their gated community. She's not the first. A thread.

...A judge convicted Parkinson of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. It comes with a 6-month jail sentence. The judge suspended that—pending good behavior. But the conviction could stop her from volunteering at her kids' schools & may keep her from her law license. /5

This is Karyann Parkinson and her five kids. She just received a 6-month suspended jail sentence and is now on Virginia's child abuse registry. Her crime: letting her 5-year-old, Sam, walk a half-mile alone in their gated community. She's not the first. A thread.

...A passerby saw her son & alerted security. A guard took him home & told him bad people would want to take him if he was out alone. Parkinson says that "scared the crap out of him." Soon there were three cop cars, three officers, and two CPS workers at Parkinson's door. /3

This is Karyann Parkinson and her five kids. She just received a 6-month suspended jail sentence and is now on Virginia's child abuse registry. Her crime: letting her 5-year-old, Sam, walk a half-mile alone in their gated community. She's not the first. A thread.

The best thing about these Flock controversies is they're exposing how shoddy some police work is. This cop accosted an innocent woman & said he was "100%" sure she was a thief. Why? Because Flock saw her car around the time of a theft—and he didn't bother to...do an actual investigation.

One of the most maddening parts of these stories is how bad cops often keep their badges. The officer harassing the woman on video was previously fired from another department for breaking the law. Yet here he is, still with a taxpayer-funded gun. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

The best thing about these Flock controversies is they're exposing how shoddy some police work is. This cop accosted an innocent woman & said he was "100%" sure she was a thief. Why? Because Flock saw her car around the time of a theft—and he didn't bother to...do an actual investigation.

That clip is hard to watch. The woman is (understandably) very confused as the cop harasses her. Police only dropped the case after she provided cellphone tracking data, footage from her car, and video placing her elsewhere. But they never should've gone after her to begin with.

This story is a nightmare. Texas cops fired dozens of tear gas grenades into an innocent woman's home. They smashed windows and drove through her front door. Her daughter's dog went deaf & blind. Then the city left her with the bill. Six years later, her saga is finally coming to an end. A thread.

The Supreme Court rejected Baker’s case in 2024. So there will continue to be more victims. But Baker did manage to get some good news. A judge ruled she could sue under the state constitution instead—an option many people are not afforded. /9 reason.com/2024/12/23/a...

This story is a nightmare. Texas cops fired dozens of tear gas grenades into an innocent woman's home. They smashed windows and drove through her front door. Her daughter's dog went deaf & blind. Then the city left her with the bill. Six years later, her saga is finally coming to an end. A thread.

Baker is not the first. A SWAT team destroyed Leo Lech’s $580,000 home after a suspect broke in. He had to demolish the house and take out a $390,000 loan. The city gave him $5,000, and the Supreme Court declined to hear his case. /7 reason.com/2020/06/29/s...

This story is a nightmare. Texas cops fired dozens of tear gas grenades into an innocent woman's home. They smashed windows and drove through her front door. Her daughter's dog went deaf & blind. Then the city left her with the bill. Six years later, her saga is finally coming to an end. A thread.

The city tried to stop Baker from suing. She did anyway. A judge let her suit proceed in 2021, and a jury awarded her $60,000 in 2022. Then a federal court overturned that judgement in 2023—over three years after the raid. The reason why tells you a lot about this debate. /5

This story is a nightmare. Texas cops fired dozens of tear gas grenades into an innocent woman's home. They smashed windows and drove through her front door. Her daughter's dog went deaf & blind. Then the city left her with the bill. Six years later, her saga is finally coming to an end. A thread.

Police did $60,000 in damages to Baker's house. Her insurance declined to help, as many policies don’t reimburse when the government is at fault. But the government told Baker she didn’t meet its definition of a "victim." This is what the outside of the home looked like. /3

This story is a nightmare. Texas cops fired dozens of tear gas grenades into an innocent woman's home. They smashed windows and drove through her front door. Her daughter's dog went deaf & blind. Then the city left her with the bill. Six years later, her saga is finally coming to an end. A thread.

Viktor Orban is one of the most corrupt living politicians. He cozied up to Putin, expanded & packed the Supreme Court with loyalists, crippled economic growth with central planning & political favors, and killed media outlets for criticizing him. Amazing news for Hungarians.

I waited nearly 3.5 hours in a TSA line—and *still* almost missed my flight. The ability to get home shouldn’t hinge on Congress doing its job. Why are we still tolerating this? Nothing has made a better case for abolishing the TSA than this shutdown. I wrote about it: reason.com/2026/03/26/i...

TSA isn’t even good at what it does. The agency missed *95 percent* of explosives & weapons in an undercover DHS investigation. The real security upgrade after 9/11 was locking cockpit doors. Everything else is mostly security theater. reason.com/2026/03/26/i...

I waited nearly 3.5 hours in a TSA line—and *still* almost missed my flight. The ability to get home shouldn’t hinge on Congress doing its job. Why are we still tolerating this? Nothing has made a better case for abolishing the TSA than this shutdown. I wrote about it: reason.com/2026/03/26/i...

People act like TSA is the only way to do airport security. That’s wrong. Several airports—including San Francisco—use private contractors to do screening. They haven’t missed potential terror attacks, and they don’t have mile-long lines right now. We don’t have to accept chaos.

This article epitomizes why I stopped taking the Oscars seriously. It highlights Chalamet’s (correct) opera/ballet comments and his general ~vibe~ as emblematic of why he lost. Which is to say: it’s not about merit. It’s about who runs the best campaign. Endlessly silly.

I used to work at an opera company. Paychecks bounced—because there were times when they had $0 in the bank. Glib phrasing aside, Timothée Chalamet was right: few people care about opera. Absurd that there’s international furor because an actor said a benign fact. www.thefp.com/p/im-a-forme...

Kristi Noem smeared dead Americans as “domestic terrorists.” She sent some asylum seekers to a third-world prison without due process. She spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting herself. Taxpayers paid her while she lied to them. That's her legacy.

Kristi Noem's tenure at Homeland Security was marked by a lot of dishonesty, a disregard for the Constitution, and a penchant for using public funds on self-promotion. Whatever your politics, that is the record she leaves behind.

Kristi Noem smeared dead Americans as “domestic terrorists.” She sent some asylum seekers to a third-world prison without due process. She spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting herself. Taxpayers paid her while she lied to them. That's her legacy.

Noem has spent a lot of taxpayer money. DHS bought a luxury $70 million jet equipped with a private cabin. Noem has been using it to travel with Corey Lewandowski, the adviser with whom she is allegedly having an affair. reason.com/2026/02/13/h...

Kristi Noem smeared dead Americans as “domestic terrorists.” She sent some asylum seekers to a third-world prison without due process. She spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting herself. Taxpayers paid her while she lied to them. That's her legacy.

Noem threatened to have people prosecuted & jailed for filming law enforcement, despite the fact that 7 federal circuit courts have confirmed that this is a basic First Amendment right. Free speech still applies when inconvenient. reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

Kristi Noem smeared dead Americans as “domestic terrorists.” She sent some asylum seekers to a third-world prison without due process. She spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting herself. Taxpayers paid her while she lied to them. That's her legacy.

After shipping hundreds of men to a brutal megaprison—without due process—she showed up in El Salvador to film content wearing a $50,000 watch. Some of those men had sought asylum here legally. reason.com/2025/03/27/k...

Kristi Noem smeared dead Americans as “domestic terrorists.” She sent some asylum seekers to a third-world prison without due process. She spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting herself. Taxpayers paid her while she lied to them. That's her legacy.