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@billybinion Same! 3.5K views · 30 likes · 2 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

@billybinion Same, but I still use the em dash—don’t care! 700 views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

@billybinion I'm also a heavy dash user - but I was always too lazy to type an em-dash so just use a hyphen. Now that laziness is paying off 😄 1.7K views · 26 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

I really can’t emphasize enough how mad I am at AI for stealing the em dash from me. I was an em dash guy long before ChatGPT, and now every time I use one I wince knowing someone will think I’m a hallucinating robot. This is actual cultural appropriation. 61.6K views · 1K likes · 133 reposts · 102 replies Open on X →

@billybinion This is him btw https://t.co/dfGy5tcDft 1.2K views · 46 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

@billybinion @HistoryBoomer https://t.co/8fnZQD8pJf 3.5K views · 42 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

@billybinion Completely agreed. Want to talk tough, put your real name to it. 1.4K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

I’m inundated with comments like this these days. I find it funny that they essentially always come from anonymous accounts. (This one somehow has almost 300,000 followers.) If you’re going to cosplay as a tough guy on the internet, then stop being a coward and show your face. ht 25.6K views · 655 likes · 26 reposts · 39 replies Open on X →

The scariest thing about this story is that this mom is far from the first. We've published countless stories like this: moms arrested and jailed and accused of child abuse for...letting their kids go outside without them. That used to be normal. Crazy to criminalize it. 9.9K views · 269 likes · 31 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Accounts like this really are the worst. This guy essentially copied and pasted a @reason article, took the art we made, added "#BREAKING" and passed it off as his own work. The grifting is constant. Don't you have *any* shame? How are you not embarrassed? https://t.co/7l9XahGsFY 106.7K views · 2.1K likes · 201 reposts · 161 replies Open on X →

One of the biggest mistakes people make today: assuming every case is a symbol or a microcosm of society broadly, which you can use to confirm all of your priors. So someone like Lindsay Clancy becomes whatever you want her to represent. People who seriously believe the real 7.3K views · 204 likes · 36 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

@billybinion So this lady is on the child abuse registry — and nothing happened to her child! But a jury can’t find it in themselves to convict Lindsay Clancy who murdered her three children. The world is so dumb. 4.2K views · 630 likes · 31 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

@billybinion @emmma_camp_ I walked twice that to Kindergarten when I was 5! 39.4K views · 656 likes · 7 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

@FreeRangeKids Not long ago, reasonable childhood independence was normal. Now it's often treated as a crime. Karyann Parkinson was sentenced to 6 months in jail for...letting her kid walk down the street. Virginia sees her as a child abuser. Do you feel safer? /end https://t.co 68K views · 1.2K likes · 66 reposts · 45 replies Open on X →

@FreeRangeKids 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 https://t.co/GHrWXiYFjA 73.5K views · 1.1K likes · 46 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Even more depressing: Parkinson is far from the first. The great @FreeRangeKids has been documenting these stories for years. Georgia mom Brittany Patterson was *jailed* for letting her 10-year-old son walk alone in a rural town. 10 years old! /8 https://t.co/3h6qcQdILX 78.3K views · 1.4K likes · 65 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

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 79.1K views · 1.2K likes · 30 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Let's review: A mom of 5 now has a criminal record, is on a *child-abuse* registry, and could be sent to jail if she gives her young children independence again. This is the letter CPS sent her. It's so humiliating. /6 https://t.co/6CaCK464Ud https://t.co/KV55NiW2Cq 87.9K views · 1.3K likes · 59 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

...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 91.9K views · 1.1K likes · 27 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

CPS said Parkinson was guilty of child abuse and neglect for letting her son walk a half-mile alone. It placed her on the state registry, where she'll remain for 7 years. Yet the case really hit rock bottom last week when... /4 https://t.co/6CaCK464Ud 107.5K views · 974 likes · 32 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

...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. /3 112.1K views · 939 likes · 18 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Parkinson was 8 months pregnant when her son asked if he could walk to the pond & collect some goose feathers. It's a short trip down a sidewalk, which is separated from the street by about 10 feet of grass. He'd done it safely many times before. She said yes. But... /2 147.3K views · 1.1K likes · 28 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

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. https://t.co/ 2.5M views · 9.8K likes · 1.2K reposts · 576 replies Open on X →