Editor: @TalkingJoints | Co-Founder & Editorial Director: @BINJreports | Moonlight as Mass Magazine Man
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18 Sep 2024
27 states collect police employment data, so they know where cops formerly worked.
Invisible Institute has that info from 17 states in its new data tool it launched this week.
Unfortunately, Massachusetts doesn't have that info. We worked with them to find out why ...
18 Sep 2024
With all the natural sunshine this month, it is especially gratifying to announce this collaboration in which BINJ helped produce the #Massachusetts component of a national project on police transparency and accountability by @invinst ...
Read it here: horizonmass.news/2024/09/18/…
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Mar 16
I always thought that it was in the SPJ Code of Conduct to not reveal who Banksy is. WTF @Reuters ?!?
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Feb 25
'To prove my point that your average American is totally winning, here is a busload of elite athletes who will be called nazis and bigots for the rest of their lives because of their affiliation with me.' #SOTU2026
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Feb 25
I don't care if none of my friends are here anymore I'm going to tweet this #SOTU like I'm back at the old college bar by myself taking shots
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Feb 25
Imagine you're a professional newscaster covering the #SOTU and you suggest Fetterman is a moderate because he's been flanking Republicans
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Feb 18
Massachusetts cities and towns still aren't spending opioid remediation funds meant to mitigate the crisis.
The state fought against releasing this data, but we got it and built a dashboard so you can see if your town spent, how much, and on what.
binj.news/2026/02/11/million…
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7 Nov 2025
Come watch me, my friends, & @BINJdotNews staff roast the news, pop culture, & the state of the world Saturday afternoon!
Everyone at DigBsoton/BINJ were the most supportive & encouraging people I’ve ever worked with. I can’t wait to reunite for a fun afternoon of jokes.
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24 Oct 2025
Are the prohibitionists who are trying to end adult-use #cannabis in #Massachusetts playing fair? What do you think? #mapoli
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2 Oct 2025
New @BINJreports feature by Eliza Dewey ...
Boston Police Deployed 71 Drone Flights Over Caribbean Carnival
And that's not all ...
horizonmass.news/2025/10/02/…
#Boston #BPD #drones #surveillancestate #mapoli
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28 Sep 2025
NEW from BINJ: While Researching The Salem Witch Trials, He Learned His Relative Was Among The Accused
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18 Sep 2025
Major WOW kind of news tonight in the inexorably intertwined worlds of #Massachusetts #politics and #cannabisculture ...
talkingjointsmemo.com/shanno…
#mapoli
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4 Sep 2025
Tape measuring stick came out just outside City Hall today to see if candidate Frank Baker's sign was too close to the building, which is an early voting location
Mass. has 150-ft rule on campaigning close to voting locations
(Photo by my StateHouseNews colleague Sam Drysdale)
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27 Aug 2025
I like to stand outside the Museum of Ice Cream asking the suburbanites in queue if they have ever been to the ICA down the street.
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11 Aug 2025
talkingjointsmemo.com/the-sh… @Fara1 The Shakedown Sheriff: How Steven Tompkins Nickel And Dimed His Way To Indictment #mapoli
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27 Jul 2025
Imagine any other entity doing the shit they have done and getting this treatment ...
masslive.com/news/2025/07/ma…
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19 Jun 2025
It sucks for Karen Read supporters that there are no other people being falsely accused of committing crimes in Massachusetts. Back to looking for deals at Kohl's I guess.
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19 Jun 2025
The funny thing is that anyone who wants to prove me wrong here could just simply amplify any of the reporting my team at @BINJreports does on prison and parole in Mass, but of course that is unlikely to happen.
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