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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 56m

Boston Protest Legend Rob Potylo Detained By ICE In Oregon

The performer also known as Robby Roadsteamer was reportedly released about an hour later

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 5h

Publicly Funding Grocery Stores Doesn’t Make Them Socialist: Dog whistle Herald banner headline is a classic example of the kind of news practice that has divided our nation horizonmass.news/2025/10/09/p... #journalism #criticism #BostonHerald #Boston

Publicly Funding Grocery Stores Doesn’t Make Them Socialist

Dog whistle Herald banner headline is a classic example of the kind of news practice that has divided our nation

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 5h

Proposed #BPS Exam School Admissions Changes Would Affect Minority And Low-Income Students

Among other adjustments, Boston would see one-fifth of seats reserved for the highest-scoring students citywide, regardless of family income level

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 4d

New reporting on #Massachusetts #Opioid Settlement Funds ...

Features by Jacob Schles and Chris Faraone are supported by the Data-Driven Reporting Project (DDRP) at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism

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#OpioidCrisis

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 5d

Somerville Kills Big Money Bid To Remove Boycott Measure From Ballot: A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned city councilor tried, and failed, to invalidate signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot horizonmass.news/2025/10/09/s... #politics #SomervilleMA #Gaza #democracy

Somerville Kills Big Money Bid To Remove Boycott Measure From Ballot

A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned city councilor tried, and failed, to invalidate signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 8d

The latest in our series ...

No #Opioid Settlement Funds Going To #Massachusetts #Prisons

The commonwealth will receive more than a billion dollars for remediation—none of it is for the state’s most vulnerable drug-dependent population

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#OpioidCrisis

BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 8d

Great to see so much media activity in Cambridge ...

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 12d

Keep Protesting For #Democracy: Three recent high-level orders make it clear that the #Trump administration is feeling the pressure from grassroots activists and the free press. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/10/02/k... #protest #freespeech #FirstAmendment #politics

Keep Protesting For Democracy

Three recent high-level orders make it clear that the Trump administration is feeling the pressure from grassroots activists and the free press

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 13d

NEW FROM BINJ: Boston Police Deployed 71 Drone Flights Over Caribbean Carnival

New records obtained by BINJ also confirm that BPD flew a drone over this year’s Dominican Parade

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 17d

NEW from BINJ: While Researching The Salem Witch Trials, He Learned His Relative Was Among The Accused

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 19d

How #Reddit Mods Are Hurting Indy News Outlets: Arbitrary and capricious rules created on too many subreddits by volunteer moderators make it tough for publications to build an audience on "the front page of the internet"—column by @jasonpramas horizonmass.news/2025/09/25/h... #journalism

How Reddit Mods Are Hurting Indy News Outlets

Arbitrary and capricious rules created on too many subreddits by volunteer moderators make it virtually impossible for independent journalists to use the supposedly open and democratic platform to hel...

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 20d

A short video about our latest feature on opioid settlement funding in #Massachusetts ...

This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since

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#AddictionRecovery #SubstanceUseDisorder #mapoli

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 22d

Check out BINJ Live #2 at 8 p.m. ET TONIGHT featuring Eliza Dewey, a noted Boston-based investigative journalist (and now BINJ reporter!) talking about her latest article on the Mass Parole Board's problematic treatment of a dying prisoner www.youtube.com/live/K1sbeq9... #journalism #livestream

BINJ Live #2 with featured guest Eliza Dewey and hosts Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 23d

New Coverage of Opioid Settlements In Mass ...

This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since ...

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · 26d

Editorial: Censoring Jimmy Kimmel Is Not The Biggest Threat To The First Amendment. The ongoing collapse of the free press is … and news outlets like BINJ need your help. The latest from @jasonpramas.bsky.social . horizonmass.news/2025/09/18/e... #censorship #JimmyKimmel #1stAmendment #journalism

Editorial: Censoring Jimmy Kimmel Is Not The Biggest Threat To The First Amendment

The ongoing collapse of the free press is … and news outlets like BINJ need your help

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 26d

thanks for republishing Eliza’s excellent piece!

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 28d

TONIGHT at 8 p.m. ET! BINJ Live with Chris Faraone & Jason Pramas. Our very first guest is Jacob Schles, BINJ reporter and Emerson College student! We'll be hearing Jacob's thoughts on the challenges young journalists face. On YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/vnJhe2r... #journalism #livestream

BINJ Live with Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas (guest: Jacob Schles)

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Sep 12

Why This Political Moment Is Particularly Dangerous For The American Left: A point by philosopher Hannah Arendt makes it plain that de-escalation should be our watchword at present. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/09/11/w... #politics #analysis #column

Why This Political Moment Is Particularly Dangerous For The American Left

A point by philosopher Hannah Arendt makes it plain that deescalation should be our watchword at present

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · Sep 11

NEW: Did The BPD Fly A Surveillance Drone Over The Dominican Parade?

They Won’t Tell Us.

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Sep 5

Editorial: Elite Propaganda Operations Are Trying To Buy Off The Independent Press. But BINJ’s #journalism is not for sale … ever. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/09/04/e... #chorus

Editorial: Elite Propaganda Operations Are Trying To Buy Off The Independent Press

But BINJ’s journalism is not for sale … ever

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 29

Labor Day Should Remind Bostonians Why #Trump Is Threatening To Send In The Troops: And what we can do about it. The latest from @jasonpramas. horizonmass.news/2025/08/28/l... #politics #democracy #protest #analysis #Boston #LaborDay

Labor Day Should Remind Bostonians Why Trump Is Threatening To Send In The Troops

And what we can do about it

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · Aug 27

Meet One Of The Young Advocates Advancing #Psychedelics In #Massachusetts ...

With one milestone already behind him, Tim Morris says that securing “at-home cultivation” of plant medicine like #psilocybin will be “the real milestone.”

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · Aug 26

Amid City And State Failures And Federal Cuts, Advocates For Unhoused Step Up Efforts ...

Catching up with Warm Up #Boston about tent sweeps, shelter limits, drug dangers, and the criminalization of people living on streets

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#homelessness #housing

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HorizonMass @horizonmass.bsky.social · Aug 22

Why Left Unions, Nonprofits, And Foundations Don’t Fund Left #Journalism: And why they need to stop dumping millions on PR firms and start funding left news organizations before we all collapse. #Editorial by @jasonpramas.bsky.social horizonmass.news/2025/08/21/e... #politics #nonprofit #fundraising

Editorial: Why Left Unions, Nonprofits, And Foundations Don’t Fund Left Journalism

And why they need to stop dumping millions on PR firms and start funding left news organizations before we all collapse

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · Aug 15

yes, we’re still trying to figure out “what works” 🤣

Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · Aug 15

A new name is coming for HorizonMass that will reflect its affiliation with @binjreports.bsky.social, writes co-founder @jasonpramas.bsky.social. We interviewed Jason on the @whatworks-nu.bsky.social podcast when HorizonMass launched in 2023. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 67 | Jason Pramas

Podcast Episode · What Works: The Future of Local News · 10/12/2023 · 1h 25m

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