Chris Faraone
@Fara1
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Editor: @TalkingJoints | Co-Founder & Editorial Director: @BINJreports
Boston, MA
Joined February 2009
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 ...
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:
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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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Are the prohibitionists who are trying to end adult-use #cannabis in #Massachusetts playing fair? What do you think? #mapoli
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New @BINJreports feature by Eliza Dewey ... Boston Police Deployed 71 Drone Flights Over Caribbean Carnival And that's not all ... https://t.co/1R1uUkx2os
#Boston #BPD #drones #surveillancestate #mapoli
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NEW from BINJ: While Researching The Salem Witch Trials, He Learned His Relative Was Among The Accused https://t.co/NK1yADudBR
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Major WOW kind of news tonight in the inexorably intertwined worlds of #Massachusetts #politics and #cannabisculture ... https://t.co/i87SavwEto
#mapoli
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Massachusetts Appeals Court rules "the defendant [Treasurer Deb Goldberg] has not demonstrated, as she must, a likelihood of success on appeal."
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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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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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https://t.co/iaPd2gyYKE
@Fara1 The Shakedown Sheriff: How Steven Tompkins Nickel And Dimed His Way To Indictment #mapoli
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Everything we know so far about the cannabis industry relationship that led to the arrest of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts sheriff for alleged extortion
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Imagine any other entity doing the shit they have done and getting this treatment ... https://t.co/z6BFSPt1Kt
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Can the police police themselves? The first outsider to lead the Massachusetts State Police is promising reform.
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Mike Beaudet is drinking his own pee again ...
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Channel 5 Boston stunt reporter turns attention towards potent devil's lettuce
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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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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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I'm sure the separation can be painful at some times, but if your dad chose Donald Trump over you, your family, his children, and his grandchildren, then I promise you are better off without that asshole on this #FathersDay anyway.
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No acknowledgment of many number of colleagues who lost their jobs yesterday so these two $300k+ 15-hour week hacks could keep theirs. Disrespectful, disgusting and dishonest.
Hey @bostonradio... I hope someone is monitoring things over there @BosPublicRadio, where they likely had their belts and shoelaces removed as they entered the studio today. Someone needs to take one for the team and listen to the Karen Radio for the rest of us.
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BINJ PROGRAMS AT THE CAMBRIDGE KIOSK Join us for these free community events addressing news and journalism, then and now, in Cambridge and beyond ... https://t.co/Xqf2HyXQhA
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Join us in Harvard Square tomorrow morning!
CAMBRIDGE KIOSK WITH BINJ INSTALLATION OPENS FRIDAY We are thrilled to play a part in the upcoming opening month of programming for the #Cambridge KiOSK unfolding in the former storied Out of Town News kiosk in #HarvardSquare. https://t.co/8TGRl6eu62
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I will have my revenge on paywall publications by crowdfunding AI tech to post every story every one of them publishes on free sites. Can't believe this hasn't happened yet but I'm determined. Starting with the Globe, naturally.
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First mayoral forum on the books Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?" Mayor Wu: Ward 18 Domingos DaRosa: 18 Josh Kraft: “I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know” Alex Alex also didn't know Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3
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