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The Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass. Photo courtesy of The Satanic Temple.
JACOB DOWNEY

The Satanic Temple Suing Boston Over Alleged Viewpoint Discrimination At City Hall Flagpole

Interview with TST’s Lucien Greaves

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JACOB DOWNEY September 4, 2025
Democracy activists protest the arrest of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk by ICE at a protest in Somerville's Nathan Tufts Park, March 26, 2025. Photo by Gabriel Martins. Copyright 2025 Gabriel Martins.
GABRIEL MARTINS

Challenging Fear And Trepidation, Democracy Activists Rally In Somerville Following Student ICE Arrest

“Justice is something that people ignore until it happens in the neighborhood. … No one thought this would happen in a school in Massachusetts.”

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GABRIEL MARTINS March 27, 2025
DANA FORSYTHE

Massachusetts Cops Are Increasingly Monitoring Drones, But At What Cost?

As police and civilian drone usage climbs despite a lack of clear guidelines and changing rules, authorities, advocates, and amateurs struggle to keep a close watch on each other Although drones are seemingly suddenly everywhere these days, they have been floating above us for more than a century, and actually

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DANA FORSYTHE March 26, 2025
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MADISON LUCCHESI

Emerson Students, Staff, And Faculty Face Restrictive New Policies Born From Gaza Protests

The Emerson College administration put rules in place in response to last year’s campus unrest that some community members say violate their First Amendment rights

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MADISON LUCCHESI January 23, 2025
CHRIS FARAONE AND SAM STECKLOW

Half The Story: A Deep Dive On What’s Come Of Police Reform In Massachusetts

Massachusetts passed historic police certification reform. But even with the POST Commission, the public can’t see which cops have been part of the “officer shuffle.”

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CHRIS FARAONE AND SAM STECKLOW September 18, 2024
DAN ATKINSON

FEATURE FOLLOW-UP: SURREPTITIOUS SIMULATION

Massachusetts State Police purchased cell-phone surveillance tech that civil liberties watchdogs say invites concerning violations of constitutional protections. Is it too late for privacy advocates and lawmakers to put accountability measures in place?

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DAN ATKINSON April 3, 2024
DAN ATKINSON

STINGRAYS, SIMULATORS, SURVEILLANCE, AND SILVERADOS

How Massachusetts State Police are using the opioid crisis to pursue “profound and dangerous erosions of privacy and civil liberties”

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DAN ATKINSON February 6, 2024
CHRIS FARAONE

BINJ IMPACT ON THE SURVEILLANCE FRONT IN BOSTON

We have continued to cover these issues with our publishing partners, most recently via Dan Atkinson and his excellent work for DigBoston.

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CHRIS FARAONE June 8, 2021

THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING

Photo by Kori Feener Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right August 22, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk in most of the news media, Saturday’s 40,000-strong Boston protests against extremism — and the tiny ultra-right rally that

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JASON PRAMAS August 22, 2017
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