{"id":9491,"date":"2025-09-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:37:36","slug":"pirate-news-bpd-drones-over-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/pirate-news-bpd-drones-over-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: BPD Drones Over Boston?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve, Joe and James discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/horizonmass.news\/\">HorizonMass<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/binj.news\/\">BINJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/horizonmass.news\/2025\/09\/10\/did-the-bpd-fly-a-surveillance-drone-over-the-dominican-parade-they-wont-tell-us\/\">effort to use public records requests to determine if the drones over the Boston Dominican Parade and Caribbean Carnival were owned by the Boston Police Department<\/a>. We also discussed the Trump administration&#8217;s recent efforts to censor free speech and an ex-Florida sheriff&#8217;s deputy attempt to spread disinformation from Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHy8jXfhQVw?si=mvPH9m61EDwHwGEm\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Mastodon<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/masspirates\">Facebook<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/masspirates.bsky.social\">Blue Sky<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some links we mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/2025_Administrative_Coup_Memory_Bank\">Our Administrative Coup Memory Bank<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/Things_to_Do_When_Fascists_are_Taking_Over\">Our Things to Do when Fascists are Taking Over<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/horizonmass.news\/2025\/09\/10\/did-the-bpd-fly-a-surveillance-drone-over-the-dominican-parade-they-wont-tell-us\/\">Did The BPD Fly A Surveillance Drone Over The Dominican Parade? They Won\u2019t Tell Us.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-jimmy-kimmel-axe-2132535\">Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_legislators\">2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/09\/18\/russian_fakenews_network\/\">Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff&#8217;s deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC-By-2.0<\/a> image via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:HX3_Flying_Eyes_drone_(15207566372).jpg\">Wikipedia Commons<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/30364433@N05\">Maurizio Pesce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, Joe and James discuss HorizonMass\/BINJ effort to use public records requests to determine if the drones over the Boston Dominican Parade and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,32,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-justice","category-slider","category-podcasts","category-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Drone.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2t5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9495,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/9495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}