Heath Brown
@heathbrown.bsky.social
CUNY John Jay & Grad Center—author of Roadblocked: Joe Biden’s Rocky Transition to the Presidency due out in 2024 https://a.co/d/en5ESkV Co-edit 3Streams blog: https://medium.com/3streams
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An astonishing factoid from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, looking at data over the last decade: "the workforce of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States."
If you are appalled at the tactics of ICE and CBP, you should be! They in fact are *NOT* trained for the work they're doing in America's interior right now—and they're scared of interacting with US citizens. That's a recipe for the exact disaster we see: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 20, 2026 at 11:50 PM
An astonishing factoid from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, looking at data over the last decade: "the workforce of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States."
Winding path for Teenage Wasteland to become a college football anthem
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Winding path for Teenage Wasteland to become a college football anthem
Essence of NJ politics
““I’d order a piece of lemon meringue pie and pick at it while I listened. You can’t believe the connections and friendships I forged over lemon meringue pie.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/n...
““I’d order a piece of lemon meringue pie and pick at it while I listened. You can’t believe the connections and friendships I forged over lemon meringue pie.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/n...
Richard Codey, a New Jersey Acting Governor Many Times Over, Dies at 79
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Essence of NJ politics
““I’d order a piece of lemon meringue pie and pick at it while I listened. You can’t believe the connections and friendships I forged over lemon meringue pie.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/n...
““I’d order a piece of lemon meringue pie and pick at it while I listened. You can’t believe the connections and friendships I forged over lemon meringue pie.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/n...
What could go wrong
January 7, 2026 at 1:43 PM
What could go wrong
Discovering a wild new part of the story about plane crash that destroyed much of @mrpeterframpton.bsky.social musical equipment in 1980
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Discovering a wild new part of the story about plane crash that destroyed much of @mrpeterframpton.bsky.social musical equipment in 1980
The best parenthetical of 2026
“(including academics essentially acting as pundits)” from @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
“(including academics essentially acting as pundits)” from @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
Candidates, Cleverness, and Polls
Covering some of what's going on.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The best parenthetical of 2026
“(including academics essentially acting as pundits)” from @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
“(including academics essentially acting as pundits)” from @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
Good time to re-listen to this podcast episode with @michaeltheaney.bsky.social about his book with Fabio Rojas megaphone.link/LIT2279791984
Michael Heaney and Fabio Rojas, “Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11” (Cambridge UP, 2014) by New Books Network
Michael Heaney and Fabio Rojas are the authors of Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press 2015). Heaney is assistant professor organiz...
megaphone.link
January 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Good time to re-listen to this podcast episode with @michaeltheaney.bsky.social about his book with Fabio Rojas megaphone.link/LIT2279791984
Sharing our first @3streamsblog.bsky.social post of the new year, Amy Elizabeth Stambach from a new article in Administrative Theory & Praxis medium.com/3streams/elo...
Checking in on Elon Musk’s Chainsaw Massacre at the One Year Mark
When government gets the start-up treatment, disruption displaces democracy.
medium.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Sharing our first @3streamsblog.bsky.social post of the new year, Amy Elizabeth Stambach from a new article in Administrative Theory & Praxis medium.com/3streams/elo...
2026 blogging from @orangefire.bsky.social about Imai is a dream come true
January 1, 2026 at 10:34 PM
2026 blogging from @orangefire.bsky.social about Imai is a dream come true
Diana Ross looks and sounds amazing
January 1, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Diana Ross looks and sounds amazing
Number 1 for @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 has been the MSIRA partnership with @dadakim.bsky.social Marissa Brookes and Jennifer Merolla and their team of excellent research assistants cc @cmwitko.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @billresh.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/str...
Streamlining with strings attached?
Recent research shows allies of major powers often come out ahead when the World Bank reforms.
medium.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Number 1 for @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 has been the MSIRA partnership with @dadakim.bsky.social Marissa Brookes and Jennifer Merolla and their team of excellent research assistants cc @cmwitko.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @billresh.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/str...
Way back in March @peterenns.bsky.social wrote this one in the future of election polling for @3streamsblog.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/the...
The Future of Election Polls
How to increase accuracy and lower costs with online nonprobability surveys
medium.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Way back in March @peterenns.bsky.social wrote this one in the future of election polling for @3streamsblog.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/the...
Another big 2025 @3streamsblog.bsky.social story was @billresh.bsky.social from this summer on federal staffing medium.com/3streams/how...
How Will DRPs Impact Agencies? The Answer at USDA Might Frighten You
The staffing figures in the following analysis derive from an anonymous yet credible source in the United States Department of Agriculture…
medium.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Another big 2025 @3streamsblog.bsky.social story was @billresh.bsky.social from this summer on federal staffing medium.com/3streams/how...
Possibly the biggest @3streamsblog.bsky.social was from @camsilver.bsky.social about teaching about Charlie Kirk medium.com/3streams/tea...
Teaching Charlie Kirk to My Students
Satire on August 27, Death on September 10
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December 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Possibly the biggest @3streamsblog.bsky.social was from @camsilver.bsky.social about teaching about Charlie Kirk medium.com/3streams/tea...
So many big stories @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 cc @billresh.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @cmwitko.bsky.social: one of the biggest was @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social on historical precedents for Mayor Mamdani medium.com/3streams/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani and the Other “Boy Mayor”
What today’s mayor-elect can learn from the ghosts of New York City government
medium.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So many big stories @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 cc @billresh.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @cmwitko.bsky.social: one of the biggest was @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social on historical precedents for Mayor Mamdani medium.com/3streams/zoh...
One of the worst framing techniques:
“Journalists and scholars paid little attention to this movement until recently”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...
“Journalists and scholars paid little attention to this movement until recently”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...
Opinion | What We Get Wrong About Christian Nationalism
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
One of the worst framing techniques:
“Journalists and scholars paid little attention to this movement until recently”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...
“Journalists and scholars paid little attention to this movement until recently”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...
Copy edit team’s off for the holidays
“It is of no moment that the they may eventually get a green card or become naturalized.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
“It is of no moment that the they may eventually get a green card or become naturalized.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
A Conspicuous Gap May Undermine Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Plan
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Copy edit team’s off for the holidays
“It is of no moment that the they may eventually get a green card or become naturalized.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
“It is of no moment that the they may eventually get a green card or become naturalized.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Reposted by Heath Brown
Links day - I'm reading outstanding items from @jamellebouie.net @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jrakove.bsky.social - and @normornstein.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social @nataliej.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social etc. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/a-trump-pu...
A Trump Puzzle
And lots and lots of links
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Links day - I'm reading outstanding items from @jamellebouie.net @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jrakove.bsky.social - and @normornstein.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social @nataliej.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social etc. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/a-trump-pu...
How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Sharing this great post @3streamsblog.bsky.social from @kevintmorris.bsky.social and Miller from their new @thejop.bsky.social article medium.com/3streams/how...
How the Supreme Court Exploded the Racial Turnout Gap
Evidence shows hundreds of thousands of ballots nationwide were never cast due to new policies and practices
medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sharing this great post @3streamsblog.bsky.social from @kevintmorris.bsky.social and Miller from their new @thejop.bsky.social article medium.com/3streams/how...
New York has won two championships since Mamdani was elected
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
New York has won two championships since Mamdani was elected
The championship @salilb.bsky.social predicted
a basketball player wearing a new york 32 jersey stands in front of a crowd
ALT: a basketball player wearing a new york 32 jersey stands in front of a crowd
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The championship @salilb.bsky.social predicted
Best book covers of 2025
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medium.com/3streams/bes...
Best Book Covers of 2025
In a year of many great political science books, these covers were the best
medium.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Best book covers of 2025
medium.com/3streams/bes...
medium.com/3streams/bes...
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Use of the word "derangement" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Use of the word "derangement" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party