Adam Goldfarb
@adamgoldfarb.bsky.social
he/him
Apprentice economic sociologist @ NC State
charisma, crime, culture, networks, masculinity, organizations, theory
comparative historical and computational methods
adamjgoldfarb.github.io
Apprentice economic sociologist @ NC State
charisma, crime, culture, networks, masculinity, organizations, theory
comparative historical and computational methods
adamjgoldfarb.github.io
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Adam Goldfarb
@adamgoldfarb.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Bio: I'm a fledgling sociologist in poli and econ soc. I use historical and mixed methods. I teach methods, so I'm always looking to up my game. I also do a lot of stuff related to charisma and corruption. I come from philosophy and linguistics, but am mostly converted! I hope you enjoy my work!
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looking forward to ever more morbid symptoms.
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
looking forward to ever more morbid symptoms.
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Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
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they’re going to make everything gay (optimistic)
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
they’re going to make everything gay (optimistic)
Looking up how antimatter works in case I need to create an appropriate metaphor with the concept, even though I am most definitely not a positivist. Social physics? GTFO.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Looking up how antimatter works in case I need to create an appropriate metaphor with the concept, even though I am most definitely not a positivist. Social physics? GTFO.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Nothing in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the drone campaign was like this, directly killing such unambiguously nonthreatening people on direct orders from the very top, who openly celebrated it after.
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Nothing in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the drone campaign was like this, directly killing such unambiguously nonthreatening people on direct orders from the very top, who openly celebrated it after.
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“Grandpa, where were all the people in Congress who swore oaths on Bibles to preserve, protect, & defend the Constitution? Did they not mean it?”
Folks not very long from now are going to see these posts in their histories of the 2020s and will shout, "what the fuck was wrong these people?"
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
“Grandpa, where were all the people in Congress who swore oaths on Bibles to preserve, protect, & defend the Constitution? Did they not mean it?”
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Folks not very long from now are going to see these posts in their histories of the 2020s and will shout, "what the fuck was wrong these people?"
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Folks not very long from now are going to see these posts in their histories of the 2020s and will shout, "what the fuck was wrong these people?"
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Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the baseline "moderate" position in the face of this authoritarian nonsense.
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
If/when Democrats regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until you stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25 of you, with 9 chosen by lottery for any one case.
Again, because the 9 Wizards In Robes, of both parties, believe they & SCOTUS are entitled by God to be an all-powerful Super-legislature, adding seats (& slashing the clerks/building budget, & making them ride the circuit, etc.) has now become the only serious “moderate” & “pro-democracy” position.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the baseline "moderate" position in the face of this authoritarian nonsense.
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
"The opposition between Marxist theory, in the strictly objectivist form it often assumes, and Weberian theory which distinguishes between social class and status group (Stand),
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"The opposition between Marxist theory, in the strictly objectivist form it often assumes, and Weberian theory which distinguishes between social class and status group (Stand),
"To be noble is to squander; it is an obligation to appear; it is to be sentenced, on pain of degradation, to luxury and to spending. I would even say that this tendency to prodigality
asserted itself at the beginning of the thirteenth century as a reaction to the social ascent of the newly rich.
asserted itself at the beginning of the thirteenth century as a reaction to the social ascent of the newly rich.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"To be noble is to squander; it is an obligation to appear; it is to be sentenced, on pain of degradation, to luxury and to spending. I would even say that this tendency to prodigality
asserted itself at the beginning of the thirteenth century as a reaction to the social ascent of the newly rich.
asserted itself at the beginning of the thirteenth century as a reaction to the social ascent of the newly rich.
To Bourdieu, or to Bourdon't, that is the question...
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
To Bourdieu, or to Bourdon't, that is the question...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
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Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
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This broke my heart
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This broke my heart
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Sign up below to hear @juliango.bsky.social giving the next Racial Justice lecture on January 21st, 2026. Prof. Go will be asking 'How and why have the police in liberal democracies become militarized?'. The answer, he will argue, is to be found in imperialism past and present.
Racial Justice Lecture: Policing Race
Professor Julian Go delivers the second University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Sign up below to hear @juliango.bsky.social giving the next Racial Justice lecture on January 21st, 2026. Prof. Go will be asking 'How and why have the police in liberal democracies become militarized?'. The answer, he will argue, is to be found in imperialism past and present.
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This is why teaching the history of science is as important as teaching science.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is why teaching the history of science is as important as teaching science.