Tom Joad™️
@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social
His debut collection, Nine Miles, is a #1 Amazon Bestseller in New Releases in Anthologies. He's currently at work on a novel. "Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there". https://substack.com/@tomjoad3
A letter landed on my neighbor's kitchen table. State seal, no explanation, 80 hours a month or she loses her Medicaid. Nebraska was first in the country to try this. Here's the letter, the senators who voted for it, and the woman it almost cost a surgery. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
The First State To Try It
On Nebraska becoming the first state to impose Medicaid work requirements, and what being first actually costs the people living inside it
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Great Starter Pack!!
Jesse : 💙💙💙@journeyled1.bsky.social · 3d agogo.bsky.app/CUw9nhL When we protest 47 wants to enact the insurrection act. Courts have taken that ability away. The courts are keeping things less dangerous in the dying hands of 47. He still tries having his DOJ make up nonsense as it is law. Keep protesting, fight for your rights and vote.
A man drove past a ruined cornfield with me last week. Didn't say a word. Just looked, shook his head once, kept driving. That was the whole conversation. It was enough. New piece is up…on noticing versus actually showing up for someone. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
A Quiet Conversation
What it costs to actually stay in the room
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Thank you, Tom!💙🌊🙏👊💪🌺✊☮️🐺 Don't just have a great day, make it one! Caffeinate, hydrate, and never hesitate to share a smile. We're building hope, joy, and community out here, and the fascists don't get any of it. We've got this, and we get to make new friends along the way.😊 #StrongerTogether
Everyone make sure to check out @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social's substack! Always a good read. joadt.substack.com
Tom Joad - Scottsbluff | Substack
Essays from a porch in Scottsbluff, Nebraska - about people, mortality, politics, and the gap between what America promised and what it delivered. Click to read Tom Joad - Scottsbluff, a Substack publ...
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Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep@crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social · last wk.Thank you, Tom!💙🌊🙏👊💪🌺✊☮️🐺 Don't just have a great day, make it one! Caffeinate, hydrate, and never hesitate to share a smile. We're building hope, joy, and community out here, and the fascists don't get any of it. We've got this, and we get to make new friends along the way.😊 #StrongerTogether
Tom Joad™️@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · last wk.A journalist laughs with a White House aide at a black-tie dinner. Four seconds of footage. Meanwhile a reporter nobody invited is sitting in a cold car outside a courthouse at 6am, filing a story that pays nothing. That's the whole job. New piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
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Tom Joad™️@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · last wk.A journalist laughs with a White House aide at a black-tie dinner. Four seconds of footage. Meanwhile a reporter nobody invited is sitting in a cold car outside a courthouse at 6am, filing a story that pays nothing. That's the whole job. New piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
Great Starter Pack!!
Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep@crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social · last wk.Stepping out of our comfort zones was never the plan. But the Republic won't defend itself; we need to do it. Hope isn't naive; it's a muscle; we're flexing it together! Nobody fights alone! #StrongerTogether #DOOR #ProudBlue #DV1 #Blues #MindYourWile Smile😁 Laugh😂 Love❤️ Live🤪 go.bsky.app/61k7MCp
A journalist laughs with a White House aide at a black-tie dinner. Four seconds of footage. Meanwhile a reporter nobody invited is sitting in a cold car outside a courthouse at 6am, filing a story that pays nothing. That's the whole job. New piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
The Laughing Room
On a laugh, a barn dog, and who the press really works for
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"Collapse isn’t the failure mode here. Collapse might be the business plan."
Tom Joad™️@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · 2w ago90miles isn't very far on a map. It's the distance between freedom and hunger. Between medicine and none. Between a government trying to survive and another trying to make sure it doesn't. This isn't really about Cuba. It's about what power does to ordinary people. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
It's a difference between communism and democracy
Tom Joad™️@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · 2w ago90miles isn't very far on a map. It's the distance between freedom and hunger. Between medicine and none. Between a government trying to survive and another trying to make sure it doesn't. This isn't really about Cuba. It's about what power does to ordinary people. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
This👇. Good list.
Tom Joad™️@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · 2y ago5 books every #Resistance member should read. 1.1984 Geo.Orwell 2.The Femine Mystigue.Betty Friedan. 3.A Peoples History of the Uninted States. Howard Zinn 4.The New Jim Crow.Michelle Alexander. 5.The Grapes of Wrath.John Steinbeck. Please add your own.
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Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Tom_J... ….. Wherever little children are hungry and cry, Wherever people ain't free. Wherever men are fightin' for their rights, That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma. That's where I'm a-gonna be.
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90miles isn't very far on a map. It's the distance between freedom and hunger. Between medicine and none. Between a government trying to survive and another trying to make sure it doesn't. This isn't really about Cuba. It's about what power does to ordinary people. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
Ninety Miles
What a hollowed-out country looks like from the beach where somebody's already planning the resort.
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The over/under on Trump falling asleep during the World Cup Final is 17.5 minutes. The smart money is on halftime, right after he discovers his diaper is full.
Amazing Tom. Keep writing. We'll gladly keep reading.
Oh, and the one where Patricia rises to speak up in the town hall. I've probably forgotten half of the stories that you've already written to this subject. All riveting.
Yes, the timing AND your ability to frame the issues into relatable, heart centered stories. I'm thinking of the daughter crossing the state lines RoevWade reality , the sewing factory that burned, the shelter that lost funding (to name just a few).
Congrats!!!! I'm so excited for you, Tom! Keep publishing. Maybe book two on women's issues? I know you have plenty of material. A reminder before midterms. We need it! Well, "they" need it. And they'll find it on Amazon!
Nine Miles just hit #1 in New Releases in Anthologies. Didn't write it chasing a number. Wrote it for people like Luiz, and the ones this country doesn't stop for. Thank you to everyone who read it, shared it, and told somebody else to. I'll keep writing them if you keep reading them.
"A man shouldn’t have to build resilience into his pricing because the richest companies in the history of the world decided his steel could wait."
Tom Joad™️@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · 3w agoTwenty thousand tons for one AI data center. Thirty tons a week for a small welding shop. Guess who waits at the back of the line. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
I will remember to do that. I am only 30 pages in so its going to be awhile before I give a review. I haven’t cried reading a book since I read Jack London in 5th grade. I’ve choked up and cried 4 times in 30 pages. You cut to the heart.
