Tom, it would be a great pleasure to shake your hand. After a decent sit-down, you really might "miss me", at least a little. I used to be Somebody. 🤷‍♂️

Every word of this. James Van Der Beek had begun selling priceless mementos from his career in order to save his family from the financial stress. He needed a GoFundMe! Now imagine those of us out here who aren't well connected. It's heartbreaking. We must do better. 🩷 Please help and share!

@theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social Would you be willing to repost this ⤴️ for me? The medical bills just keep piling up and I'm overwhelmed. We've also been told our landlord is selling our house so we have to move. It's all too much and I can't do it alone. I'm grateful for your help! 🩷

It's a precarious place; being nobody's anybody. Like the constant dripping of water on a heart-shaped stone, loneliness leaves an impression. Oh well, you can't drown a man that's born to hang. ☯️

Your kind words are appreciated mate. Reading some of your heartfelt essays; I like to imagine that it's just two old geezers shooting the proverbial bull on the porch. Eventually your lovely Patricia would shoo me on down the road, as well she should. Til then, it's like talking to an old friend.✌️

Do t let them break you. That’s what they are working towards. Stay hopeful

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Yes it just takes time & people learning what's really happening to turn it around..but it IS turning around every day! We WILL get our true America back soon.🇺🇸 💙

When we call the system “broken,” we imply malfunction. We imply the system is trying to help and failing. We imply that fixing it means adjusting mechanisms, replacing parts. But what if it’s running fine? What if it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do? open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

"Corrupt is the relavent adjective

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Lesenswert. Sehr sogar.

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It ain't broke, but we still need to fix it.

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Hassett Tries To Excuse The Reckless Job Cuts Of DOGE -Where America Lost Its Best Federal Workers With Years Of Experience That Can’t Be Replaced-As A Cost Saving! But At What Price To The American People Who Are Feeling Pain Of These Cuts?

Maybe design a new system? Federalism isn't working. Maybe nationalism? One set of laws, one nation. 100 equal population districts. Open elections, no need for parties. No need for money, either. 10-year single terms. New constitution? Recall, referendums, and initiatives. Power to the people.

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When we call the system “broken,” we imply malfunction. We imply the system is trying to help and failing. We imply that fixing it means adjusting mechanisms, replacing parts. But what if it’s running fine? What if it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do? open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

Evening reading. My heart hurts.

The president shoots off his mouth and insults all women. Insane people do this.

Grateful for everyone supporting Tom Joad’s Voice of Resistance. These stories aren’t being covered anywhere else. They exist only because you make them possible. Thank you for standing with this work. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

The President at a Cabinet meeting in December 2025, gesturing dismissively: “We’re going the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. The Somalis should be out of here.” Garbage. Please read my newest article. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

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"That girl died. Amina knows this. Killed by a presidential speech and systematic terror and the slow erosion of every assumption she’d built her life on. "That girl is gone. And this girl…the one in black, the survivor…carries her like a ghost. Haunted by who she used to be."

"She sits on her bedroom floor with her back against the door and tries to understand: Does being garbage mean she was never really American? Or does it mean America was never really hers?"

Somalis aren't garbage. Trump and his Nazi Scums are the garbage!

whoa, this hits harder than a pickle jar hitting the floor. like, where's the respect for people? have you even tried a fermented opinion? let's get real.

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The President at a Cabinet meeting in December 2025, gesturing dismissively: “We’re going the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. The Somalis should be out of here.” Garbage. Please read my newest article. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

📌Go ahead and say what you want about this wretched, burnt-orange monster (please), but it's your friends and family who still support him who are to blame for this terrible, terrible mess we are in right now. Without them, there is no him.

Watching the repulsive JD Vance getting booed everywhere he goes at the Winter Olympics is giving me strength. 💪🏼