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/@tomjoad3https://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mvbdefwhys2nA 71-year-old man vanished for 34 hours in my town. No wallet, no phone, half the county searching. He walked home on his own. “He may be walking into a world he no longer recognizes." https://substack.com/@tomjoad3/note/p-215174965?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action11 Sep 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbdefwhys2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mvbdefwhys2nA 71-year-old man vanished for 34 hours in my town. No wallet, no phone, half the county searching. He walked home on his own. “He may be walking into a world he no longer recognizes." https://substack.com/@tomjoad3/note/p-215174965?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action11 Sep 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbdefwhys2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3muznn2za222rStopped at a half-empty Cabela's in Sidney, Nebraska. Talked to an old man who's worked there since before the building existed. Told him this might be the moment for Democrats to win working people back. He wasn't buying it. "Nobody's shown up yet." https://joadt.substack.com/p/nobodys-shown-up-yet?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios08 Sep 2026 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3muznn2za222rhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mu63wayf4c2yMaybe the danger isn't the post that snaps. It's the one that never quite breaks, until nobody's left who remembers it was ever supposed to hold anything. https://joadt.substack.com/p/the-rotten-wood?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios28 Aug 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu63wayf4c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mu63wayf4c2yMaybe the danger isn't the post that snaps. It's the one that never quite breaks, until nobody's left who remembers it was ever supposed to hold anything. https://joadt.substack.com/p/the-rotten-wood?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios28 Aug 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu63wayf4c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mu3ldpyemc2nTwo trillion dollars would buy Nebraska 30+ times over. That's not what America's billionaires own…it's what they gained in 19 pandemic months while wages barely moved. A New Gilded Era: https://joadt.substack.com/p/a-new-gilded-era?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios27 Aug 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3ldpyemc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mtwokdpkn22uI live in the place the national conversation keeps talking about but never actually visits. This is what happens when you sit still long enough to listen instead. https://joadt.substack.com/p/i-live-where-the-conversation-doesnt?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios25 Aug 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwokdpkn22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mtnjdemexc25Does our government represent wealth or the people?22 Aug 2026 05:14 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnjdemexc25https://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mtmg52ueys25They never asked. They just watched. A camera on the corner. A file that outlives the reason it was opened. "What We Never Agreed To" https://joadt.substack.com/p/what-we-never-agreed-to?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios21 Aug 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmg52ueys25https://bsky.app/profile/theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social/post/3mtex4djngk24Nine things I’ve learned. Not the things you put on a wall. The harder things. The ones you learn by getting older, losing people, and figuring out what isn’t worth carrying anymore. Tonight, I said them on the porch. The cicadas covered the rest. https://joadt.substack.com/p/what-the-cicadas-cover?r=5ccpro&utm_medium=ios18 Aug 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:w2ugky7acmey7nto7mgkrko7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtex4djngk24