Tom’s Substack:The Voice of the Resistance.

Tom’s Substack:The Voice of the Resistance.

The City That Resists

How Ordinary People Fight the Machine in the Background of Everyday Life

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Tom Joad
May 10, 2025
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This isn’t a war in the way most people think of war. There are no uniforms. No battle lines. No grand declarations. Just people,ordinary people living their lives while quietly, stubbornly making sure the machine doesn’t work quite the way it’s supposed to.

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