https://animaloutlook.org/celebrating-life-tommy-raskin/
''Celebrating the Life of Tommy Raskin: An Outspoken Advocate For Justice And Compassion For All''
animaloutlook.org/celebrating-life-tommy-raskin
January 5, 2021
As Tommy’s parents
— U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin
— beautifully expressed, he led a “remarkable life.” In a word, he was “magic.”
What struck so many people upon meeting Tommy, hearing him speak, or reading his essays: He radiated magnetic energy of wisdom beyond his years and compassion rooted deeply in his soul. He was a dynamic force for good in this world, driven to expose, challenge and uproot all forms of injustice, including the suffering forced upon animals.
“When it comes to the right to live free from the blight
of aggression, oppression, from tyrannous might,
how smart you are friends shouldn’t matter at all;
trauma is still trauma for the creatures that crawl.”
excerpt from Where War Begins by Tommy Raskin
Soon after Congressman Raskin inspired the idea behind
— and became the first participant in
— Animal Outlook’s VegWeek campaign in 2009, Tommy also began aligning his morals with his menu. He was a passionate vegan, and in 2017, Animal Outlook was honored to feature Tommy as a speaker at our DC VegFest (video below) as well as at our holiday celebration (video), leaving audiences in awe after sharing his powerful and poignant poem, Where War Begins.
https://youtu.be/eaetHwyVS6o
Tommy’s authenticity, wit, and unflinching determination empowered those who knew him and created a ripple effect, inspiring countless others he never met. Though his extraordinary life was tragically brief
— cut short by the darkness of depression
— his love, laughter, and light are woven into the hearts and memories of all the people and animals whose lives he touched.
''Tommy Raskin’s Legacy Lives On ''
The Bloom Raskin family launched the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals, a fund that will “distribute money on a semiannual basis to causes and charities championed and advanced by Tommy Raskin, such as Oxfam, Give Directly, the Helen Keller Institute, and Animal Outlook.” Donations can be made to this fund, which is operated through the Greater Washington Community Foundation.
Additionally, the strong and supportive community in which Tommy grew up is encouraging others to consider engaging in at least one small act of compassion in Tommy’s memory. If you’re willing, please add your action to this growing list of Acts of Goodness in Honor of Tommy Raskin, and you can also add to the comments below to help inspire others.
Tommy will be deeply missed, and our hearts go out to the entire Bloom Raskin family and to all those who knew and loved him.
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''Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy Raskin''
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January 4, 2021
Rep. Jamie Raskin
Jan 4, 2021
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9 min read
TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin:
“On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was born to ecstatic parents who saw him enter the world like a blue-eyed cherub, a little angel. Tommy grew up as a strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm, making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with his little sister in his father’s constitutional law class, teaching other children the names of all the Justices on the Supreme Court, hugging strangers on the street, teaching our dogs foreign languages, running up and down the aisle on airplanes giving people high fives, playing jazz piano like a blues great from Bourbon Street, and at 12 writing a detailed brief to his mother explaining why he should not have to do a Bar Mitzvah and citing Due Process liberty interests (appeal rejected).
“Over the years he was enveloped in the love not only of his bedazzled and starstruck parents but of his remarkable and adoring sisters, Hannah the older and Tabitha the younger, a huge pack of cousins, including Jedd, Emily, Maggie, Zacky, Mariah, Phoebe and Lily, Boman and Daisy, and Emmet and spoiled rotten with hugs and kisses and philosophical nourishment from his grandparents Herb and Arlene Bloom, Marcus Raskin, Barbara Raskin, and later Lynn Raskin, the best aunts and uncles a mischievous ragamuffin could ask for, including Erika and Keith, Kenneth and Abby, Mina, Noah and Heather, Eden and Brandon, and Tammy and Gary, and a cast of secondary parents who wrapped him in adoration and wildly precocious conversation like Michael and Donene, Ann and Jimmy, Kate and Hal, Kathleen and Tom, Katharine and David, Judy, Reed and Julia, Dar and Michael, David and Melinda, Angela and Howard, Helen, Sheila, Mitchell, Will and Camille, Phyllis, Shammy, Khalid and Zina.
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Ezra Asa Cohen-Watnick is an American intelligence official who served as the acting under secretary of defense for intelligence during the Trump Administration. Wikipedia
Born: May 18, 1986 (age 36 years)
Nationality: American
Spouse: Rebecca Miller (m. 2016)
Education: University of Pennsylvania
Party: Republican Party
President: Donald Trump
Parents: Terry Watnick, Marc Cohen
>>Spouse: Rebecca Miller (m. 2016)
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Rebecca Miller and Ezra Cohen-Watnick were married Novmber 2016. Miller interned at Ketchum, Inc where she did Public Relations for Russia.
Ezra Cohen-Watnick
Intelligence operative in Trump administration: hired by Michael Flynn, fired by H.R. McMasterbater - became a senior adviser to Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April 2018
Cohen-Watnick’s name surfaced in late March 2017 when he was identified as one of two White House officials who had helped provide the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, with intelligence reports indicating that former national security adviser Susan Rice had “unmasked” the identities of several Trump associates.
McMasterbater’s first attempt to sideline Cohen-Watnick came in March after complaints from CIA analysts who had complained about working with him, according to a POLITICO report. But Cohen-Watnick appealed to Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with whom he had developed a close relationship during the transition.
They took the matter directly to the Trump, who overruled his national security adviser. Cohen-Watnick’s removal also coincides with the arrival at the White House of Gen. John Kelly, President Trump’s new chief of staff, who replaced Reince Priebus on Monday. Kelly has quickly asserted control over a chaotic and undisciplined White House, and speculation immediately began to mount that he, in addition to McMasterbater, played a role in the latest NSC shakeup.
Little is known about Cohen-Watnick, who had spent much of his short career as a low-ranking official at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Information about him in publicly available sources is scarce. Few higher-ups from the DIA remember him.
Cohen-watnick was raised in chevy chase, maryland, an affluent suburb of Washington. His father is a lawyer; his mother a doctor; the couple is separated. Cohen-Watnick attended Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School, graduating in 2004. Cohen-Watnick entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2004.
Cohen-Watnick’s history becomes murkier around 2008, his final year at Penn. Cohen-Watnick took a civilian job with the Navy after college. A DIA spokesperson confirmed that Cohen-Watnick had joined the DIA in 2010, and left it in January of 2017.
Newspeak reported that Cohen-Watnick entered the Defense Clandestine Service in 2012 and was sent to “The Farm,” the CIA training facility in Virginia, in 2013. Cohen-Watnick later served overseas in Afghanistan at a CIA base.
Cohen-Watnick met Flynn much later, in 2016, at a coffee arranged by Michael Ledeen’s wife Barbara, who Cohen-Watnick knows from growing up outside of Washington. Ledeen is a friend of Flynn’s and co-authored the book Field of Fight with him. One way or another, Michael Flynn seems to have elevated Cohen-Watnick to his high station in the Trump administration.
What remains a mystery is who exactly has protected him since Flynn went down, and why.
The Nunes scandal cemented Cohen-Watnick's reputation as a loyalist and as someone who could withstand the heat of public controversy.
In April 2018 it was announced that he is taking a job as a senior adviser to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Ezra Cohen-Watnick will provide advice to Sessions on issues related to national security, counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
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