rep. raskin says his son thomas has died at 25

He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he majored in history and wrote his senior thesis on the intellectual history of the animal rights movement. Raskin said his son hated cliques and social snobbery, never had a negative word for anyone - except for tyrants and despots - and opposed malicious gossip, often stopping gossipers by saying, “Forgive me, but it’s hard to be a human.” He was active in speech and debate and the Young Dems, where he got in involved in President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection effort. He co-founded Bliss, a life-changing peer-to-peer tutoring program, where he spent hours tutoring fellow students in math and English. In high school, Tommy Raskin’s “adult persona began to take shape.” He also studied in Paris during a family sabbatical year.

Tommy, as he was known to his family, was “raised on a fine Montgomery County Education,” Raskin said - from Takoma Park and Pine Crest elementary schools, Eastern Middle School and Montgomery Blair High School. “On the last hellish brutal day of that godawful miserable year of 2020, when hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world died alone in bed in the darkness from an invisible killer disease ravaging their bodies and minds, we also lost our dear, dear, beloved son, Hannah and Tabitha’s beloved irreplaceable brother, a radiant light in this broken world,” Raskin said in a statement published on Medium.

Raskin announced on New Year’s Eve that his son Thomas Bloom Raskin, 25, had died. Jamie Raskin and his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, released a loving tribute to their son, who died last week.

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Rep. raskin says his son thomas has died at 25