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Tom Tomashek

@notgoingback2124.bsky.social
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Retired sportswriter, father of 3 educators. Veteran. Avid Cardinals baseball fan. Love travel, reading. biking and my grandkids. Co-author of Town Ball and author of Edgerton, both about Minnesota. Trump is ill.

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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 15h
Amazing, more than $300+ million spent on attempting to elect Ken Paxton for a senate position is deplorable. Think of all the genuine good that money could buy.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 15h
Every appointment makes, his selection involves another incompetent or cringeworthy selection in our government.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 18h
Our election process has become shameful. Rather than emphasizing the candidates' virtues and the parties accomplishments, both sides just pour in more money.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the 1930s Germans stopped asking questions or were threatened from asking questions and the press was stopped from questioning the regime. Today we're seeing some of the same. Keep asking questions, just don't ask AI.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just curious, how many ICE agents are African American or some other dark skin American?
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Senator Kennedy, do you believe in the tooth fairy or the Easter Bunny? Seems reasonable if you believe in Donald Trump.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'd love for John Kennedy to throw up in his mouth, maybe it could stop that fake cornpone accent. He is the Senate's resident thespian. ACTING!!!!!!
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
tHopfeully, if the Dems win both chambers they will work on getting us out of the war and stablizing the economy rather than focus on nailing Trump. That can be done if the Epstein files are released in their entirety.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The AI system installed to answer questions that eliminated bureaucracy originally said Joe Biden won the 2020 election but now claims it cannot answer the question. You can't tell me AI needs no regulations.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jack Smith claims Trump staged an illegal act to reverxe the 2020 election. If Trump really believed Smith was guilty in his statement, he'd take him to court. BUT, then Smith's report could possibly be released and Trump knows it. Ergo, he remains silent.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A heroic man subdues a "jihadist" pilot who was attempting to force the plane to crash. Is there a metaphor involving Jack Smith in that potential tragedy?
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Athletically fit meglomaniacs may apply.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The J6 video and photographs tell the story of J6, then combine that story with Trump's personal track record and one has to ask why Republicans are so stubbornly determined to avoid finding the truth. It's a rhetorical question, I know but . . .
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He must have left Oxford or wherever he was with a book filled with corpone words and phrases.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All this and more in warp speed.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two bruised senators for the price of one.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nah, I'd go with Cannon.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No matter how you slice that contention, you're helping take Trump off the hook.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who do you think Trump would support if both Natalie Harp and Judge Cannon were involved in major scandals?
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One might say, in the words of John Kennedy, Katie Britt must have thrown up in her mouth when she saw Sen. Schmitt violently smacked by the truth in Jack Smith's hearing.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me Tarzan, you Jane!!!!!
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Schmitt might have done a litttle more research on a sports topic if he'd known Democrat Amy Klobuchar's late father was a sportswriter.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heel
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some Republican candidates will say they oppose the war, they'll say they oppose the harsh Canadian tariffs, they'll be critical of Trump's taxpayer funded ads, anything to appease their constituents, but if elected they'll return to Trump's back pocket.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can things get any crazier? The FCC's Carr sees nothing wrong with Trump's ads, paid by taxpayer dollars and Meta's Zuckerberg, father of three daughters, laughs as Trump mocks a woman reporter.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even greater than Schmitt's blunder Tuesday, neither he nor any other Republicans could get Smith to plead the 5th, Trump's favorite amendment.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Isn't Missouri the "Show Me" state? Schmitt sure showed the nation a thing or two yesterday while trying to get the best of Jack Smith
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I watched his workly closely yesterday and if that's his best, I can't imagine what he'd be at his worst. Then, again, the man who praised him isn't one of this nation's stellar citizens.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lead me to the black jack area.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Billionaires seem to believe no regulations are needed in dealing with AI. SCOTUS removed most regulations on the presidency, short of first-degree murder, and look at the liberties Trump is taking.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let me get this straight, Putin, who Trump describes as a friend, is threating nuclear force while Trump is battling Iran to keep them from having nuclear capabilities, while Americans watch the cost of living soar.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump escaped accountability for J6 so he figures he has license to mess with our nation election policy. Bribes, reduced voting places, more bribes and his primary weapon, LIES.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Paxton wins in Texas, you'll have proof that the state really isn't interested in Democracy.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Todd Blanche is on the attack for none other than Donald Trump. Thank you to Cornyn, Tillis and Cassidy, you guys had the chance to deny him the AG job and failed. He's now Trump's henchman as expected.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rather than trying to nail Jack Smith, who is trying to make a difference, the Senate ought to be attempting to reform the misguided acts of ICE.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm really sick of Sen. John Kennedy's corny and cutesy delivery in hearings. I didn't know Jack Kennedy, but I'm certain the La. senator ain't him and he's also not a standup comic.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Republicans distancing from Trump would ultimately support him again if they win election or re-election so even if they are critical of Trump vote for the Democrat.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump and the Republicans have screwed things up so badly that they're pouring tons of money into their campaigns . . . trying to buy their way out of a bad situation rather than trying to fix the problems.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If Ken Paxton wins in Texas, one could assume that Jeffrey Dahmer could have been a sensator in Wisconsin.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If only Ohio and Kentucky voters could get pissed enough at the Republican party the House could be rid of Jim Jordan and James Comer. Ah, at least I can dream.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that Paxton could win the senate race in Texas is both mysterious and frightening.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am sitting here attempting to fine one valid reason to say Americans made the right decision to give Trump a second chance at the presidency.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone on X reportedly described Trump as a "beloved president." Sure, and Pete Hegseth is Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some of our Republican Senators have to be long-time friends of Joe Biden but I haven't heard one of them criticizing Trump for mocking Biden in front of Xi. Shame on them.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Blue common sense, also
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Typical Trump, he goes to a major football game, disrupts the day for everyone, fans and the stadium and community security and then leaves at halftime.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So many new, devious and dangerous people have emerged during Trump's second term, and in places beyond government.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump doesn't want to settle with Iran, he enjoys being a "war" president, and he'll continue to use that stupid narrative of saving the world by keeping nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watching the confirmation hearings is painful because the candidates are so afraid of breaking with the president, even slightly, so they answer questions with meaningless word salads.
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Tom Tomashek @notgoingback2124.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump says he hopes he gets into heaven. That'll work. That means he won't be within many, many light years from America or for that matter anywhere close to this planet.
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