Tom Comerford
@tomcomerford.bsky.social
info tech consultant and lifelong student of archaeology, astronomy, journalism, economics... and aspiring philanthropist
Any factual history of the insurrection and related schemes to overturn the 2020 election results must also chronicle the efforts to whitewash that history. The 2020 election wasn't overturned, but there's an ongoing effort to delegitimize the result.
Local TV news anchor and reporter in Denver
COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
January 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Any factual history of the insurrection and related schemes to overturn the 2020 election results must also chronicle the efforts to whitewash that history. The 2020 election wasn't overturned, but there's an ongoing effort to delegitimize the result.
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Parents everywhere want to do everything possible to protect their kids and help them thrive. Secretary Kennedy just robbed us of one of the easiest ways to keep our kids safe, through routine science-based vaccine schedules. I'm angry about the kids that will suffer because of this cruel decision.
When science is sidelined, children get hurt. In his latest anti-science move, RFK Jr. ignored overwhelming scientific evidence, bypassed the established review process for vaccine recommendations, and all but guaranteed that more children will get sick.
US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without c...
apnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Parents everywhere want to do everything possible to protect their kids and help them thrive. Secretary Kennedy just robbed us of one of the easiest ways to keep our kids safe, through routine science-based vaccine schedules. I'm angry about the kids that will suffer because of this cruel decision.
This: "there’s something deeply thuggish about this entire affair, and fundamentally contrary to what I’d always understood the United States’ position in the world to be."
"If we hadn’t already, we’ve unquestionably joined the league of ordinary nations—a league in which we’re acting as little more than a bully, and in circumstances in which no obvious principle of self-defense, human rights, or even humantarianism writ large justifies our bellicosity."
Me on Maduro:
Me on Maduro:
200. Five Questions About the Maduro Arrest Operation
Friday night's U.S. military operation in Venezuela was a textbook violation of international law. It's also entirely unauthorized by U.S. law, which ought to (but probably won't) matter.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This: "there’s something deeply thuggish about this entire affair, and fundamentally contrary to what I’d always understood the United States’ position in the world to be."
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For those on Medicare in AZ, NJ, OH, OK, TX and WA, you will now get to experience the joys of AI deciding on prior authorizations for 17 procedures.
These include “Diagnosis and Treatment of Impotence”, a condition from which every Republican Congressperson suffers.
Full list in the article.
These include “Diagnosis and Treatment of Impotence”, a condition from which every Republican Congressperson suffers.
Full list in the article.
New Medicare Changes in 2026: Prior Approval Required for These 17 Services
Starting Jan 1, 2026, Medicare will require prior authorization for 17 procedures in six states: Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. The WISeR program aims to cut waste, reduce...
www.resourcemedicare.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For those on Medicare in AZ, NJ, OH, OK, TX and WA, you will now get to experience the joys of AI deciding on prior authorizations for 17 procedures.
These include “Diagnosis and Treatment of Impotence”, a condition from which every Republican Congressperson suffers.
Full list in the article.
These include “Diagnosis and Treatment of Impotence”, a condition from which every Republican Congressperson suffers.
Full list in the article.
"When scientific claims seem to threaten cherished values, beliefs, or interests, people are motivated to reject them."
Science is widely trusted in general, but people can use their 'pro-science' identity as a shield. By claiming that science they disagree with isn't 'real' science, they can ignore the facts without feeling like they've abandoned their principles.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why science is revered and rejected
Scientists and their work are often dismissed, ignored, or attacked, yet in general, science is widely trusted and esteemed. This article examines how…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"When scientific claims seem to threaten cherished values, beliefs, or interests, people are motivated to reject them."
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People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world. They mistake swagger for strength & skill.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
Opinion | Why We Fall for Narcissistic Leaders, Starting in Grade School
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world. They mistake swagger for strength & skill.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve.
Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.
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☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
Merry Christmas to all,
and to all a good night!
and to all a good night!
December 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Merry Christmas to all,
and to all a good night!
and to all a good night!
What RFKjr doesn't want you to think about.
Travel back in time to the pre vaccine era.
See the impact of eliminating vaccines. Then, create your own vaccine schedule and see an estimate of the death and disease you would reintroduce.
#vaccines #CDC #medsky
scienceaccountability.org/counterfactu...
See the impact of eliminating vaccines. Then, create your own vaccine schedule and see an estimate of the death and disease you would reintroduce.
#vaccines #CDC #medsky
scienceaccountability.org/counterfactu...
The Vaccine Scheduler - Science Accountability Institute
See the public health impact of changes to vaccine schedules. Make your own vaccine schedule and see how disease rates change.
scienceaccountability.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What RFKjr doesn't want you to think about.
How to acknowledge you're violating international law (not that it's a secret)
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
How to acknowledge you're violating international law (not that it's a secret)
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Temu ACIP, having shed all scientific credibility, put children at greater risk of severe chronic disease and premature death in adulthood, and embarrassed themselves in front of the world, has just adjourned.
December 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Temu ACIP, having shed all scientific credibility, put children at greater risk of severe chronic disease and premature death in adulthood, and embarrassed themselves in front of the world, has just adjourned.
I need an app to click 'like' on any post by @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social who is doing an awesome job of exposing the rampant misinformation being perpetrated on the American people at today's ACIP meeting.
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I need an app to click 'like' on any post by @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social who is doing an awesome job of exposing the rampant misinformation being perpetrated on the American people at today's ACIP meeting.
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"This disease has gone down in the US thanks to the effectiveness of our current immunization program," says Dr. Cody Meissner.
"... In your opinion?" ACIP's Dr. Robert Malone.
"Hah, well, okay, these are facts, Robert..."
🙈 #ACIP
"... In your opinion?" ACIP's Dr. Robert Malone.
"Hah, well, okay, these are facts, Robert..."
🙈 #ACIP
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"This disease has gone down in the US thanks to the effectiveness of our current immunization program," says Dr. Cody Meissner.
"... In your opinion?" ACIP's Dr. Robert Malone.
"Hah, well, okay, these are facts, Robert..."
🙈 #ACIP
"... In your opinion?" ACIP's Dr. Robert Malone.
"Hah, well, okay, these are facts, Robert..."
🙈 #ACIP
He cites gaps in vaccine safety research, oblivious to his own gaps in understanding decades of research. RFK Jr is uniquely unqualified and a clear danger to public health.
This needs to stop! RFK Jr needs to go! He is destroying the meaning of science, scientific evidence, and science-based medical practice. He needs to be removed from his position asap.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
He cites gaps in vaccine safety research, oblivious to his own gaps in understanding decades of research. RFK Jr is uniquely unqualified and a clear danger to public health.
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RFK Jr. apparently promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t delete the statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
Instead, RFK Jr. published a litany of lies claiming that vaccines *do* cause autism, left the statement with an asterisk, and added this:
Instead, RFK Jr. published a litany of lies claiming that vaccines *do* cause autism, left the statement with an asterisk, and added this:
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
RFK Jr. apparently promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t delete the statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
Instead, RFK Jr. published a litany of lies claiming that vaccines *do* cause autism, left the statement with an asterisk, and added this:
Instead, RFK Jr. published a litany of lies claiming that vaccines *do* cause autism, left the statement with an asterisk, and added this:
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Scientific misinformation is a carcinogen.
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Scientific misinformation is a carcinogen.
"Silence, for me, is now intolerable." As it should be for more of us.
Gifting this article from The Atlantic by a judge appointed by Reagan, who is resigning so he can speak out about how Trump is destroying the rule of law. Must read.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Silence, for me, is now intolerable." As it should be for more of us.
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When you see alarming health headlines, always ask:
– Has the study been peer-reviewed?
– Was it observational or experimental?
– How big was the actual risk difference?
Science takes time, and context matters!
– Has the study been peer-reviewed?
– Was it observational or experimental?
– How big was the actual risk difference?
Science takes time, and context matters!
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
When you see alarming health headlines, always ask:
– Has the study been peer-reviewed?
– Was it observational or experimental?
– How big was the actual risk difference?
Science takes time, and context matters!
– Has the study been peer-reviewed?
– Was it observational or experimental?
– How big was the actual risk difference?
Science takes time, and context matters!
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MBFC's Weekly Media Literacy Quiz Covering the Week of Oct 26th - Nov 1st
MBFC’s Weekly Media Literacy Quiz Covering the Week of Oct 26th – Nov 1st
Welcome to our weekly media literacy quiz. This quiz will test your knowledge of the past week's events with a focus on facts, misinformation, bias, and general media literacy. Please share and compare your results. Media Literacy = the ability to critically analyze stories presented in the mass media and to determine their accuracy or credibility. Do you appreciate our work?
mediabiasfactcheck.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
MBFC's Weekly Media Literacy Quiz Covering the Week of Oct 26th - Nov 1st
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This Media Literacy Week, I’m highlighting three research-backed habits that help us stay grounded and think clearly online:
🧠 Critical ignoring
💡 Actively open-minded thinking
🔍 Lateral reading
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/three-medi...
🧠 Critical ignoring
💡 Actively open-minded thinking
🔍 Lateral reading
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/three-medi...
Three Media Literacy Must-Haves
Critical ignoring, open-minded thinking, and lateral reading are essential skills for navigating today’s information chaos.
matthewfacciani.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This Media Literacy Week, I’m highlighting three research-backed habits that help us stay grounded and think clearly online:
🧠 Critical ignoring
💡 Actively open-minded thinking
🔍 Lateral reading
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/three-medi...
🧠 Critical ignoring
💡 Actively open-minded thinking
🔍 Lateral reading
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/three-medi...
"Discrediting science and scientists is thus an essential first step for authoritarian regimes to then discredit any other types of learning and truth and destabilize their societies."
The current war on science, and who’s behind it arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
arstechnica.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Discrediting science and scientists is thus an essential first step for authoritarian regimes to then discredit any other types of learning and truth and destabilize their societies."
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September 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...
Brendan Carr Isn't Going to Stop Until Someone Makes Him
Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop.
www.wired.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...
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Defend Public Health’s Press Release on RFK Jr.’s ACIP.
“I have never personally witnessed more dangerous misinformation presented at a putative scientific meeting in my entire life”.
-Me
“I have never personally witnessed more dangerous misinformation presented at a putative scientific meeting in my entire life”.
-Me
ACIP Presentation on COVID Vaccines “Smoke and Mirrors, Designed to Cause Fear” | Defend Public Health
Defend Public Health called today’s attempt by officials under the direction of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using this week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting to cast doubt...
www.defendpublichealth.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Defend Public Health’s Press Release on RFK Jr.’s ACIP.
“I have never personally witnessed more dangerous misinformation presented at a putative scientific meeting in my entire life”.
-Me
“I have never personally witnessed more dangerous misinformation presented at a putative scientific meeting in my entire life”.
-Me