bikbio.bsky.social
@bikbio.bsky.social
Biologist, educator, pro-pronoun.
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Complete Regression of Hepatoblastoma after Interleukin-15– and Interleukin-21–Coexpressing CAR T-Cell Therapy

Success using CAR T cells expressing IL-15 and IL-21 against a solid tumour!

www.nejm.org/doi/10....
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September 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Worst president ever with worst cabinet ever with negotiators who are serving Putin.
September 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/
September 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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They never listen to the bible or the pledge of allegiance. They just interpret it in the most mean-spirited, awful ways.
September 12, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Judge Luttig has again performed a great service to the U.S. Constitution and our republic by exposing the treachery the Trumpsters have planned for 1/3/27, the new 1/6/21, and wisely outlining what must be done to stop the evil coup in its tracks.

judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...
January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress
judgeluttig327269.substack.com
September 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
www.houstonchronicle.com
September 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Front page of Dallas Morning News. "Jason Jisa used red rope to block off his gold Mercedes, signed by [DJT], parked outside of the American Airlines Center" - and something about affordability.
September 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Today I'll be reporting live from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, for @dmagazine.bsky.social, which applied for press access but never received a response. Consequently, I will have the general admission experience. First step: drive ~30 minutes outside of Dallas to Grand Prairie.

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September 9, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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A lot of people cannot bring themselves to admit that people don't just vote for the far-right because of left insufficiency on economics. They vote for the far-right because they support the far-right's racist authoritarian agenda.
On Germany: something I can’t stand is the idea that the Left and the Green parties haven’t offed arguments about the cost of living. They have! It’s just that they haven’t offered *hate*. The AfD have offered hate, that is their most passionate offering, that is primarily why they are thriving.
September 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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This Day in Labor History: September 7, 1933. Cranberry workers on Cape Cod went on strike to protest their terrible wages and working conditions, threatening the ability of Americans to have some taste to their bland, mushy, dry, and overcooked Thanksgiving dinner. Happy Labor Day!
September 7, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Regime change!

OK, no regime change. Unconditional surrender!

OK, no surrender. Nuclear deal!

OK, no nuclear deal. But we control Hormuz!

OK, we don’t control Hormuz. But we’re squeezing them economically into concessions!

OK, no concessions. But maybe a future president can get something, IDK.
Chris Wright now says there may be no deal with Iran after all: "There may not be a nuclear agreement. It may be simply destroying their capabilities to do it. An agreement may await the next administration in Iran. We simply don't know that."
September 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Federal minimum wage in:

2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
2025: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
September 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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The most insane thing about the Bartiromo flap is that there was apparently an ethical line that someone at Fox News could cross I
mean who knew
September 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Removing direct care for minority women while funding a fixation on sperm counts is purely fascistic behavior; harm coupled with perversions, rooted in bigotry and misogyny.
September 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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23 US states/territories have COVlD outbreaks. You can use this promo code to get 20% off FlowFlex rapid tests.

That's the test my family uses and that I give to patients and staff because it has >98% sensitivity.

Code: FLEX23
store.pharmalynk.com
August 24, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
September 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
captimes.com
September 4, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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Although Port of Antwerp-Bruges has a reduced TEU throughput in 1st H 2026 compared to 1H 2025 by 1.5%, it did move up one place in the port world ranking and is 13th in the world according to the Alphaliner ranking
August 26, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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just talk about musk the way republicans would if he was a democrat

a bigoted antisemitic weird foreign billionaire with a weird breeding fetish and a nazi pedo chatbot is funding the republican party.

if republicans don't denounce, we know they are pro-nazi pedo bot and the voters should know.
I wrote this piece a few hours ago about how Musk bears responsibility for today's GOP and how they, in turn, must be held responsible for his extremism, but the dollar figures are already out of date.

A hateful bigot is funding the Republican midterm campaign.

Seems sorta like a big deal?
Elon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.
September 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
September 1, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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The new CDC Director is indeed the one who ordered the count of measles deaths to be changed from 2 to 0.

“The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments, which historically make the determinations”.
New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data
The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).
www.washingtonpost.com
August 31, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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A new report finds that most abortion patients can’t afford care amid the cost-of-living crisis. Abortion funds are seeing an increase in clients as their own resources dwindle, and many clinics are offering large discounts to help patients get care—which means absorbing financial losses.
Exclusive: ‘Toothpicks and Band-Aids’ Can’t Keep Abortion Clinics Open
A new report finds that most abortion patients can’t afford care amid the cost-of-living crisis. Clinics and abortion funds are absorbing huge losses as a result.
www.autonomynews.co
September 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO.

My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say.

The new CDC Director is failing us.
The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
www.inquirer.com
August 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Walmart spent $43.4B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2025, enough to give each of its 2.1M workers annual bonuses of $2,953.

Last year, retiring CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $29.2M — his largest payday ever and 958x Walmart's median worker pay of $30,520.

Textbook corporate greed.
August 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.
Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.
Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.
www.chronicle.com
August 29, 2026 at 12:56 PM