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On Friday, the Buffalo-based Investigative Post reported that New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

In a letter to Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-N.Y.), James wrote that her “office is continuing to gather and review facts as to any state or local involvement in this tragedy” and is prepared to coordinate with federal authorities as necessary. James also said her office is coordinating with the Buffalo Police Department to “canvass for additional witnesses and surveillance footage” that may help her office understand what happened to Shah Alam.

“The loss of life under these circumstances demands a searching and independent assessment of what occurred,” James wrote. “I also agree that a close examination of release and transfer protocols of vulnerable individuals from law enforcement custody is warranted.”

Since his death was initially reported, more information has also come out about Buffalo police officers’ initial arrest of Shah Alam, who did not speak English. Shah Alam had wandered to a woman’s home and seemed confused about his location. Viewing body cam footage, the Washington Post reported that Shah Alam apologized while slowly approaching police officers, who responded by tasing him.

Google is seeking to bypass data center zoning rules recently adopted by Linn County, Iowa, by annexing the land for its proposed campus into a city two miles away.

If approved by city officials in Palo, the move would free Google from the water-use and economic agreements that Linn County developed for unincorporated areas with input from the company’s representatives. Though Palo is part of the county, the data center would be subject to the city’s rules, not the county’s.

The workaround is “fundamentally wrong,” said Sami Scheetz, supervisor for Linn County’s 2nd District, in a statement issued by the county on Wednesday. “Let’s be clear about what is happening here. We negotiated in good faith. And Google’s response was to go find a local government that will ask for less.”

In contrast to the person who sent this email, I don't think that taxpayers are stupid.

We're not paying physicists for crazy new hype.

We want to see results and soon taxpayers will start asking some tough questions, an example.

So, they told you that this due next experiment that's being built from some billions dollars of public funds at Formula will tell us why we exist, or why the university disappear.

I regret to inform you that it won't do any such thing, regardless of what the result of the experiment will be.

It'll not tell us why the universe contains more meta than antimatter, because this question is impossible to answer within the context of our current theories, the matter antimatter symmetry are duna supposedly shedding light on is a pseudo problem.

You're not supposed to ask you're supposed to believe that you're too stupid to understand what it's good for, but let me fill you in it's good.

You're not supposed to ask you're supposed to believe that you're too stupid to understand what it's good for, but let me fill you in.

It's a good Article physicists employed.

Meanwhile, the Chinese are laughing.

They are so soft that you think it makes your country worth defending, but that particle physicists have created these bubbles of useless research is not a problem that can be fixed from inside the community.

The only way to fix the problem is to stop paying them.

I am afraid that this is exactly what's going to happen.

I didn't want this to happen.

This is why I wrote my 2017 comment, but at this point, it's too late for them to change anything about it.

I've read this email dozens of times, and each time I'm struck by how condescending it is to all the people who do honest work and whose taxes pay for academic jobs.

It makes me sick, and it makes me glad that I no longer have anything to do with their so-called research area that's rotten to the core.

If you are one of the many physicists who know full well what nonsense research I'm talking about, but you still keep your mouth shut if you're one of those who laugh at me, because no one believes what I'm saying.

If you're one of those who spread lies about me, like that story, that I was invited to give a talk at CERN, but was afraid to go.

Did you make that up?

I hope it was amusing, but Jesus, use your fking brain.

Your problem isn't that I'm making noise.

Your problem is that you're lying to the people who pay you.

Is that your cowards, without a shred of Integrity?

Your problem is that every bubble eventually bursts, by the way.

I'm on Webtoons for some reason

It did hold on through a layoff, so that was nice of it at least lmao, RIP :'c

According to the Journal, an intelligence community whistleblower filed a highly-classified complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), an independent watchdog office, in May 2025. Among the allegations was a claim that Gabbard’s office blocked the proper distribution of the complaint for eight months — including to Congress — for political reasons. Another alleged that lawyers, presumably from the DNI’s Office of General Counsel, failed to refer a potential crime to the Justice Department for political reasons.

We don’t know the substance of the intelligence report underlying the whistleblower complaint, but the government claims it is “exquisitely” classified, which raises an immediate problem: That’s not a real classification level. The report apparently involves an intelligence service intercepting a conversation between two foreign nationals about Iran and Jared Kushner’s influence on his father-in-law, the president. At the time, the Trump administration was considering a strike on Iran, which in fact occurred at the end of June 2025.

Emergency physicians at St. Boniface Hospital said it's demoralizing to see long wait times at Manitoba's second-largest hospital, and elsewhere in the health-care system, having become increasingly normalized over the years.

Dr. Aaron Guinn says 57 people were waiting for care at the Winnipeg emergency department as of his last shift Wednesday evening. The doctor said those numbers would have once been "unheard of," but it wasn't even the worst day the department has had this week.

About 70 people were stuck in the waiting room Monday, Dr. Noam Katz — who also works at the emergency department — told CBC News. Some were waiting for care for 20 hours or more without seeing any movement, he said.

Guinn said there were 75 people waiting for care that evening, which he said would be an all-time record for the hospital. The previous record of 74 was set shortly after the new emergency department opened last fall, Guinn said.