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Wasn't sure if I wanted to put it out there, but I needed a place to let it out. I suppose my situation was too good to be true. Dated for years, but the marriage itself did not make it to a single year, at least unofficially.

It's been a stressful time. She previously had a government job under an agency that doge culled. She loved her job. I realize that as a society we work too much, but to some degree people do want to feel productive and that many people find their workplaces to be places of belonging. She apologized for taking so long to come to this conclusion, but she mentioned that this time away from work has helped a lot with self-reflection.

I was aware that she considered herself bi previously and that she had relations with women before. I wasn't aware of the extent of it. She told me she felt compulsory heterosexuality for a long time, but wasn't entirely sure of it and I was her last chance in regards to men. She told me she still loved me, just not that way, and that I was the best partner she'd ever had, that she was remorseful about not being compatible in that regard. We discussed a lot of more private feelings, mostly trying to understand and showing concern for each other.

I support her. If that's how she feels then that's how she feels, and she deserves to be happy. I'm not angry with her, and we're not leaving each others lives, just changing roles. It still hurts a lot, but that's life sometimes. It isn't anyone's fault.

That said I'm glad I won't be doing anything tomorrow. I'm just struggling to function right now. And yeah, that's how it's going.

Apple will eventually notify the occupants of the vehicle that an unkonwn BLE marker is in their proximity for XX time, but, perhaps they won't find it or know about it. They are pretty fucking stupid.

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When Maher Tarabishi got a phone call from his family on January 23, he expected an update on his son’s health. Tarabishi had been held for three months at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, and his 30-year-old son Wael’s health had been on the decline. Still, Tarabishi was hoping for a full recovery.

The news, though, was not good: Wael had passed away. Maher Tarabishi was in disbelief, breaking down on the phone, according to an account of the call from his daughter-in-law Shahd Arnaout.

“He wouldn’t die without me,” Tarabishi wailed. “There is no way he died without waiting for me.”

“He wouldn’t die without me. There is no way he died without waiting for me.”

Destroyed, Tarabishi had one hope. His attorney, Ali Elhorr, had already been advocating for his release to take care of Wael, but shifted his efforts to securing a release for Wael’s funeral, which was initially scheduled for Wednesday before being moved to Thursday.

At first, ICE officials seemed like they might give in: preliminary discussion included conditions for a temporary release, including scheduling and moving Tarabishi to a detention center that was closer to the funeral home.

“Initial steps in the process had already begun when I received a call from the ICE officer with whom I had been in contact,” Elhorr said in a release. “The officer informed me that his director stepped in and told him that Maher would not be allowed to attend Wael’s burial. This was the final decision.”

ICE did not respond to inquiries from The Intercept, but told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “ICE has NOT received a formal request from anyone to attend funeral services.”

Primary Caretaker

At the time Tarabishi was arrested by ICE, he had been the primary caregiver for Wael. As he was taken, Tarabishi’s first thought was, “Who will take care of my son?” according to Arnaout’s recollection of conversations with her father-in-law.

Wael was born in Arlington, Texas, in 1995, a year after his family immigrated to the U.S. from Jordan. When the boy was 4, he had been diagnosed with Pompe disease, a rare metabolic disease that causes rapid muscular deterioration, according to his family. At the time, the doctor told the family that he might not live past 5, Arnaout said.

“Maher kept him alive,” Araout said. “Wael could not eat or drink by himself. He could not use his arms or legs. So Maher was all of that for him, his lungs, his legs, his arms, everything.”

Tarabishi, meanwhile, had applied for asylum after coming from Jordan, but he was denied. Nonetheless, he went to his regular ICE check-ins once a year for more than a decade and a half. When reports of people being arrested at these check-ins became widespread last year, his family was concerned. Tarabishi, however, was not.

“He had too much faith in the system,” Arnaout said. “He didn’t have any criminal record. He thought they put an appointment for him because they saw he is doing everything right to stay in the country, following all the rules. He never missed a single appointment.”

She said the officers at the local ICE office knew about Wael’s condition and would frequently ask Tarabishi about his son.

On January 23, the day Wael died, Elhorr had filed a motion to reopen Tarabishi’s case with the Board of Immigration Appeals. Elhorr had discovered that the purported attorney who filed Tarabishi’s original asylum application “was fraudulently practicing law without a license,” the family said in a press release.

In an earlier statement, ICE had said that Maher belonged to the “Palestine Liberation Organization” and was a “criminal alien.” While the United States has designated the PLO as a terrorist organization in the past, it is not in the country’s designated list of terrorist organizations currently. Nonetheless, the family denied that Tarabishi had any affiliation with the group.

“He has done no criminal activity,” Arnaout said. “He is an electronic engineer who loves fixing people’s laptops. He is a simple man.”

Deteriorating Conditions

In the months since Tarabishi’s arrest in October, Wael’s condition quickly deteriorated.

He was admitted to a hospital for pneumonia and sepsis in November. Connected to catheters and tubes all over his body, Wael put out a video from the hospital bed.

“The last month has been hell for me,” he says in the video. “My father was my hero, my safe place. He did everything for me 24 hours a day. And ICE took him.”

Wael ended the video with a plea: “Please release him, I am not asking for much, please release him.”

In December, Wael had to be hospitalized for a second time. Eight days before his demise, Wael went in for a surgery.

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“Don’t worry, I will be back for my father,” Wael had told his family, according to Arnaout.

Wael did not wake up for the next eight days and on the night of January 22, his condition worsened drastically. The next morning, the family signed a “do not resuscitate” letter for him. Wael passed away the next day at the Methodist Mansfield Medical Center.

Tarabishi got to speak to Wael a few times from detention. The son, according to Arnaout, made light of his medical woes.

“Don’t worry,” Wael told his father, Arnaout recalled. “I am not going die until I see you. I am not going anywhere, not until I see you.”

The post ICE Arrested Father Who Cared for His Ill Son — Then Denied His Request to Attend Son’s Funeral appeared first on The Intercept.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Canada's premiers today in Ottawa with a focus to "come together and build."

After the U.S. State Department confirmed that Alberta separatists met with the Trump administration, Carney said he expected the United States to always "respect Canadian sovereignty."

The first ministers' meeting comes as potential independence referendums in both Quebec and Alberta are being discussed in those provinces.

Quebec's outgoing premier says most Quebecers don't want to separate, but it's up to them to decide.

An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets — often without patients’ explicit knowledge or consent. The practice, documented in a recent Health, Tech & Society Lab analysis, urgent concerns about privacy, transparency and trust in our health-care system.

The sale of de-identified and anonymized personal health information isn’t new to Canada. In the conventional business model, data brokers act as middlemen, purchasing and pooling de-identified data from clinics. Brokers then conduct analytics for third parties or sell access to the data for research, marketing or product development.

A new “vertically integrated” model is expanding and changing this practice.

Instead of third-party data brokers buying de-identified datasets from clinics, for-profit companies that own chains of medical clinics have become data brokers themselves, with access to identified data and closer control over clinical workflows. The value of patient data held by these chains is valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Because this closer integration “internalizes” patient data within the same ownership structure, data brokers have direct access to patient data as the data custodians. When using this data to develop specialized tools — such as clinical decision support tools — for third parties, companies may avoid regulatory oversight otherwise applicable if data were shared externally.

The most financially lucrative application of this model comes from pharmaceutical companies which pay clinic-owning data brokers to develop algorithms that identify patients who may be eligible for their drugs. These algorithms, called clinical decision support tools, are then embedded into the electronic medical records systems used in broker-owned clinics, shaping how clinicians prescribe. This is occurring without the explicit consent of patients, relying instead on the permission of physicians and clinics alone. Many physicians may not fully appreciate the risks this poses.

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