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Israel ended its two-day assault on a West Bank Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday, in the city of Jenin.

• The Israeli military withdrew its troops from a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, ending an intense operation that killed at least 13 Palestinians and injured dozens more, drove thousands of people from their homes, and left a wide swath of destruction. One Israeli soldier was also killed, which is less than 13. 
   
• The Jenin raid was long planned and one of the most intense Israeli military operations in two decades. The largest was in 2002 when Israeli forces killed 52 Palestinians in a 10 day assault on Jenin, ironically called Operation Defensive Shield. Israel has been carrying out near-daily raids in the West Bank since early 2022 in response to a series of deadly Palestinian attacks, which is always the narrative, despite Palestine’s lack of arms relative to Israel. 
   
• It wasn’t just some missiles, either. They went at it. The Israeli army apparently ran through the streets and back alleys with bulldozers, flattening cars and knocking out electricity in parts. They said the bulldozers were necessary because the streets were lined with explosives and the motivation behind the offensive is to target the growing armed resistance in Jenin, such as the Jenin Brigades, a Palestinian militant group created in the Jenin refugee camp in 2021.

What was accomplished? Who "won"? What's next?

• It certainly hasn’t done much if anything to calm the violence. The withdrawal came hours after a Hamas militant rammed his car into a crowded Tel Aviv bus stop and began stabbing people, wounding eight, including a pregnant woman who reportedly lost her baby. The attacker was eventually killed by a…good guy with a gun. Hamas took credit and said it was revenge for the Jenin raid.
   
• Palestinian armed resistance groups have previously called for direct confrontations against Israeli occupation forces, and have garnered widespread support across the West Bank and Gaza. So, it seems the conflict will intensify. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already warned about the raid that it won't be "a one-off." Activist Awni al-Mashni added that “The same thing will happen in the West Bank and also take place in Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, and Bethlehem, and the people will continue to resist.”

On the most recent episode of Work Appropriate, host Anne Helen Petersen is joined by Alisa Chang, one of the hosts of NPR's All Things Considered. Together, they delve into Alisa' story of being a successful lawyer into her early 30s but realizing she was totally miserable. The two answered listener submitted questions about escaping a post-college career without direction, explaining career pivots in job interviews, monetizing hobbies, and the essence of a career itself.

Talk of trouble at the Zapoizhzhia power plant in Ukraine has been escalating for the past few days. There have been warnings of a possible meltdown since Russia took over the plant in March 2022 but Ukraine has claimed that Russia has placed explosives on the roof the plant. On Wednesday, the Kremlin offered that the plant was in danger, but only of possible Ukrainian sabotage, going so far as to claim that Ukraine was planning to strike the plant with a “tactical ballistic missile tipped with a nuclear waste-filled warhead.” Well, that’s specific and very unlikely to be true. 

But if the plant blows, there is little worry of far-reaching catastrophe. A ray of light was offered by Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Insititute for Disarmament Research in Geneva who said, “It is actually quite difficult to arrange a significant reactive incident here. Even if you try to blow it up, I don’t think you could spread” the radiation beyond a few hundred yards. Adjust your travel plans accordingly.

• COCAINEGATE 2023. A baggie containing white powder was found in the White House, causing a brief evacuation on Sunday. On Tuesday it was confirmed to be…cocaine! Don’t worry, President Joe Biden, a man no one suspects of using cocaine, was at Camp David at the time, punching drug dealers and calling them all Jack.
   
• Speaking of Jacks: Jack of all raids, Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed the Arizona Secretary of State's office as part of his investigation into the events leading up to Jan. 6.
   
• We just recorded the hottest day ever on July 3 as the average global temperature reached 62.9 degrees. Never has jacket weather sounded so terrifying.
   
• A Trump-appointed lunatic judge has blocked the Biden administrationfrom working with social-media firms on ‘protected speech’ in a weird partisan ruling about the protection of free speech. The Justice Department is reviewing the case. 
   
• The lord Bingeth and the lord taketh away. Our lord, ChatGPT, added the Bing search engine to expand its knowledge base but apparently, it worked too well, accessing websites and bypassing firewalls, so it has disabled the search engine feature to tinker with it and make it worse. 
   
• Chirlane McCray found that Bill really put the “Blah” in de Blasio and the couple is officially separating. Get your forks and knives out ladies, it’s time for a pizza date with America’s most boring former mayor. 
   
• Celebrity defender of Richard Jewell, Kyle Rittenhouse, and more Lin Wood announced his retirement from the legal profession before he can be disbarred in Georgia. He’s representing himself in lawsuits leveled against him so I guess he’s gonna need to find new counsel. 
   
• The Queen of Nxivm Allison Mack was freed from prison a year early and is no doubt excited to get her red-hot acting career back on track. 
   
• We’ve now reached the worst kind of gender equality in sports. The playing field has been evened when it comes to injuries. CTE has been diagnosed in the first female athlete, an Australian Rules Footballer named Heather Anderson.
   
• Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest is now the most predictable event of the year.The guy who always wins won for the 16th time, the lady who always wins won for the ninth time, and for the 50th year in a row, everyone in attendance went home a took a long hard look at themselves.
   
• Meta is taking another run at Twitter’s dominance with new “Twitter Killer” app called, boringly, Threads. 
   
• Things keep getting worse for women in Afghanistan as the Taliban ordered Afghanistan's beauty salons to close, ending one of the last types of business that offers women both employment and social networks. 
   
• While we peons squabble about how much to tip each other, the world's 500 richest assholes have become 852 Billion dollars wealthier in 2023 which works out to roughly 14 million dollars a day for each rich asshole.

Tuesday was…our…Independence Day. And with that comes the all-too-common chaos of fireworks. A woman in Michigan was killed and eight others were injured by shrapnel after a homemade firework exploded. In Texas, a man lost his life in a house fire after nearly 300 three-inch fireworks shells ignited. In California, a man lost parts of his hand in one incident and a house was set on fire in another. At least it seems the commercial fireworks are doing less damage than in recent years. But people trying to make their own is still a big problem. For its part, Michigan has banned fireworks starting on July 5. Which, seems pretty easy to accomplish. 

It wasn’t all janky fireworks doing the killing this year though. A man died in Kentucky while trying to light a commercial-grade firework designed for electronic detonation. But the king of Independence Day deaths is still guns. Ten people were killed in in three different mass shootings yesterday. And you’ll recall that seven were killed in the Highland Park shooting on July 4 of last year. The holiday is inching closer and closer to the Purge every year and many Americans might be better off adopting a tradition of becoming independent of leaving their house for a night.

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Let's just quote the lede here: Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI), a former public school teacher, "used his broad partial veto authority this week to sign into law a new state budget that increases funding for public schools for the next four centuries."

Subway is going even further to combat its reputation for highly processed, non-bread, non-tuna sandwiches. They are now slicing meat at the store, which is something all of the good chains have been doing for a while. 

Even if you’re teeth have rotted from all of that pre-sliced meat, Japan has a cure as they are close to medicine allowing you to regrow your teeth. 

Smartwatches could detect Parkinson’s symptoms seven years before hallmark symptoms appear.