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  "textContent": "**Four stories of white-collar** workers who left their careers to pursue blue-collar jobs. / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\n**San Francisco’s public school** teachers strike for the first time in 47 years. / The San Francisco Standard\n\n**In Europe,** the Epstein scandal is taking down politicians, whose American counterparts remain unscathed. / Politico\n\n**In Texas,** Republican politicians return to Islamophobia to rally voters for the midterms. / Texas Monthly\n\n**Parker Molloy:** Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do next. / The New Republic\n\n**Reviews for _Melania_ __** represent the biggest critics vs. audience split in Rotten Tomatoes history. / The Hollywood Reporter\n\n**Japan’s first female** prime minister achieves a landslide win. She reportedly uses simple ideas and social media to connect with young voters. / The Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg [$]\n\nIf you enjoy these headlines, please join us as a Sustaining Member to support what we do and unlock access to paywalled links.\n\nSubscribe\n\n**Spotify will soon** sell hardcover and paperback books through its app, in partnership with Bookshop.org. / TechCrunch\n\n**Related:** What it’s like for an author to interact with (a fake) Reese Witherspoon. / The Biblioracle Recommends\n\n**Everything read and** watched by director Steven Soderbergh in 2025 (when he wasn’t watching tennis). / Soderblog\n\n**A good essay by** Heather McCalden on the struggle to articulate the present moment (when it lacks a sense of wonder). / Dirt\n\n**An end-of-life app** is no longer an idea from a dystopian novel, “but a non-trivial possibility.” / Chris Arnade Walks the World\n\n**“I’ve probably lived** a different life than most.” An obituary for a 105-year-old “lobster lady.” / The New York Times [$]\n\nIn the members area, unlocked links from the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the New York Times ↓\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "The feeling when the old world fades away",
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