MOTHER JONES DAILY, Billionaires, Bezos, and Trump's Big Beautiful Bill: Pharma Giant Roche Hires Trump to Sell Swanky Condo, The Musk-Trump public wrestling match is back, Dear Joe Rogan, Kash Patel played you, How viability limits end up criminalizing pregnancy, Hungary banned Pride events. Thousands marched anyway., These New England fishermen made peace with offshore wind. Trump wants to end it. 30JUN25

Sea Services captains Jack Morris, left, and Kevin Souza, on the Pamela Ann, a scalloping boat docked in New Bedford, before embarking on a 10-day journey at sea to assist offshore wind construction vessels. Clare Fieseler/Canary Media

June 30, 2025 Happy Monday.  As of this writing, the Senate is about to start voting on President Trump's domestic spending agenda, which is now estimated to add a staggering $3.3 trillion to the deficit and devastate social safety net programs. Poll after poll shows that most people hate the GOP's plan, including Elon Musk, who re-upped his public wrestling match this weekend to blast the bill as "utterly insane." So, who does the bill benefit? The rich, of course. Speaking of, I am still reeling from the nuptials of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. As I wrote in a brief reflection on Sunday, my feed was inundated with photos from the multiday affair, which appeared just as ostentatious and tacky as you probably would expect from this flock. —Inae Oh P.S: This weekend's episode of Reveal explores the wild world of pronatalism, a growing movement that aims to solve the so-called population crisis by making more babies. This week, our colleagues take a look inside NatalCon, a gathering where embryo optimization meets Old Testament values. You can listen to the full episode here.

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These New England fishermen made peace with offshore wind. Trump wants to end it. This "is the number one way for scallop guys, captains, mates, deckhands, to make extra money.” BY CLARE FIESELER

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