Grey Gowder

(he/him)

Filmmaker, Writer, Educator, & Environmental Advocate
Carolina Ocean Alliance Founder
@ScarvesNSpikes contributor
@SOAlliance Young Ocean Leader

[NWS Charleston, SC @NWSCharlestonSC]

The low this morning at CHS was 67 degrees. This marks the first time the temp has fallen below 70 degrees since 6/25, a streak of 82 days (6/26-9/15). This is the longest such streak on record. #scwx #chswx

[Live5News @Live5News]

Folly Beach letting nature build next line of defense through a living shoreline #chsnews https://t.co/GTPaz1GESp

[Grey Gowder @Grey_Gowder]

@aufcXylph There's a fair amount out there a lot earlier than usual. It is just dispersed across a lot of different places.

[Grey Gowder @Grey_Gowder]

@RobUsry Are Adrian Gill and Adyn Torres also traveling with the first team?

[Grey Gowder @Grey_Gowder]

@aufcXylph I thought he went to Duke

[Grey Gowder @Grey_Gowder]

@aufcXylph Toto is HGP eligible. He played for our academy for a little bit before his 2s deal so I think he has eligibility the same way Kovac does.

[Chad Pergram @ChadPergram]

Late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had already secured the GOP nomination to be on the ballot this fall for a fifth term. So it’s likely that South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) will tap someone to serve out the balance of his term.

It is unclear if this would be a caretaker. Or, it’s possible that McMaster and President Trump may want to give someone a head start and appoint their preferred candidate to run for the entire six-year term.

Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) both ran unsuccessfully for governor. Both are out of the House in January. But they have a fought relationship with President Trump.

Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) wants to return to private life.

Take a long look at Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC). Also Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and SC Lt. Gov. Pamela Yvette.

Under South Carolina law, the GOP would likely have a “lightning” primary, sometime in the next five or six weeks to pick who to succeed Graham on the ballot.

The winner of that primary would then be up on the general election ballot in November. Whoever the GOP picks will be on the ballot against Democratic nominee Annie Andrews in November. The winner there would then be in place for the entire six-year term beginning in January, 2027.

In addition, Senate Republicans will need to find another chairman of the Budget Committee. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is next in line. But he currently chairs Judiciary.

The death of Graham probably makes it very tough to get budget reconciliation 3.0 done. That’s to say nothing about confirming Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche or even getting that nominee out of committee.

And remember that we have scant information about the status of former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who has been hospitalized for a month.

[Scarves and Spikes @ScarvesNSpikes]

Exclusive: Chris Henderson sat down with Scarves and Spikes to lay out Atlanta United's summer transfer window and what it might look like.

"There's a lot of things that are in motion and a lot of things in the air."

MORE: https://t.co/H9j66P7Mks

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 UK lawyer Paul Powlesland cleaned 200 bags of waste from a polluted river.

Fish and dragonflies have returned.

Now he faces up to 2 years in prison for doing it without a permit.

This is modern Britain: punishing people who actually clean up the environment while the bureaucracy strangles common sense.

Absolutely insane.

Source: @Coinvo / Writer: Oliver

[Grey Gowder @Grey_Gowder]

@MoundLore I think I know that spot. Is it the old fort on Otter Island?

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

NYC and every city across the US needs urban bio swales as well. These work in concert with your sewage system by diverting a portion of rainwater into the ground, recharging the aquifer, absorbing carbon, supporting pollinators, and making the city beautiful. More please

[Jessiah @thepondering_]

CNN also reports that this settlement also forces the IRS to end any active audits into Trump, his family, and his businesses

Not only does it further protect POTUS from accountability, but he's expanding this shield to Don Jr. and Eric and Ivanka and Jared and their interests

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history.

They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The bones of hundreds of mid-sized cities in the USA are already there, but we need a nationwide plan to build rail between them, invest in their sustainable future, and liberalize zoning so that millions of families can once again afford to live in their urban cores.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

What Zohran Mamdani is doing is NOT EVEN SOCIALISM. You know what he's doing? He's showing what can be accomplished when the WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES.

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

All civilisations collapse for basically the same reason: they could have responded to reality but they didn't.

Our civilisation is no different as we face the consequences of runaway climate collapse: we can but we won't.

“New Orleans is in a terminal condition, and we need to be clear with the patient that it is terminal,” he said. “There is an opportunity for palliative care, we can transition people and the economy. We can get ahead of this.”

But, he added, “no politician wants to first give this terminal diagnosis. They will speak about it behind closed doors, but never in public.”

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[MoundLore @MoundLore]

Mississippi River LiDAR

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

In an effort to enhance the prestige of vocational training, the Danish government is building 3 new Håndværkskollegiet (craft colleges).

This one, in Herning, opened last year. It hosts up to 85 people at once, & specialises in masonry, carpentry, plumbing & metal.

Stunning!