Sean Freeman

Democratic Candidate for U.S. House OH- 11 || All opinions are my own and do not represent those of my employer || Have a good day, today

[☭Comrade Kat⚒︎ @nowwerevolt]

The only data centers we need

[Manosai @manosaie]

Beautiful essay on adult friendship

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House in 1979, and he never stopped pushing for renewable energy.

In 2017, at 92, he leased 10 acres of his own farmland in Plains, Georgia to SolAmerica. The 3,852 panels generate 1.3 megawatts on a clear day and supply over half the town's electricity.

The contract runs through 2042. By then it will have produced 55 million kilowatt-hours of clean energy.

UGA researchers are now using the site to study agrivoltaics, planting wildflowers under the panels to support pollinators while the array generates power above them.

Rosalynn Carter championed pollinator corridors before her death in 2023. The wildflowers under the panels are partly her legacy.

Carter passed away in December 2024 at 100, in the same town where he was born and farmed peanuts.

The panels he leased the land for keep turning toward the sun, powering the town that raised him, on land his family worked for generations.

[City of Cleveland @CityofCleveland]

Today, the City has rejected the permit application for the data center proposed at 3560 E. 55th St. in the Slavic Village neighborhood.

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

On today's episode of "if more people knew about this Ohio bill there'd be riots" https://t.co/w07elSOIFp

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We live on a planet where trees communicate, octopuses dream, elephants honor their dead, bees dance to find their way, crows remember, ants build, cats heal with their purring, and the forest, after the fire, blooms again.

[Sean Freeman @SPFsunscreen]

“Why not you? Why not now?
Why not try”

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

No votes on amendment to farm bill allowing hot rotisserie chicken to be bought by individuals on SNAP:

🟥Mark Alford (MO)
🟥Jodey Arrington (TX)
🟥Tom Barrett (MI)
🟥Aaron Bean (FL)
🟥Josh Brecheen (OK)
🟥Tim Burchett (TN)
🟦Judy Chu (CA)
🟦Angie Craig (MN)
🟦Mark DeSaulnier (CA)
🟥Tom Emmer (MN)
🟦Dwight Evans (PA)
🟥Russ Fulcher (ID)
🟥Andrew Garbarino (NY)
🟦Jesús “Chuy” García (IL)
🟥Brandon Gill (TX)
🟥Glenn Grothman (WI)
🟥Diana Harshbarger (TN)
🟦Hakeem Jeffries (NY)
🟦Hank Johnson (GA)
🟥Dusty Johnson (SD)
🟦George Latimer (NY)
🟥Lisa McClain (MI)
🟥Tom McClintock (CA)
🟦Jim McGovern (MA)
🟦Grace Meng (NY)
🟥Ralph Norman (SC)
🟥Jay Obernolte (CA)
🟥Scott Perry (PA)
🟦Luz Rivas (CA)
🟥Chip Roy (TX)
🟦Jan Schakowsky (CA)
🟥Keith Self (TX)
🟥Tom Tiffany (WI)
🟥William Timmons (SC)
🟥Tim Walberg (MI)

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The House just voted to remove the pesticide provisions from the farm bill that would have protected Bayer from lawsuits over cancer-causing glysophate in Roundup.

The amendment passed 280-142.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

SENATORS now cannot trade on prediction markets, per Senate rules.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023..

not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute..

they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid..

the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

[Dave Briggs @DBriggsBlade]

A truly incredible and historic day in Toledo.

Vincent Mauri — a 25-year-old former college runner from Warren, Ohio — does not have a coach or a sponsor or even a long-distance pedigree. He had never run a half marathon, let alone a full one.

On a Sunday for the ages at the Glass City Marathon, he ran one of the greatest races in American history.

Mauri did not just break the GCM record by ... more than 13 minutes, or obliterate the Ohio marathon record, too. He became the fourth American ever to break 2:06.

"Honestly, I don't even know what to think yet."
https://t.co/ateyFouKUO

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Sean Freeman @SPFsunscreen]

LET’S GO! More to come on what happens next…

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans.

After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company.

Now, the states have won.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans.

After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company.

Now, the states have won.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[Sean Freeman @SPFsunscreen]

“Why are you running for office?”

I don’t want to call my congressperson, get a staffer instead, and fill out a statement that does nothing but rot in an online file.

I want to be there to fight. Even if I don’t get there, I want to look back and know I gave it my all

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.

And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday."

https://t.co/9Hi2v9md4X

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.

And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday."

https://t.co/9Hi2v9md4X

[Max @Juicewag]

Rooster CEO D.J. Byrnes spoke to Columbus City Council today, against their handout to notoriously crooked MAGA Billionaire Jimmy Haslam