Jim Nickas

Directors Guild of America: Sweet Magnolias, Manifest, Madam Secretary, Mysteries of Laura, Elementary, Boardwalk Empire, The Big C, Ugly Betty, Third Watch...

[Eyewitness News @ABC7NY]

.@SCPDHq: investigating suspicious package discovered outside of Stony Brook University Hospital at 9:08 pm. Detectives are investigating if the device is dangerous. As a precautionary measure, two floors of the hospital have been evacuated. No injuries at this time.

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

@_Julio_Caesar I've heard shooter or suspicious package...any confirmation yet?

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

@steffdaz @APStylebook this is too stressful

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

@SamanthaAugeri @News12LI Share that positive news!

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

@KatiePavlich Seems like she hates negligence

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

THIS IS RICH: The big cruise lines incorporated offshore (@CarnivalCruise in Panama, @RoyalCaribbean in Liberia, @CruiseNorwegian in Bermuda), allowing them to avoid US taxes.

But now they're worried that their offshore registrations will prevent them from getting US stimulus $.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump: "Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could happen." Again, many people thought a thing like this could happen, including the Trump administration, which conducted a simulation last year underscoring how underprepared the government was. https://t.co/8zq8vxCu4z

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

@JakeLahut Permanently??

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"Our people want to go back to work. I'm hearing it loud and clear from everybody ... they have to go back to work" -- Trump (polling released yesterday actually showed 74 percent of voters favor more stringent social distancing)

[Sen. Mike Gianaris @SenGianaris]

Rent is due in one week and a lot of people who lost jobs because of #COVID19 are unsure how they'll pay

Let me know where you stand and whether we should #CancelRent

➡️ https://t.co/b16KeVlsY1

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this ad. https://t.co/BG5NHKJBzd

[Emily Ngo @emilyngo]

This is Tracy, a grade-school friend who’s an RN. In addition to working very long shifts and parenting two kids, she’s had to resort to MAKING HER OWN MASKS AND PPE in this shortage.

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

@steffdaz This is why you were banished to California (AKA New York - West)

[Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith]

Me, having coffee as I think about my day:

[Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt]

Wildcat strikes are gathering steam across the nation as workers protest their employers' failure to take adequate safety precautions in face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sanitation workers in Pittsburgh walk out & so do poultry workers in Georgia
https://t.co/183UjzmYFs
@MikeElk

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

The senators' fear, the source says, is that some workers would see the enhanced unemployment benefits as an incentive to leave their jobs. But proponents say that the enhanced benefits are only temporary -- and do not outweigh the significant benefits people get by holding a job

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

@mtsw @chrislhayes Chaos maker during a pandemic

[Jim Nickas @JimNickas]

People are not the problem. People need help. 100% of the money going to people will then go directly into the economy (Good for people = good for economy).

Some in congress worry that they won't get to pick who wins and who doesn't.

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

Sen Lindsey Graham R-SC: "This bill pays you more not to work than if you were working"

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Shameful

[Rep. Dan Kildee @RepDanKildee]

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