https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1263866923231535105
Aaron Rupar ✔@atrupar

It's like a deleted scene from Idiocracy

Jeff Mason ✔@jeffmason1

Riding on the White House grounds.

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12:18 PM - May 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/MaryMurrayNBC/status/1263486314244190210
Mary Murray ✔@MaryMurrayNBC

Story of the day! A mayor in Peru out drinking w buddies gets caught by the cops for violating #coronavirus curfew. Mayor jumps into a casket and pretends he‘s dead to avoid arrest. Not sure where they were partying but there was a handy casket nearby.

https://elcomercio.pe/peru/huancavelica-alcalde-de-tantara-se-hizo-el-muerto-en-ataud-para-no-ser-detenido-video-nnpp-noticia/ …
Huancavelica: alcalde de Tantará se hizo el muerto en ataúd para no ser detenido | VIDEO
Jaime Urbina Torres fue intervenido, junto con otras personas, cuando incumplía el toque de queda y las normas sanitarias para enfrentar el COVID-19. El alcalde habría estado ebrio.

11:06 AM - May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1263474280806875141
Brian Schatz ✔@brianschatz

A little context, from the inside. 1) Mcconnell says he doesn't feel a sense of urgency to do COVID bills, w 90 thousand dead and millions out of work. 2) House passed bill is at Senate Desk for action. 3) All we do is unqualified judges selected by dark money groups.

Jake Sherman ✔@JakeSherman

MCCONNELL, on the Senate floor, calls the House its “absentee neighbors across the rotunda.”

He says the House is on paid leave and he’s wondering if senators should go “collect their newspaper and water the plants."

10:18 AM - May 21, 2020

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Jake Sherman ✔@JakeSherman

SCHUMER: “For leader McConnell to say thah the senate is working and the house is derilict is the opposite of what happened.”

10:27 AM - May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1263460103187058695
The Independent ✔@Independent

Robot dog herds sheep and carries out other farming tasks

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9:22 AM - May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1263458781113049093
Zeke Miller ✔@ZekeJMiller

BOSTON (AP) — Court papers show Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, will plead guilty in college admissions bribery case.

9:17 AM - May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1263459768917622785
Yashar Ali 🐘 ✔@yashar

Breaking: Lori Laughlin and Mossimo Giannulli have agreed to plead guilty

Subject to court approval...

Lori

2 months prison
$150k fine
2 years sup release
100 hours community service

Mossimo

5 months prison
250k fine
2 years sup release
250 hours community service

9:20 AM - May 21, 2020

https://apnews.com/aa3cced1b5c5c40a4bc09db805393d80


FILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo, workers leave the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind. Federal recommendations meant to keep meatpacking workers safe as they return to plants that were shuttered by the coronavirus have little enforcement muscle behind them, fueling anxiety that working conditions could put employees' lives at risk. Major meatpackers JBS, Smithfield and Tyson have said worker safety is their highest priority. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

By AMY FORLITI

today

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal recommendations meant to keep meatpacking workers safe as they return to plants that were shuttered by the coronavirus have little enforcement muscle behind them, fueling anxiety that working conditions could put employees’ lives at risk.

Extensive guidance issued last month by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that meatpacking companies erect physical barriers, enforce social distancing and install more hand-sanitizing stations, among other steps. But the guidance is not mandatory.

“It’s like, ‘Here’s what we’d like you to do. But if you don’t want to do it, you don’t have to,’” said Mark Lauritsen, international vice president and director of the food processing and meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

The pandemic is “the most massive workers’ safety crisis in many decades, and OSHA is in the closet. OSHA is hiding,” said David Michaels, an epidemiologist who was the agency’s assistant secretary of labor under President Barack Obama. Michaels called on OSHA to make the guidelines mandatory and enforceable, which would include the threat of fines.

OSHA’s general guidance plainly says the recommendations are advisory and “not a standard or regulation,” and they create “no new legal obligations.”

But the guidance also says employers must follow a law known as the general duty clause, which requires companies to provide a workplace free of recognized hazards. Critics say that rule is unlikely to be enforced, especially after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April aimed at keeping meat plants open.

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https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1263441180106334208
Geoff Bennett ✔@GeoffRBennett

INBOX: Pelosi and Schumer "today sent a letter to President Trump requesting his administration prepare to fly flags at half staff on all public buildings in the country on the heartbreaking day America's COVID-19 death toll reaches 100,000 lives."

8:07 AM - May 21, 2020