Daniel Bates

Freelance journalist, regular contributor to the Daily Mail and others. Wrote a lot about the Jeffrey Epstein case

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

When your story gets retweeted by the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump #separatingfamilies @_kareruiz

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

Yikes

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“Vance had also floated to colleagues an extraordinary P.R. gambit — that the White House enlist Tucker Carlson to interview Epstein’s longtime girlfriend and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, in prison” https://t.co/clhBAvVgFr

[maggie gao @maggiexgao]

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- 43% had immediately hazardous violations
- 39% had confirmed bedbugs
- 34% had mold complaints

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- rent stabilization status
- bedbug, pest, and mold reports
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- data aggregated by management company
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check your building before you sign.

https://t.co/Mb4SBmLfJH

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@Peston But he wasn't bothered about under-13s using Instagram, shocking privacy breaches or social media stoking civil unrest

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

Scam

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

The drinks prices in the stadium at the England vs. New Zealand match.

💵 $18 for a beer.
💵 $7.50 for a water.

Robbery.

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@JayShams Just feels like 'doggie' to me

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

Best. Advert. For. Airtags. Ever

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.

Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.

https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@TVolscho Hey man, we're all just a bunch of rebels being squished by a trash compactor

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

When you've lost Bryce....

[Kairos.MP5 @KAIROSMMA2]

OH MY GOODNESS. I never thought I would ever say this . BRYCE MITCHELL IS FUCKING SPITTING

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@BobbyAllyn If he threatened to put a gun in your face, he'd probably pull out a banana

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@TVietor08 This story - originating from RadarOnline - feels like the classic definition of a 'flier', a British journalism term for something that probably isn't true

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

Disgrace

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

FIFA code of conduct a month ago;

“For avoidance of doubt, empty, transparent, reusable plastic bottles, up to [1 liter in] capacity, may be brought into the Stadium.”

Now policy says:

“For avoidance of doubt, reusable water bottles may not be brought into the stadium.”

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@svershbow Hurrah to that, from a fellow freelancer.....he says wasting time on X!

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@ischafer Standby list: Lee, S. Cha, T. Sti, B. Joe, F.

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@florianederer Christ yeah! This seems like something the NY / NJ AGs office should look at. Seems shady AF

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@JacobEdwardInc My kid came in and woke me up last night so I guess that fucked my perfect sleep score

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

@J_fassler Or Michael Keaton. Ooooooh

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

What will last longer? Nick Bilton or a lettuce?

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

One of many eye-popping exchanges between Scott Pelley and Nick Bilton in this morning’s meeting:

[Daniel Bates @danielgbates]

The people that live in the buildings in the background need to hang a sign from one side of the street to the next saying: 'Get a life'

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

“From a governance standpoint, we seem to be treated like any other neighborhood — like Cobble Hill or Boerum Hill — and we are actually more like Times Square,” said Jamel Talbi, a 15-year Dumbo resident and condo-board president. “We are at our wits’ end.” Talbi should know; he lives on the cobblestoned stretch of Washington Street leading from the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway to the waterfront that is said to be the most Instagrammed location on the planet.

Talbi launched an 11-page online petition, directed at elected officials and signed by nearly 400 Dumbo residents, which includes a list of demands one might expect from folks living in a neighborhood so dense with tourists that it’s sometimes hard to push a stroller down the sidewalk: restrictions on street vendors and tour buses, for instance, and a crowd-management plan.

While the petition is just the latest in an ongoing crusade to tame the streets, tension in the neighborhood is building up, and for good reason. “People are anxious because there is a World Cup village under the Brooklyn Bridge this summer, the 250th anniversary of our independence, the Macy’s fireworks, and the tall ships coming,” said Lincoln Restler, the city councilperson representing the area. “They look ahead to June and July and say, ‘Holy shit! This is going to get a lot worse!’”

Some residents are now taking cues from global anti-tourism tactics — such as Amsterdam’s “Stay Away” campaign discouraging British tourists from traveling to the city to party and Seoul’s visiting hours for Bukchon Hanok Village — and suggesting measures far beyond the usual.

Read Anne Kadet’s report on the Dumbo residents losing their patience against tourists — and resorting to guerrilla tactics: https://t.co/PTvTe3eIZa