David Sable

The four most viral members of Congress are four of the least productive members of Congress. That isn't coincidence. It's the business model. x.com/DavidSable/sta…

@RitchieTorres Once again….the Truth

The ancient Greeks were often right: character is destiny. Hubris is one’s undoing. The warning signs in Graham Platner were there in plain sight. Many chose not to see them. Others extended him a presumption of grace they would never have given to their ideological enemies. This is a moment not for schadenfreude, however tempting, but for self-reflection.

@washingtonpost Key backer? More like Cheerleader and empowering agent. Good thing Bernie didn’t try and replicate the tattoo…..maybe it was….horrors…. Nazi symbolism

Breaking news: Sen. Bernie Sanders, a key backer of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign in Maine, said Platner should step aside following an accusation of sexual assault. wapo.st/3SPQSSL

@BernieSanders BERNIE….BERNIE…..truly #NOHONOR

I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine. In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.

@Mark_Penn If only……draw a line between the violent behavior he has been accused of and his Nazi tattoo….history shows us a straight and direct line. Shame on all the pandering politicians who supported him and now abandon a sinking ship like rats….

Nazi Tatoo It looks like the campaign of Graham Platner is over with Democrats throwing in the towel after another accusation of sexual assault. If only having a Nazi tattoo had been enough — as it should have been. Instead they stood behind him and welcomed his victory even as evidence of his complete lack of character mounted about his extreme views, antisemitic and misogynistic comments. And now they will scramble for a candidate to be chosen by party leaders. If only a Nazi tattoo had been enough…

Why blame World Leaders for abandoning the human rights of women in Afghanistan and elsewhere. How about the women’s groups; the LGBQT community; the so called Justice Socialists who wax eloquent about the Taliban: HAMAS; IRAN etc. #NOHONOR I’m living a dream at Columbia. Other Afghan girls face a nightmare. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

@JGreenblattADL @nytimes @Yair_Rosenberg If you haven’t read Yair…..search him out……he’s an amazing writer with deep insight….sharp wit and a great eye for detail

.@nytimes is launching its first-ever beat dedicated to Jewish American life, with the talented @Yair_Rosenberg covering it. I can think of no one better equipped with the experience and intelligence to report fairly about our community. Kol HaKavod to Yair. There's so much wrong with the New York Times coverage, glad to see a step in the right direction. jta.org/2026/06/29/uni…

@DarializaforNY 🌡️ Hottest: 106°F (July 9, 1936) 🥶 Coldest: −15°F (February 9, 1934) Not to mention the blizzard of 1888 facts are so inconvenient

It’s 100 degrees and Democrats are still whispering about climate change 🙄 Thankfully, New Yorkers elected public power champions at the state and federal level to take on the fossil fuel industry and protect us from these deadly heat waves. New Yorkers demand climate action and democratic socialists will deliver.

@JeremyBenAmi @bradlander No softballs Jeremy..

I’ve known @BradLander for more than 25 years, and I’ve always appreciated his willingness to reject false choices when it comes to Israel, Palestine and our politics. Today at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, Brad joins me on Word on the Street Live just days after his primary victory to discuss what his campaign says about the Democratic Party, the Jewish community and where we go from here. Hope you’ll join us: open.substack.com/live-stream/26…

@UN_Spokesperson @UNRWA @antonioguterres So true…..it’s hard to invade another country and slaughter, rape and kidnap. So hard..

"I applaud the tireless efforts by @UNRWA personnel to keep delivering under some of the harshest conditions imaginable. I have rarely – if ever – seen such dedication." - @antonioguterres at pledging conf for the UN agency supporting Palestine refugees. un.org/sg/en/content/…

@BernieSanders As you don’t present young…..not an issue of age….and as you have never worked or actually delivered anything……I wonder…..

As progressives, we have to lead the fight against Trump and his disastrous policies. But that's not the only struggle we face. We must also transform the Democratic Party into a party which represents working families and the young, not just wealthy campaign contributors.

Anti-War is noble. Stop HAMAS and HEZBOLLAH. IRAN. And on and on…Ethnic cleansing? Clearly you haven’t been following the Lebanese government who want to get rid of the root cause of all this ….the Terrorists you support. The only ethnic cleansing goal is yours…getting rid of Israel. #NOHONOR

Today, a record 187 Members of Congress joined me and @repdeliaramirez to vote to end U.S. support for the Israeli government's ethnic cleansing campaign in Lebanon. Our anti-war movement is growing—keep speaking out. We must keep fighting to save lives.

@antonioguterres @UNRWA And let’s not forget the inconvenient truth that a number of them participated in the Oct 7 massacre and the rest “work” for HAMAS terrorists

For generations, Palestine refugees have counted on @UNRWA for support & essential services. UNRWA is essential to preserving the humanitarian conditions necessary for a just & lasting political solution with two States – Israel & Palestine – living side by side in peace & security. I urge countries to sustain UNRWA’s vital work to address the needs of Palestine refugees, uphold international responsibility, and help a volatile region find its way to a just & peaceful future.

It’s an old story…..first they come for the Jews and when met with silence they just go down the line……. thefp.com/p/an-emboldene…

@JeremyBenAmi Thank you Jeremy. I’ve always believed you knew the difference

I’ve spent more than two decades publicly challenging AIPAC. Its politics deserve tough scrutiny. What they don’t justify is demonization. Calling AIPAC “monsters,” calling J Street a “cancer,” or branding critics of Israeli policy as antisemites all follow the same dangerous logic of replacing argument with dehumanization. My latest column is about why we have to hold that line. jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/aipac-j-stre…

Another failed noble experiment…be careful of the examples you use. People of NY pay attention…. @NYCMayor washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

@BernieSanders BERNIE….BERNIE……people in glass houses…..George Soros has spent over $100 million…BERNIE….BERNIE….#NOHONOR

AIPAC and its allies have already spent $50 million this election cycle. AI has spent $185 million. Crypto has spent $288 million. This is legalized bribery. End Citizens United and move to the public funding of elections NOW.

Dear Mr Mayor, I have no doubt that you will now begin to include all of the Countries below, including the Vatican State in your condemnations. Further I would hope, based on your passion, that you will also rank them by human rights abuses…..Anti-LGBQT (like throwing them off roofs); Anti-Women (beating them for showing hair on their heads…for example)…..Anti-Education and on and on. Please Mr Mayor…….we need you to step up and fulfill your call for justice…..or is it #NOHONOR Countries governed substantially by religious (Islamic) law Iran — A theocracy. Supreme Leader (currently Ali Khamenei, a cleric) outranks the elected president. The Guardian Council vets all laws and candidates against Islamic principles. Sharia is the basis of the legal and penal code. Saudi Arabia — An absolute monarchy with no formal constitution; the Quran and Sunnah serve as the constitution. Sharia governs law. No elected national legislature. Afghanistan — Under Taliban rule since 2021, governed by their interpretation of sharia, with no constitution in the conventional sense. Vatican City — A theocratic absolute monarchy; the Pope holds supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power. Canon law and Catholic doctrine govern. Mauritania, Sudan, Brunei — Apply sharia broadly, including as criminal law (Brunei adopted a full sharia penal code in 2014). Many other Muslim-majority states (Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, the Gulf states, Yemen) apply sharia in specific domains — usually family/personal-status law — while keeping civil systems elsewhere. Pakistan has a Federal Shariat Court. Countries with an established/official religion but not theocracies Israel (Jewish state, though governed by civil law with religious courts over personal status), England (Church of England established), Denmark, Greece, several Muslim-majority states declaring Islam the state religion, Bhutan and others (Buddhism), and a number of others. Religious restrictions on the head of state or office •United Kingdom / Commonwealth realms — The monarch must be in communion with the Church of England and cannot be Catholic. •Lebanon — Confessional system: the president must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim, the speaker a Shia Muslim. •Iran — Candidates vetted for Islamic commitment; the Supreme Leader must be a qualified cleric. •Pakistan — The president and prime minister must be Muslim. •Several states require the head of state to be Muslim (e.g., Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, the Maldives) or constitutionally Islamic. •Maldives — Citizenship itself is restricted to Muslims; a non-Muslim cannot be a citizen. Religious restrictions on citizenship The clearest case is the Maldives, where being Muslim is a constitutional requirement for citizenship. Israel’s Law of Return grants automatic immigration rights to Jews (and certain relatives), which is a religious/ethnic immigration preference rather than a bar on others becoming citizens through naturalization.

Fascinating exchange: Jon Karl lightly confronts Zohran Mamdani with Darializa Avila-Chevalier's insane positions. Mamdani says DAC won because of affordability before tripling down on the virulent anti-semitism that undergirds DSA. Karl takes two passes at getting Mamdani to condemn the coffee shop that banned Rep. Dan Goldman, allows Mamdani to skate with a non-critical critique. JON KARL: Now, you know, there's been a lot of attention on one of the candidates you supported, one who knocked off an incumbent Democrat, is Darializa Avila Chevalier. She said some very controversial things, including calling for the abolition of prisons- couldn't say whether or not somebody who had committed murder should be in prison. Called for open borders. Against all deportations, including those of violent criminals. Are those positions that the Democratic Party could win on nationally? ZOHRAN MAMDANI: I think what the Democratic Party can win on nationally is a focus on working people, and I think that what I saw from Darializa when I would walk the streets of her district was a focus on what she describes as the politics of life. She would talk about how we have to invest in babies, not bombs. She's now going to represent what is one of the poorest districts in the United States of America. And what people in that district are exhausted by is a politics that has justified the spending of tens of billions of dollars in killing civilians overseas, while working people are struggling just to do the basics. KARL: But how does that -- how does abolishing prisons or having open borders fit into that? I mean, do you see how that's -- those are ideas that a lot of your Democrats that are warning about what happened here say are toxic, most of America won't go along with. They are bad ideas. They are dangerous ideas. MAMDANI: I think what the focus of her race was, what the focus of her candidacy was, was about the struggle that working people are facing. And I think that we can have disagreements on policy positions. What we have to agree on is what are we fighting for, and who are we fighting for? She showed that in her race, and I think that many people will come to appreciate that in her leadership to come. KARL: So we can disagree on something as basic as whether or not there should be prisons? MAMDANI: There -- KARL: That's not your position? MAMDANI: There are prisons. KARL: Yes. MAMDANI: And what we're also showing in this city is that safety is not something that's up for debate. It’s something that we're actually delivering on. And I'm proud to be the mayor of a city that currently has the lowest recorded number of murders and shootings in recorded history in New York City. KARL: So there was also a take -- it's not just Democrats. You probably heard what President Trump had to say about you and about the candidates you supported. And he warned that if socialists win -- and he calls you communists but -- you will start living in squalor, there'll be no food, no housing, no military, no law and order. There'll be nothing, and he had a few other choice words. By the way, he also said he still likes you. (LAUGHTER) KARL: But what do you make of what he -- I mean, the Democrat -- Republicans are going to make you the poster child for the Democratic Party. MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last six months, what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible. We've delivered free childcare for two-year-olds for the first time in New York City history. We've delivered tens of millions of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of by bad landlords. We've delivered 165,000 potholes being paved. And we've done all of these things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our city's history. That's what it looks like to have Democratic socialism. And what you're seeing is that New Yorkers experienced this for six months and made the decision that they wanted to see more of it on the national stage as well. KARL: Can a Democratic socialist get elected president? MAMDANI: I think a Democratic socialist can get elected anywhere across this country for any position. What I think we need to bring is a focus on working people. KARL: And that's the direction that the party should go in, in terms of selecting a candidate for 2028? MAMDANI: I think the direction that the party should go in is how best to fight for working people. I think we need to have a platform and a vision that doesn't sound as if it was cooked up by consultants, but instead one that you would say in response to someone who's asking, why can't I afford my rent, why can't I afford my groceries, why can't I afford my childcare? We need to make clear who we stand for, how we're going to stand for them, and that we're actually willing to fight for them when the going gets tough. KARL: Obviously, Israel was a big issue in these races. Not the only issue, but a big issue. Is there room in the Democratic Party for candidates, officials who support Israel, not just support Israel, but support military aid for Israel? This was a huge issue for you. MAMDANI: Well, I think what we've seen is that the time for us, as elected officials, to pronounce what the party should be is one that should come to an end, and we should let Democratic voters themselves take the lead. We've seen on Tuesday evening, we saw Democrats turn out in districts across the city to make clear that they were tired of tens of billions of dollars being spent in our taxpayer dollars to violate international law, to kill thousands of civilians. And you and I know that right now, the way that Palestine is described is as if there is a ceasefire. That's the language that's typically used. KARL: Yes. MAMDANI: More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed in that ceasefire. And what New Yorkers want to see is a politics of conscience, a politics of clarity, a politics of conviction. And to follow international law, to believe in the humanity of all people, it shouldn't be a journey too far. And I think that our party needs to hear what Democrats are telling them. KARL: Democratic Socialists of America now says they no longer favor a two-state solution. Is that the way you see it as well, the idea of two states, Palestinian and Jewish states, side by side, living in peace? MAMDANI: The way I see it is, equal rights for all people. And I think that that's the truth for Israel. It's the truth for any country in the world. And frankly, as we're coming up close to the 250th anniversary of our nation, one of the things that makes me proudest to be an American is the belief that equal rights are at the bedrock of our notion of what it means to be an American. KARL: And the idea of a Jewish state, Israel as a Jewish state, that's in the charter, that's the way it is now. Do you support that? MAMDANI: I've said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights. I believe that any state that -- KARL: But as a Jewish state is the question. MAMDANI: I think any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can't tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is. KARL: How big a problem -- you've said it's rising -- is anti-Semitism in this city? MAMDANI: We've seen anti-Semitism rise in this city. We've seen the fact that Jewish New Yorkers comprise a minority of our city's population, and yet continue to constitute a majority of the hate crimes that have been purveyed in this city. And that's something that's unacceptable. It's something that we will never come to see as if it is a part of life. It's something that has to be fought and rooted out of every one of the five boroughs. KARL: What did you think when Dan Goldman -- that coffee shop in Brooklyn said that they didn't -- they wouldn't serve him because of his support for Israel. Do you have a problem with – I mean, the idea of, you know, of an establishment like that saying they're not going to serve somebody if they support Israel? MAMDANI: I've said that I have political disagreements with Congressmember Goldman. I do believe that that's a response that goes beyond that. KARL: So, that's not the right kind of thing? MAMDANI: No, I think -- I think it's much better to keep that critique in the way that we’ve done it.

@UNGeneva And yet you support Regimes and Terrorist groups who routinely throw Gays off of rooftops as a best case scenario. #NOHONOR

Everyone deserves all human rights and freedoms. This includes the fundamental right to live without: 🌈 violence 🌈persecution 🌈discrimination 🌈harassment 🌈stigma #NoToHate #PrideMonth

This one is rich. In Gaza they throw Gay people off of rooftops. In Iran they hang them and these are both best case scenarios…Sorry Scott..to Anti-Semite’s a Jew is a Jew share.google/Ebi6RMtlfD4onK…

One of the great contradictions of our times……the purposeful seeking advocates searching for brands that fit their world view somehow pass over Uber…..could it possibly be that to that elite…..convenience beats purpose…..Id posit almost every time? Uber Enacts Stricter Background Checks for Drivers nytimes.com/2026/06/26/bus… via @NYTimes