Jason Rantz on Seattle Red

NEW: Seattle Restaurant Week lets you filter out spots by race, gender identity. It’s wrong. seattlered.com/seattle-red/ja…

More mid-week reading. Pay attention to the upcoming races for WA State Supreme Court justices. Five of the nine seats of that Court will be up for election on this November's general election ballot. Excerpt: "The people of Washington need State Supreme Court judges who support and defend the Washington State Constitution—as it is written. Not as they believe it should have been written. Frankly, Washington needs judges who’ve read the State Constitution. For too long, the State Supreme Court has been stacked with interim appointees more faithful to partisan politics than constitutional law." seattlered.com/seattle-red/op…

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NEW: Seattle Restaurant Week lets you filter out spots by race, gender identity. It’s wrong. seattlered.com/seattle-red/ja…

Drug markets, crime will greet World Cup fans, Seattle police union chief warns seattlered.com/crime/spog-pre…

Stunningly bad faith framing — but should be expected from left-wing media.

Starbucks chooses business-friendly Tennessee for $100 million corporate expansion seattlered.com/economy/starbu…

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CNN DEMOCRAT: “We have a wannabe dictator as president of the United States.” JASON RANTZ: “To immediately go to this lazy talking point… screaming about a dictator-in-chief…” “It is not a serious conversation. If you say that you’re serious… talk about the policy.”

Bipartisanship on the treadmill: Michael Baumgartner dishes on the ‘old school’ House gym seattlered.com/culture/baumga…

@dianavs44 @CurtisHouck How is it possible that you’re commenting on something you didn’t even watch?

@CurtisHouck @jasonrantz How is possible that you all have forgotten that Texas pushed the first domino? There would have been no election today if it wasn’t for them. Congrats guys.

.@JasonRantz on the Virginia Democrats' gerrymander: "Look, this just creates a domino effect. I think ultimately what this creates is red states and blue states, And we're getting rid of purple states. And I don't like that As a general rule for democracy. I think it leads to just out of control power grabs and can ruin communities. I think that's true when you've got one-party rule anywhere. So, I'm not a big fan of this, but as I've pointed out before, this current battle was started in Texas. Trump did not start this battle, though, of redistricting in general. There's been no conversation specifically about Illinois, about Maryland, which have been redrawn to unrecognizable maps. It is unnatural, and there's going to be a push."

WATCH: @JasonRantz and @DrLaurenAWright blast Tennessee Democrat Justin Pearson after Pearson REFUSES to condemn the Iranian regime for its decades of atrocities, including murdering tens of thousands of its own citizens this year alone

.@JasonRantz to Tennesee Democrat congressional candidate Justin Pearson on "wannabe dictator" Trump putting American lives in danger for a fantasy... "This is a ridiculous position. That is an unserious talking point. So, a dictator -- look, such a tiresome line -- I think it's fair and reasonable -- and I've said this before, like, to debate the actual issues here and whether or not we think that this was the right move, but to immediately go to this lazy talking point that is used by the left all the time, just screaming about a dictator in chief, it's just -- it's not a serious conversation. If you say that you're serious about the issues that people are facing, talk about the policies instead of going to insidious attacks." Abby Phillip wholheartedly agrees with Pearson.

.@JasonRantz to CNN's Abby Phillip on the latest Iran negotiations.... "Well, I think that [the U.S. was] obviously hopeful. And, you know, to Geraldo's point, we don't actually know what's going on behind the scenes. I think it's fair to say that part of this is because [Iranians] are, in fact, fractured, and tat, of course, makes complete and total sense given the situation on the ground, that we would doubt that there is fractures within their leadership to the extent that it exists, is kind of naive to me. I think, you know, you want to make sure that you're doing a lasting peace. Yesterday, you had brought up, I think it was a Reuters piece that suggested that international leaders were kind of worried about whether or not the President was going to leave for a headline and just get something done. The shows, again, quite the opposite, that he's being thoughtful and not wanting to just grab a headline and is, in fact, willing to take on a political cost so that we can get to a point where we have a lasting peace."

WTH, WSF?! This drives me nuts, if they can get things running for futbol fans, they can do it for taxpayers footing the bill. mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/j…

REMINDER: The Southern Poverty Law Center has been a Democrat front group used to smear people as racists who don’t toe the party line. These are serious criminal charges:

Maria Cantwell’s voter fraud post on X blows up in her face as King County ballots turn up by a dumpster: Jason Rantz seattlered.com/politics/cantw…

New documents reveal the ulterior motive behind the ‘millionaire’s tax’ seattlered.com/taxes/new-docu…

Snohomish teacher quits after nude images pop up during class PowerPoint — and the district is still hiding the details: Jason Rantz seattlered.com/education/glac…