SO MY FRIEND’S SISTER WHO SAT ON THE WASHING MACHINE A LOT WAS AHEAD OF A TREND? Vibration plates are trendy. But do they actually work?

Should anyone be surprised? JustTheNews details the weaponization of the SEC in the Biden era to go after Trump and his supporters, particularly Elon Musk:

“Republicans pointed to former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s hiring of former Democratic operatives to staff the agency, and his former work as CFO for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, where, according to congressional testimony, he had final approval authority for the campaign’s payments for the discredited Steele Dossier, as evidence the agency was biased against Republicans. Gensler is a former investment banker who served as the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2021 to 2025”
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“You seem to have a very troubling pattern of hiring, at an impartial regulatory agency, a lot of people who seem to have a vendetta against the former president, and I fear, and I worry that that has implicated itself and affected the policy of the SEC,” then-Sen. J.D. Vance told Gensler at a Senate hearing in 2023.”

Although many saw it happening in real time and called it out (thanks, VP Vance) it never got mainstream media traction. I wonder why that is? 

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Your median professor sits so far left that AOC, Sanders, and Warren would count as moderates in any faculty lounge.

Faculty from 55 elite universities form one towering blue spike of ideology far out on the left, density exploding past 6, with virtually nothing on the… pic.twitter.com/bHS2fgGYS0

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) July 11, 2026

Tweet concludes, “Faculty from 55 elite universities form one towering blue spike of ideology far out on the left, density exploding past 6, with virtually nothing on the conservative side. This was built through decades of selective hiring, social enforcement, and the systematic purge of dissent. And because they credential the people who run media, law, government, and tech, the monoculture leaks into every elite institution downstream.”

RIP: Randolph Mantooth, Firefighter-Paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency!, Dies at 80.

Mantooth was just getting started as a contract player at Universal when he was hired in 1971 to play Gage opposite Kevin Tighe as his partner, Roy DeSoto, on Emergency!, created by Dragnet legend Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader.

When he was told he was going to play a paramedic, the first thing Mantooth said was, “What the hell is a paramedic? At that time, there were only [a handful] in all of California,” he told Amy Harrington in a 2013 interview for the TV Academy Foundation website The Interviews.

He said he initially didn’t want to do it because it meant he would have to get a haircut.

Gage and the more buttoned-down DeSoto worked out the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Station 51, interacting often with Rampart General Hospital personnel Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller), nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London) and Dr. Joe Early (Bobby Troup, London’s real-life husband).

Emergency! aired for six seasons, from January 1972 through May 1977, then tacked on seven telefilms over the next couple of years. There even was a Saturday morning animated series in 1973-74.

When the show premiered, there were 12 paramedic units in all of North America. In the next three years, 46 states enacted laws that allowed paramedics to practice emergency medicine. Within 10 years, more than half of all Americans were within 10 minutes of a paramedic rescue or ambulance unit.

As Deadline notes in their obit for Mantooth, “Running for five seasons into September 1977, the hourlong drama with comic elements never was a ratings hit, only denting the year-end primetime Top 30 once in the three-network universe. But it was solid counterprogramming [for NBC] against its 8 p.m. Saturday competition of CBS’ All in the Family and in its final two seasons, Norman Lear classic spinoff The Jeffersons.”

RIP Johnny Gage.

Watched the entire series a few years ago. Except for the last season, it holds up beautifully. L.A.really was a paradise back then.

Ratings were down, so the final season (6) tried comic relief and antics. Whole season is covered in flop sweat. But I very… pic.twitter.com/ypru5ngT1i

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) July 11, 2026

Tweet concludes, “I very much recommend 1-5. The doctors were supposedly the stars of the show. Johnny and Roy stole it. They are who we remember and want to watch.”

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Goodbye, Nazi Edition.

KEEP YOUR DISHWASHER CLEAN: Affresh Dishwasher Cleaner. #CommissionEarned We use this and it works well!

MAKE THEM PAY: Seven years later, a campus cancel culture incident heads to trial.

I KNOW YOU LAY AWAKE ALL NIGHT WAITING FOR SATURDAY MEMES!  Your wait is over. Rejoice:  Bring Out Your Memes.

ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN: Cuba Falling: Code Pink and Other Commies Plan to Riot in the U.S. to Support the Regime.

BE PREPARED: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE CIVILITY AND CRITICAL THINKING: College campuses are ground zero for ‘the gospel of envy.’

CHANGE? Europe: Increasing public support for remigration.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: A Political Money Grab so Audacious It Comes With Its Own Standing Ovation.

RULE OF LAW: The Anti-Gun Left’s Solution to Consistent SCOTUS Losses: Pack the Court.

SEDITION:

Because we've developed this really bad habit of waving this kind of thing off as 'crazy college kids' just doing the campus radical thing for a few years before becoming adults.

It's a very typical boomer attitude because so many boomers experienced it themselves. They marched…

— Hon. Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) July 9, 2026

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Newsom Lawyers Up as Missing Tax Returns Fuel More Questions About Federal Probe.

IMAGINE NEW YORK AS THE BRITISH EMPIRE’S CAPITAL: That might have become a reality had there been more common sense and foresight among the ministers in King George III’s cabinet in the decade leading up to 1776, according to Brit historian Andrew Roberts

LIMITED TIME DEAL: DREO Portable Air Conditioner 515S, 12000 BTU ASHRAE. #CommissionEarned

#WAR:

Anthropic is giving left wing NGO’s free access to its tools to target conservatives and MAGA. This company is completely out of control and is now waging war against every Trump voter. pic.twitter.com/NzRnvMV5Sg

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 9, 2026

“ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST DRAG ON TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS FOR THE PAST HALF-CENTURY: ‘Reckless’ space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism.

OPEN THREAD: Zombie see, and zombie do.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA’s lunar outpost?

WHAT’S NEW IS THAT THIS IS A COMMERCIAL ENDEAVOR: A US Underwater Human Habitat Is Now Operational. Take a Look Inside. “Vanguard is a pilot for their much more ambitious project, Sentinel, which the company claims will enable ‘both short-term and semi-permanent deployments anywhere on the continental shelf’ by 2027.”

PROGRESS: Hip Replacements Are Lasting Far Longer Than Doctors Once Thought.

GRILL TO PERFECTION: MEATER Plus: Smart Bluetooth Wireless Meat Thermometer Digital. #CommissionEarned