HERE WE GO AGAIN: Democrats Charge Forward With Shutdown Threat Over ICE Funding. “Republican Sens. Ted Budd of North Carolina, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, Ashley Moody and Rick Scott of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama also opposed advancing the funding package. The conservative group of lawmakers contains several leading fiscal hawks and opponents of abortion. Budd told reporters he voted “no” over concerns about ‘abortion funding’ in the package.”
January 30, 2026
THE BEATLES’ FINAL LIVE PERFORMANCE WAS CUT SHORT BY POLICE 57 YEARS AGO TODAY:
Even after their instruments were set up on the roof of Apple Corps, Lennon, McCartney, Starr, and Harrison almost didn’t go through with it.
The director [Michael Lindsay-Hogg] explained, “We planned to do it about 12:30 to get the lunchtime crowds. They didn’t agree to do it as a group until about 20 to 1:00. Paul wanted to do it, and George didn’t. Ringo would go either way. Then John said, ‘Oh [f***], let’s do it,’ and they went up and did it.”
Police were called after noise complaints came in from neighboring buildings surrounding the rooftop and clogged streets from the thousands who stopped to listen. Police officer Ray Dagg and other officers were forced to end what would turn out to be the last live performance by the world’s most famous band.
“We’ve had 30 complaints at West End Central in minutes,” former London Metropolitan Police officer Dagg said in a video clip. “Turn the PA off, and we’ll see what happens.”
Fifty years after the incident, in 2019, Dagg told The Times of London the event was “just work, and it’s blown up into all this. It’s ridiculous, I just don’t understand it.”
He continued, “At that time, I didn’t know that they would never play together again. At least there’s something on a film somewhere that will forever show that PC Ray Dagg shut down the Beatles.”
Additionally, Dagg told CTV that reflecting on the moment, he didn’t know if he actually would have arrested The Beatles. “The problem with it is that for the offenses they were committing, there was no power of arrest on private property. It has to be on public property.”
“So it would have meant arresting them on private property,” Dagg said. “Taking them outside, and then I’d have gotten into a lot of trouble if I turned up at the station with The Beatles in tow, wrongfully arrested.”
Would have been a great ending to the movie, though!
Earlier, from your humble narrator:
● The Beatles get Back in Peter Jackson’s New Three-Part Documentary.
● The Beatles’ get Back: The Long and Grinding Road.
● I Question the Premise: The Beatles: Get Back shows that deepfake tech isn’t always evil.
OH THANK GOD, I WAS AFRAID IT WAS RURAL KING: Tractor Supply rival chain shutting all locations soon.
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL A LEFTY ANYTHING THEY DON’T WANT TO KNOW:
This is a very important point.
Yes, the Trump administration brought the charges, but a federal grand jury in a BLUE STATE (Minnesota) indicted him.
He must be held accountable. You cannot lead mobs into churches & attempt to intimidate Christians while they are worshipping! https://t.co/5vsYOcuC6B
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) January 30, 2026
WELL, GOOD: Paul introduces legislation to halt welfare funding for non-citizens.
Of course, if the Dems don’t kill it, I suspect the Republicans will let it die on the vine.
A SHRINKING LEGACY: Obamacare enrollment drops to about 23 million people for 2026.
IT’S EASIER TO SELL LIFESTYLE THAN GENETICS, THOUGH: Genetics play a larger part in lifespan than previously thought.
THE WORST OF DON LEMON (Post-Arrest Edition):
On Friday, it was reported that Don Lemon was arrested for his part in the invasion of a St. Paul, MN church. The notoriously leftist Lemon (he’s a multiple winner of MRC’s Worst Quote of the Year) was so biased that he actually got fired from CNN.
For a look at the worst of Lemon’s time at CNN see here.
Since Lemon was canned from his CNN show, he has continued his horrible ways as podcaster.
The following are just some of the worst outbursts from his post-CNN career:
And from Jim Treacher: Don Lemon Arrested for Breaking the Law.
The only people whose First Amendment rights have been infringed here are the congregants at the church Don Lemon invaded. He was part of the planning, he trespassed and refused to leave, and he called those churchgoers “white supremacists.” To make matters worse, he’s even profiting from his crimes. And we know everything he did because he was stupid enough to record it the whole time.
Don Lemon’s desperation for relevance is not a pass to break the law. A microphone is not a shield against the consequences of his actions.
If you disagree, why don’t you give us your home address so we can do the same to you?
No? Well, why do you hate journalism?
If only Mohamed Atta had brought his smart phone:
According to the retarded new legal theories of Democrat journos, if the 9/11 terrorists had just livestreamed their flights, the whole thing would’ve been kosher. https://t.co/b4DOkhWDNZ
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 30, 2026
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Finally, a Little Justice for Victims of Seattle’s ‘Summer of Love.’ “This week, we see a little justice in Seattle, insanity from Oregon, and welcomed scrutiny in California.”
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WELL, GOOD: Canadians Tell Their Authoritarian Government Where They Can Put Their Gun Confiscation Scheme.
Canadian media is reporting that half of all the provinces, plus the Northwest Territory and Yukon governments are telling Ottawa the country’s massive gun “buyback” scheme is a non-starter, and they will not participate.
“This is a remarkable—and welcome—wake-up call to Canada’s liberal national government, and it is long overdue,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, one of the largest U.S. gun rights organizations. “Gun control in Canada has crossed the line when it pushes a massive ‘buyback,’ which is really nothing more than compensated confiscation. What the governments in those provinces, and the territories are saying on behalf of the citizens is that this massive gun control scheme is a non-starter.”
According to published reports, the Newfoundland and Labrador government is the latest to reject the gun “buyback” proposal, for which Canada’s federal government has reportedly allocated $250 million to compensate gun owners for the firearms they would be required to surrender because they were banned by the stroke of a pen.
Canadians might need a lot more guns before Mark Carney and the Liberals are done with them.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Women do find men with big penises more attractive, academic study confirms.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
🚨🚨 BREAKING : Quick – take a look at the front page of StopICE dot net 🚨🚨
For context, StopICE is the biggest ICE doxxing website out there.
Follow @astrarce and @bitchuneedsoap . pic.twitter.com/ySw3KGEWth
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 30, 2026
VENEZUELA MAY NOT BE THE LAST: Cuba’s Bad Day Just Got a Whole Lot Worse.
TRUE:
Democrats have redefined “racism” (and, more generally, “hate”) to mean, “Any belief or opinion which might lead someone to vote Republican.”
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 30, 2026
WHO COULD IMAGINE SOMETHING SHADY IN MINNESOTA? Is There a Shady Deal Behind Klobuchar’s Gubernatorial Bid?
ED MORRISSEY: Don Lemon Arrested On Federal Charges.
Lemon has hired Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell to represent him…Lowell is a very accomplished attorney, and if I were in this kind of trouble, I’d be lucky to have him (and very, very broke in the end). However, this defense is a loser for several reasons, the first of which is that Lemon wasn’t the only party to this incident that had First Amendment rights at stake. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of religious expression, the core of which is the right to worship in one’s own church in peace. Even people claiming to be journalists can’t interrupt worship services and demand impromptu “interviews” with the minister or celebrant, especially inside the church on private property. Lemon filmed himself preparing with the instigators outside before invading the church, and his “interview” consisted of demanding answers to the instigators’ claims and demands.
Next up, the criminal statutes involved do not have “journalist” exceptions. Neither the FACE Act nor the Ku Klux Klan act allow for disruption of church services for the purpose of “journalism.” Nate the Lawyer covered both of these statutes in the video below shortly after the crime occurred, mainly focusing on the Klan Act. Nate’s conclusion is that Lowell has his work cut out for him.
But he was just speaking truth to power…:
Imagine thinking that storming a church, harassing the pastor and congregants, and the refusing to leave immediately when asked is holding “those in power to account.”
Journalism is the most delusional sector in existence. https://t.co/Jn8GF3TwAr
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 30, 2026
Related: I had no idea the iPhone contained a virtual “Get Out of Jail Free” card within it:
The current position of the Democratic Party is that as long as you are holding a cell phone or a camera you can literally commit any crime you want and face no consequences.
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 30, 2026
TO BE FAIR, FAVREAU ISN’T JUST A HACK, HE’S A HAM-FISTED HACK WHO HELPED CREATE THE CURRENT MESS:
Kamala Harris literally arrested a legitimate journalist because she didn't like he had exposed Planned Parenthood for the barbaric and illegal practice of selling aborted baby parts.
You voted for her anyway. Don't pretend you care about this. https://t.co/FNWvtxA2wE
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 30, 2026
More:
Left-wingers have gotten really used to being able to jail their opponents while threatening the jailing of more of their opponents as a way to avoid liability for crimes they commit.
Those days are over. Whatever deference once existed, they blew it up. pic.twitter.com/scrM71pPBK
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 30, 2026
We warned the Left for 15 years that they wouldn’t like it when the Right started playing by their new rules, but they didn’t listen.
WHERE’S THE OFF SWITCH? AI’s HAL 9000 Problem, and What It Portends For the Future.
We are repeatedly told that large language models (LLM) will soon “plateau.” Likewise, we were repeatedly warned that “Moore’s Law,” the observation that microchip transistors double approximately every two years, was dying. But both claims miss the point.
Even as raw transistor scaling has dramatically slowed, real computing power has accelerated through architectural specialization, algorithmic efficiency, massive parallelization, and domain-specific hardware. AI supercomputer performance is currently doubling every 9 months, fueled both by increasing the number of AI chips and improving chip efficiency. A new chip from NVIDIA apparently will compress that, at least temporarily, to six or seven months.
Likewise, we will find a way around the LLM plateau. When one scaling regime saturates, engineers invent another. And even at a 9-month doubling, in 10 years the computers will crunch 10,000 times faster and a million times faster in just 15 years. Yet, it was beating us at GO a decade ago.
The implication is simple: AI won’t level off; it will change gears.
And once it changes enough gears, it stops being a tool and becomes a system, widely referred to as “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI.
That matters, because systems do not “obey.” They optimize.
I’m still dubious about AGI, but smarter people like Michael Fumento here insist it’s just a matter of time.
So here’s to hoping we don’t get “optimized.”
