Totally normal weather alert for Dec. 28!

Just when Mikaela Shiffrin lulls you by her brilliance, she wins in a way that reminds you how unbelievably good she really is.

This has to be one of Mikaela Shiffrin’s most impressive wins yet. Trailing by 0.54 seconds after first run, three skiers in front of her and crappy, crappy conditions. And yet she does what she always does: Wins. She’s now a perfect 5-for-5 to start the season.

Hot damn! Shiffrin crushes her second run and has lead of almost a second - 0.93 - with three skiers left

Oh man. Paula Moltzan straddles a gate and is out in second run. Tough result, especially since she was gutting through today after hurting her back in crash yesterday.

And one skier into the second run, there’s another DNF!

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

*Out of 79 skiers

"In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime."

Mikaela Shiffrin in fourth after first run, Paula Moltzan is seventh. They're the only two Americans to make the second run, with Nina O'Brien just missing the flip -- finished 0.03 seconds out of 30th.

First run is finished and ooooof. 39 DNFs out of 77 skiers. Nearly six seconds separating leader Cami Rast and skier in 30th.

How nasty is this course? Just had five DNFs in a six-skier span.

Conditions in Semmering are pretty crappy and course has broken down quickly. Shiffrin currently fourth, 0.54 behind leader Cami Rast. Very nice run from Paula Moltzan, who raced despite having a nasty crash yesterday. She’s sitting in 7th right now.

Shiffrin starts fourth in the slalom tomorrow in Semmering, where she’ll be looking to win her fifth slalom in a row this year and sixth in a row going back to last season. Moltzan starts 13th.

Shiffrin finishes sixth in the GS at Semmering and expands her lead in the overall standings. She’s now 114 points ahead of Alice Robinson, who DNFd in the first run.

Paula Moltzan starts fifth in GS tomorrow, with Shiffrin at No. 9 and Nina O’Brien at 11. AJ Hurt starts at 21, Elisabeth Bocock at 31, Mary Bocock at 40 and Kjersti Moritz rounds out the Americans at 59. First run at 4 am ET, second at 7 am.

When you check out a book, the Chicago Public Library tells you how much you saved that day, so far this year and since you started using the library. I LOVE this. Reminding people of the value of our common goods is a really important thing.

Belatedly, this line from Weiss' memo is...something Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em

Lindsey Vonn’s impressive start to the season comes with another prize: A spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment. The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.

In the context of some of the content of last nights CBS-nixed 60 Minutes segment to repost this April 2025 Trib piece that Latino men with Bulls tattoos in Chicago are being targeted as having attributable evidence leading to possible deportation: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/11/c...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

The Kansas City Chiefs and Chicago Bears shaking down their fans for new stadiums isn’t just greedy. At this time of year, when so many Americans are struggling, it’s insensitive.

Losing the annual Notre Dame-USC rivalry game sucks. No other way to say it.

OMG

BREAKING: Over-glorified blogger continues to demand unearned respect from people whose journalistic reputation she is destroying

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Winter is not what it is all cracked up to be. Today in Chicago.

she is a joke and a disaster.

This was my approach when trying to get oral interviews with segregationists for my first book. “I’m writing about you and I’d love to get your input, but I’m writing about you either way.”

If "they didn't respond/refused to comment" was reason to kill a story then most investigative journalism, honestly most journalism in general, would never get published

Ms. Free Speech strikes again. This marks the beginning of the end of 60 Minutes and Bari Weiss is a hack whose only skill is ingratiating herself to billionaire fascists. What a proud life. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

USMNT stays at 14 in FIFA’s final ranking of the year. Known opponents for World Cup stayed put, too, Australia at 26, Paraguay at 39. Spain ends the year at No. 1, followed by Argentina, France, England and Brazil.

In a world of — well, the list is long, be a Rick Steves.

Another day, another podium for Lindsey Vonn

The Bears-Packers rivalry has been pretty lopsided for a while now. Chicago’s epic comeback just gave it some new juice.

Caleb on end of game: The stadium went live and blew up. I’m happy for our guys, I’m happy for Chicago, I’m happy for this moment. We’ve got some other good games coming up. We’ll enjoy it and move on.

Caleb on the final play: I knew it was good. You’ve got that belief, you’ve got that confidence, you’ve got that swagger as an offense.

Ben Johnson on his first two games against the Neighbors to the North: "Came down to the wire in both the games. It's going to be an exciting future, I think."

Ben Johnson says they had practiced that final play in practice Thursday and it was "almost identical" to how it played out Saturday. "DJ ran a great route and Caleb threw him a great ball."

Chicago wins toss, will kick to start OT.

That turned around in a hurry. Chicago's special teams force and recover fumble on kickoff after 2-minute warning and Caleb takes them 53 yards to tie the game at 16 with 24 seconds left.

My “Malik Willis has high upside” take has been simmering on the back burner ever since his draft and we’re cooking tonight folks 👩🏻‍🍳

Malik Willis is really good.

Malik Willis connects with Romeo Doubs for a 33-yard TD. PAT good even with the penalty, and Green Bay leads 13-3.

Bears can't do anything with their big takeaway -- Nahshon Wright's forced fumble at Chicago 3 -- and have to punt