Flotsam and Jetsam - Lindsey Vonn Crashes Out

The most conspicuous news of the day was American skier, gold medal winner 41 year old Lindsey Vonn crashed out of her attempt to win the women's downhill race at the Milan/Cortina Olympics, and had to be airlifted out. Reports are she needed emergency surgery. I was on a bathroom break during Lindsey's run and missed it live, but suspect it will be rerun many times. It's quite likely an unfortunate end to a long, successful athletic carrier, but plagued with injuries. The event was eventually won by fellow American skier Breezy Johnson. David Manney at PJM on Lindsey Vonn’s Crash and the Brutal Truth About Olympic Risk. "Mountains don't care about medals or legacy; they respond only with gravity, speed, and error." A YouTube of the crash is on the post. Althouse on the trivial, Aging is sad in a new way now.

Hoy, Lindsey Vonn compite en sus quintos JJOO.

📷 Foto ficha olímpica Turín 2006 (21 años)
📷 Foto ficha olímpica Milán-Cortina 2026 (41 años) pic.twitter.com/jQotPOJrsa

— David Orenes (@david_lrl) February 8, 2026

Breezy Johnson

So, yeah, she grew up. Kids do that. Modelling became part of her life. Changed her hair color, had professional makeup, maybe even had some "work" done, (I mean other than all her leg surgery). Her face looks thinner, but then I am reminded of Catherine Deneuve's famous quote: "At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass." I don't think competitive downhill skiers have much choice. Many are criticizing Lindsey for taking the spot on the Olympic team and even making the run after an ACL injury a few days before. Not I. Ultimately the Olympics are about individual accomplishment. She won her spot on the team fairly, and was trying her best when she failed. You can't ask more. At Breitbart, Team USA Olympic Skiers ‘Heartbroken,’ Say They Don’t Represent ICE Operations by Wearing American Flag “I feel heartbroken about what’s happened in the United States ….. I’m pretty sure you’re referencing ICE, and some of the protests and things like that,” Lillis stated." As some TV pundit pointed out last night, reporters didn't run around asking athletes if they supported the US during the Biden, Obama or Clinton administrations. Stupid politics from someone who has spent their whole life running down mountains is to be expected. 

Oh, and I guess there was an important football game last night.

Sundance at CTH hosts President Trump's Superbowl Day Interview and Sunday Talks – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Discusses Trump Economic Plan and Growth Forecast. At Am Con, Trump Didn’t Destroy the ‘Rules-Based International Order’ "It was always a fraud." Nick Ballasy at JTN reports House Intel chairman warns China may be setting up illicit biolabs in U.S. to seed next pandemic. “Why would you have some illicit labs set up in an Airbnb, except for, maybe, you’re trying to create some sort of, you know, patient zero scenario, that you might infect someone, that you might create another COVID-like scenario." At TownHall, Scott McLallen notices TrumpRx Triggers TDS in Elizabeth Warren.

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber, "Wow. The Epstein Files just took down the architect of CCDH! The censorship self-described “black ops” firm whose self-described mission was to “Kill Musk’s Twitter.” Thank you" @RepThomasMassie! Quote Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd, "Goodbye, Morgan McSweeney, founder of the censorship NGO, Center for Countering Digital Hate."

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— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 20, 2025

From Twitchy, Whoa, His Eyes Get BIGGER? Adam Schiff's Reaction to ABC's Jon Karl Pushing Him on Voter ID Is HILARIOUS. Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Karl: What about requiring a photo ID to vote. Are you in favor of that? Schiff: The SAVE Act is a voter suppression law. Karl: But 71% of Democrats favor requiring photo ID. Is that something that you can support? And if not, why not? Schiff: This is another way to suppress the vote. Translation: We’re going to ignore the wishes of our own voters who don’t understand that more secure elections will destroy our party." Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29, "BREAKING: Democratic Senator John Fetterman joins the Republicans and comes out in favor of requiring an ID to vote in every election across the country. “I do not believe that it’s unreasonable to show an ID to vote.” Fetterman is right once again."

At NYPo, Bjorn Lomberg observes Reality is finally crashing New York’s utopian green-energy party "Facing a court-imposed Friday deadline, New York has effectively conceded that its green goals would pose “costs consumers simply cannot bear.”"

Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson, "This is absolutely delicious! Karen Bass is suing Gavin Newsom over the Palisades Fire. They’re eating their own!" Quote Jeremy Padawer @JeremyCom, "The City of Los Angeles is now suing the State of California. And they called the fire victims “opportunists,” “profiteers,” and “conspiracy theorists.”"

Lawsplainer Shipwreckedcrew sees An Earthquake Ruling From The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals On An Important Immigration Issue -- Detention of Aliens Without Bond Is Lawful. "Thousands of illegal aliens have been ordered released on bond by federal judges based on.established practice of almost 30 years -- but the Fifth Circuit holds that is not required by the statute." CIS is Going Back to the Past to Explain ‘Administrative Warrants’, Immigration Enforcement, "The Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and an administrative arrest and removal process that provides greater constitutional protection than opponents appear to appreciate." Commonplace on The High Cost of Immigrant Welfare. "There’s a bigger story behind the Minnesota fraud scandal." At Hat Hair, Larry Elder compares Mass Deportation: Who Was More 'Inhumane' -- Obama or Trump?

From WJ, Tom Homan Reveals How Many Anti-ICE Agitators Have Been Arrested: Many Are Paying the Price "Border czar Tom Homan told reporters that over 150 people had been arrested for trying to thwart United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers." Not enough yet. Campus Reform reports University of Minnesota arrests 67 at hotel protest, leftist student group slams school. Vicky Taft at PJM, Out of Control: Leftist Shoots Right-Wing Livestreamers in Portland in Drive-By Attack Near ICE HQ, with a BB gun. It would be funny if they fired back with a deer rifle. TownHall's Matt Vespa, Wait, That's Why Dems Are Scared About ICE Agents Wearing Body Cams R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts, "#BREAKING: Democrats are expressing concerns and fear that body cameras could be ICE's new Mass Surveillance tool and could infringe on the privacy rights of protesters." Steve Guest @SteveGuest, "HAHAHAHAHAHA. Democrats now oppose body cameras on law enforcement." Quote POLITICO @politico "Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool." At Front Page, Dems Decide ICE Body Cams Are Bad. "ICE body cameras are a means of capturing evidence of their crimes." So they want them on during ICE arrests, but off during demonstrations. From Shooting News Week, Life in Chicago: While the Mayor Attacks ICE Agents, Gangs Shoot Up Their Rivals in Broad Daylight. Don Surber reports hilarity, White saviors are flinging dildos in ICE capades "Zak X mimics anti-ICE neighborhood patrols by sounding alarms that draw crowds, then reveals himself and mocks them for responding. His videos, amplified since early February 2026, have gained millions of views amid Operation Metro Surge, where ICE targets criminal noncitizens in the area. While right-leaning accounts praise the stunt as clever distraction from real raids, critics call it dangerous provocation in a tense city scarred by the fatal shooting of two watchers in January. Wall Street Apes tweeted, “This is hilarious. An American went to a location where he saw a member of the Minneapolis ICE Watch. He brought his own whistle. “He blows it and waits for all the ICE Watch activists to come running to waste their time. This is gold. You blow that whistle and next thing ya know you’re surrounded by retards. . . .Competing Antifa groups are slinging dildos at one another." Amanda Stulman at LI sees a Texas Lawmaker Go Mask Off: Non-Whites Can “Take Over This Country”
Gene Wu, member of the Texas House of Representatives, encouraged select racial groups to engage in an intersectional struggle against their shared “oppressor.” Stu Smith at CJ worries about An Anti-ICE Movement Increasingly Run by Revolutionaries. "The Freedom Road Socialist Organization and allies have played a key role in opposing immigration enforcement."

Driscoll has a Driscolly post at Insty, starting with PEGGY NOONAN: "A Lament for the Washington Post." Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "The moment was Covid. It happened. Almost every journalist in the nation failed to relay reliable information, instead succumbing to panic and the widest-spread daily curtailment of civil liberties in my lifetime. The rare figures who didn't were silenced or stifled or removed." Quote Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro "Every single word of this fantastic column by @Peggynoonannyc ‘I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "And then every major journalistic institution said it was OK to go out and protest two minutes after telling us if we're outside together we're all going to die. That was it." Sundance The IC Nut is Cracking – Washington Post CEO, Will Lewis Quits. Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly, "Hang this WaPo in the Louvre." Insty sez BEZOS HASN’T GUTTED THE POST ENOUGH YET: "Colin Kaepernick Washington Post story on Super Bowl Sunday draws social media backlash. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was top of mind for The Washington Post ahead of Super Bowl LX on Sunday. . . ." Sauron's Eye whines Atlanta Journal-Constitution to lay off about 50 employees as it restructures for growth. "Restructures for growth," that's a nice euphemism. I hope they appreciate it. Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley, "It is hard to say when the NY Times hit rock bottom, but this may be the conclusive landing spot." " NY Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joked how Vance's mother should have sold him to feed her drug addiction. She recently celebrated 10 years of sobriety..." Fox is outrage when a NYT columnist says JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs. "The vice president celebrated his mother's 10th year of sobriety in April" . Betsy Stauffer at LI hears a CNN Political Analyst Calls for ‘Fumigation’ to ‘Surgically Remove the Cancer’ of MAGA. “Joe Biden was … supposed to be a bridge or a palette cleanser. Or somebody who morally and ethically was antithetical to who Donald Trump was.” Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "This is the shortest and most precise explanation for the downfall of journalism that I have seen thus far." Quote Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "I have yet to see a single journalist publicly wonder what role journalists themselves played in the decline of journalism. x.com/JoshKraushaar/…"

From the College Fix, Arkansas State U. protesters want ‘accountability’ following alleged racist incidents "Want a ‘commitment’ administrators ‘will not use the First Amendment to defend ‘derogatory’ speech.’" It's a good bet the incidents are hoaxes. They usually are. Rob Henderson @robkhenderson. "My latest for @thetimes "Many educated elites have long excused rule-breaking among people in more disadvantaged communities, arguing that the system is stacked against them...Now, bizarrely, they are extending that same moral leniency to themselves."

At Spiked, Trans surgery is medical malpractice, "Fox Varian’s successful lawsuit against the doctors who removed her breasts needs to be a turning point." AMAC predicts The Transgender Industrial Complex Is Collapsing Josh Hammer at Hat Hair wonders Is This the End of Transgender Hysteria? It may be premature; from Da Caller, Infamous School Board Trains Staff To Fight ‘Terrorist’ Parents Angry About Trans Bathroom Policy, Loudoun County, VA, over the river and through the woods.

Among Jen Van Laar's RedState HOT TAKES: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance Was a Middle Finger to America. I didn't watch it; did you? At the Mix, Chris Pratt Defies Hollywood To Praise Military Veterans.