Here's the correct quote from above with appropriate punctuaiton:

Some Texas officials seized on the incident to call for tighter immigration controls, after Fox News reported that the truck used in the attack had recently entered the country at the southern border. The network later retracted the report, saying the truck entered the country in November--earlier than first reported--and was driven by someone who "does not appear to be the shooter." Patrick, who is acting governor with Abbott out of the state, said Jabbar rented the truck on Dec. 30.

It seems likely Trump was using the retracted Fox News report rather than any intelligence info he received as the president-elect. But as I said, the jury is still out on whether Jabar had any ISIS cohorts who entered this country illegally and helped him in some way or if he was a lone wolf who just became self-radicalized online.

LOL Gal. Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove the rented pickup truck across the border into Texas. ISIS Flag in the truck. Prior social postings about terror. Trump made his comment based off of information given as our next president. It's cute how quick you and corky arrive with the Poo-Pourri to spray the stink, stank, stunk posts by Zed and others.
#135 | Posted by gracieamazed

Trump sprays stinky lies consistently and constantly, and so do you when you instantly and automatically believe him and follow suit.

LOL Gal. Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove the rented pickup truck across the border into Texas. ISIS Flag in the truck. Prior social postings about terror. Trump made his comment based off of information given as our next president. It's cute how quick you and corky arrive with the Poo-Pourri to spray the stink, stank, stunk posts by Zed and others.
#135 | Posted by gracieamazed

That's not what the reporting I've read indicates:

Some Texas officials seized on the incident to call for tighter immigration controls, after Fox News reported that the truck used in the attack had recently entered the country at the southern border. The network later retracted the report, saying the truck entered the country in November " earlier than first reported " and was driven by someone who "does not appear to be the shooter." Patrick, who is acting governor with Abbott out of the state, said Jabbar rented the truck on Dec. 30.

But before Fox's update, the narrative was promoted by conservative social media influencers and some Texas lawmakers. Texans for Strong Borders, a group that has pushed lawmakers to adopt hardline border policies, posted on social media that, "if it turn[s] out to be the case that this was an ISIS ramming attack in which the suspect crossed the U.S.-Mexico border," it would be "EXACTLY the nightmare scenario border security experts have been warning about for years."

Texas does not have partisan voting registration. But when he lived in NC he was a registered democrat. Shocked.
#70 | Posted by gracieamazed

When did he live in NC? I wonder if it was around the same time Trump was also registered as a Democrat?

Trump in 04: I probably identify more as Democrat

Before Donald Trump was a front-running Republican presidential candidate, the real estate mogul believed that the nation's economy ran better when Democrats were in control and that Hillary Clinton would be a strong negotiator with foreign nations.

"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat," Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a 2004 interview. "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats. ... But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans."

I'm glad the FBI caught this guy before had the chance to take his cache operational.

Speaking of people jumping the gun:

Trump Falsely Suggested New Orleans Suspect was an Immigrant

The president-elect said on social media that he was right about fearing criminals on the other side of the border. Officials later identified the suspect as a U.S.-born citizen and Army veteran.

Food for thought:

Musk telling MAGAs to go f--k themselves
- Gal
It was from a movie you knuckle head.
#3 | Posted by oneironaut

So what? Here's Musk's tweet:

Late on Friday night, Musk defended H-1B visas again, posting on X: "The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B." He continued: "Take a big step back and --- YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend." According to Forbes, Musk's Tesla was among the leading employers of those holding H-1B visas in 2024.

Trump having H-1B works on his property is icing on the cake
#3 | Posted by oneironaut

Trump does not use H-IB visas on his property and, if fact, he came out against them in 202o, which is why I said earlier he is either lying and/or confused:

On Saturday, in an interview with the New York Post, President-elect Donald Trump threw his MAGA supporters under the bus and sided with Musk and pharmaceutical entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy on H-1B visas. "I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That's why we have them," Trump said, referring to the H-1B visas that permit companies to hire foreign workers in skilled occupations. "I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It's a great program."

Trump appeared to be confusing H-1B visas with H-2A and H-2B visas, which cover temporary agricultural workers and seasonal workers in tourism, hospitality, and landscaping. In fact, as Leah McElrath pointed out, Trump said in 2016 that the H-1B program shouldn't exist. And as Judd Legum pointed out, on June 22, 2020, Trump issued an executive order suspending H-1B visas because he said they were taking jobs from Americans.

6 & 7 I know.

A few of potential 20 questions:

Is she 10' tall?

Does she own a restaurant?

I was just about to post this:

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com

The 43-year-old son of Republican Senator Kevin Cramer was sentenced to 28 years for killing a police officer in a 100mph meth-fueled chase after escaping a hospital and stealing his mom's car. Cramer has frequently attacked President Biden by invoking his son, Hunter.

If you missed out on the backstory of this MAGA vs DOJE feud you can read about it here:

Civil war has broken out within the MAGA Republicans. On the one side are the traditional MAGAs, who tend to be white, anti-immigrant, and less educated than the rest of the U.S. They believe that the modern government's protection of equal rights for women and minorities has ruined America, and they tend to want to isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world. They make up Trump's voting base.

On the other side are the new MAGAs who appear to have taken control of the incoming Trump administration. Led by Elon Musk, who bankrolled Trump's campaign, the new MAGA wing is made up of billionaires, especially tech entrepreneurs, many of whom are themselves immigrants.

Heather Cox Richardson contemplated what Trump is up to this way:

When viewed next to the statements of Russian pundits that a few powerful leaders should divide the world according to spheres of influence, there is perhaps logic to Trump's demands. Trump is not threatening our rivals, but rather is threatening our own allies in the area around the U.S. And now Musk is supporting an anti-NATO, pro-Russia party in Germany. It could be that what we are seeing is an attempt to throw away NATO and America's influence across the globe in order to carve up the world into spheres, with Trump offering to abandon Europe to Russia while the U.S., run by the DOGE faction of the Republican Party, officially takes control of a U.S.-centric sphere.

Up thread I wrote: "He was the best of us." What I thought but didn't add at the time: The polar opposite of Trump, who is among the worst of us.

Heidi Przybyla
@heidireports.bsky.social

The arc of history may bend toward justice.
But what an injustice that this took 43 years to come out, when Carter was 98 and in hospice care.

RIP, Jimmy Carter.

"Don't release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal."

"History needs to know that this happened," said Mr. Barnes, who turns 85 next month. "I think it's so significant and I guess knowing that the end is near for President Carter put it on my mind more and more and more. I just feel like we've got to get it down some way."

"History needs to know that this happened," said Mr. Barnes, who turns 85 next month. "I think it's so significant and I guess knowing that the end is near for President Carter put it on my mind more and more and more. I just feel like we've got to get it down some way."

A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.

He was the best of us. RIP, President Carter.

Barack Obama:

For decades, you could walk into Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia on some Sunday mornings and see hundreds of tourists from around the world crammed into the pews. And standing in front of them, asking with a wink if there were any visitors that morning, would be President Jimmy Carter--preparing to teach Sunday school, just like he had done for most of his adult life.

Some who came to hear him speak were undoubtedly there because of what President Carter accomplished in his four years in the White House--the Camp David Accords he brokered that reshaped the Middle East; the work he did to diversify the federal judiciary, including nominating a pioneering women's rights activist and lawyer named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the federal bench; the environmental reforms he put in place, becoming one of the first leaders in the world to recognize the problem of climate change.

Others were likely there because of what President Carter accomplished in the longest, and most impactful, post-presidency in American history--monitoring more than 100 elections around the world; helping virtually eliminate Guinea worm disease, an infection that had haunted Africa for centuries; becoming the only former president to earn a Nobel Peace Prize; and building or repairing thousands of homes in more than a dozen countries with his beloved Rosalynn as part of Habitat for Humanity.

But I'm willing to bet that many people in that church on Sunday morning were there, at least in part, because of something more fundamental: President Carter's decency.

Elected in the shadow of Watergate, Jimmy Carter promised voters that he would always tell the truth. And he did--advocating for the public good, consequences be damned. He believed some things were more important than reelection--things like integrity, respect, and compassion. Because Jimmy Carter believed, as deeply as he believed anything, that we are all created in God's image.

Whenever I had a chance to spend time with President Carter, it was clear that he didn't just profess these values. He embodied them. And in doing so, he taught all of us what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice, and service. In his Nobel acceptance speech, President Carter said, "God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace." He made that choice again and again over the course of his 100 years, and the world is better for it.

Maranatha Baptist Church will be a little quieter on Sundays, but President Carter will never be far away--buried alongside Rosalynn next to a willow tree down the road, his memory calling all of us to heed our better angels. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned from this remarkable man.

Thanks for the info, TH.

Found this, which I haven't verified but sounds plausible:

The original version included $190M and what passed includes $63M in funding. So, the kids lost $127M (or about 2/3 of the funding).

"f/k U !! ...A whole.
dems are lying trash...."

It sure looks like not all the funding for pediatric cancer research was restored:

Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Big update! There were 5 separate bills having to do with pediatric cancer in the original CR. All got stripped out. BUT--the provision reauthorizing NIH pediatric cancer research already passed the house earlier this year. So Senate just put it into their bill and it no will get signed!

Here's the reality. One part of the proposed funding for pediatric cancer research was restored, but not all of it:

But in the end, the Senate on Friday renewed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, named after a 10-year-old girl who died from an inoperable brain tumor in 2013, in a unanimous vote. The bill extended $12.6 million in annual cancer research funding through 2031, allowing the National Institutes of Health to continue researching the biology of childhood cancer and structural birth defects.

But three other cancer-related measures were scrapped at the end of 118th Congress. Those include a new policy that would have made it easier for low-income children on Medicaid to cross state lines for specialized cancer treatment, and two bills aimed at incentivizing pediatric cancer drug development.

I bet someone has the Matt Gaetz version of the Hunter Biden dick pics, but fortunately for Gaetz we'll never seen a big blown up poster of them at a Congressional hearing.

In 2017 at the start of Trump's first term, the breakdown in Congress was:

241 Rs to 194 Ds in the House

51 Rs to 47 Ds & 2 Is (who caucused with Ds) in the Senate.

If they release the report, it's proof Gaetz made more enemies than friends while he was in Congress.

When Republicans lose, they claim they won. When Republicans win by a little, they say they won by a lot. When Democrats lose by a little, they act like they got massacred. I'm not saying Democrats don't have work to do with the working class, but my prediction is that if Republicans misread the 2024 election results and overplay their hand, they will go a long way in helping Democrats win back that segment of the populaiton.