Kerry Tupper
@kerrytupper.bsky.social
Creighton fan. Nebraska Democrat. Student of history and theology. Duolingo addict.
Editorial: The church speaks out. A new era has dawned. www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
I’m happy to share today’s editorial from the National Catholic Reporter, commending US bishops who are speaking out against the Tr*mp admin’s foreign policy and its treatment of immigrants here at home.
I’m happy to share today’s editorial from the National Catholic Reporter, commending US bishops who are speaking out against the Tr*mp admin’s foreign policy and its treatment of immigrants here at home.
Editorial: The church speaks out. A new era has dawned.
It is a new level of opposition for American cardinals to formally question the fundamental morality of an administration's engagement with the world.
www.ncronline.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Editorial: The church speaks out. A new era has dawned. www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
I’m happy to share today’s editorial from the National Catholic Reporter, commending US bishops who are speaking out against the Tr*mp admin’s foreign policy and its treatment of immigrants here at home.
I’m happy to share today’s editorial from the National Catholic Reporter, commending US bishops who are speaking out against the Tr*mp admin’s foreign policy and its treatment of immigrants here at home.
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Trump has a ten-month plan to ensure further elections are impossible.
It's *not even halfway through January* and his paramilitary is occupying a city and killing protesters as he prepares to invoke the Insurrection Act and floats canceling elections.
Wake up: fascism is here.
It's *not even halfway through January* and his paramilitary is occupying a city and killing protesters as he prepares to invoke the Insurrection Act and floats canceling elections.
Wake up: fascism is here.
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Trump has a ten-month plan to ensure further elections are impossible.
It's *not even halfway through January* and his paramilitary is occupying a city and killing protesters as he prepares to invoke the Insurrection Act and floats canceling elections.
Wake up: fascism is here.
It's *not even halfway through January* and his paramilitary is occupying a city and killing protesters as he prepares to invoke the Insurrection Act and floats canceling elections.
Wake up: fascism is here.
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I was in the midst of preparing a Morning Memo arguing that Minneapolis is shaping up to be the catalyzing moment that Trump was looking for to justify doing what he has wanted to do since his 1st term: invoke the Insurrection Act...when he posted exactly that:
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I was in the midst of preparing a Morning Memo arguing that Minneapolis is shaping up to be the catalyzing moment that Trump was looking for to justify doing what he has wanted to do since his 1st term: invoke the Insurrection Act...when he posted exactly that:
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.
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In the last 4 days:
-- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ
-- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis
-- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist
-- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status
-- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ
-- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis
-- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist
-- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
In the last 4 days:
-- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ
-- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis
-- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist
-- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status
-- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ
-- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis
-- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist
-- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status
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Instead of conducting an investigation into a homicide, Kash Patel orders the FBI to piece together claims that can be used to further defame and smear the victim. This is how fascist regimes operate.
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Instead of conducting an investigation into a homicide, Kash Patel orders the FBI to piece together claims that can be used to further defame and smear the victim. This is how fascist regimes operate.
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Sanders: I am very worried that ICE is becoming a domestic army for Trump, and this goes way beyond the issue of immigration. It goes to the movement of this country toward authoritarianism and fear.
January 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Sanders: I am very worried that ICE is becoming a domestic army for Trump, and this goes way beyond the issue of immigration. It goes to the movement of this country toward authoritarianism and fear.
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They're gonna try and use this murder as a pretext to arrest a bunch of soccer moms from Signal chats and, like. I really do not think they are reading the room here.
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 AM
They're gonna try and use this murder as a pretext to arrest a bunch of soccer moms from Signal chats and, like. I really do not think they are reading the room here.
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So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
January 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
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If you ever what a person implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's child rape ring would do to distract from his crimes, now you know.
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
If you ever what a person implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's child rape ring would do to distract from his crimes, now you know.
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open.substack.com/pub/contrari... This mind-blowing attack is the direct result of a Supreme Court MAGA majority, and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. specifically, who granted him broad immunity never envisioned by the Framers. He has taken that and run with it—now headfirst into war.
Headfirst Into War
The horrific attack on Venezuela overnight puts the U.S. in the same camp as Russia.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... This mind-blowing attack is the direct result of a Supreme Court MAGA majority, and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. specifically, who granted him broad immunity never envisioned by the Framers. He has taken that and run with it—now headfirst into war.
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“It is a sickening irony that Pam Bondi—who has helped lead the Epstein files coverup to protect Trump and various other lawless actions—announced that Maduro and his wife ‘will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.’" open.substack.com/pub/america/...
Can We Weaken Trump's Criminal Rule?
A Saturday Prompt as Trump attacks Venezuela
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
“It is a sickening irony that Pam Bondi—who has helped lead the Epstein files coverup to protect Trump and various other lawless actions—announced that Maduro and his wife ‘will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.’" open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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306 days to the most important election of our lifetimes! That is when we win back the House and Senate!!
January 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
306 days to the most important election of our lifetimes! That is when we win back the House and Senate!!
God save Ukraine! God give the voters of the USA the will to once again support Ukraine and fight Putin! 🇺🇦🇺🇸🙏🏼
St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, right now.
Have a happy Christmas time, folks.
And thank you for supporting Ukraine all this time.
Have a happy Christmas time, folks.
And thank you for supporting Ukraine all this time.
December 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
God save Ukraine! God give the voters of the USA the will to once again support Ukraine and fight Putin! 🇺🇦🇺🇸🙏🏼
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BREAKING: #SCOTUS rejects Trump over deployment of National Guard to aid immigration enforcement in Illinois, says law limits use to when regular military is insufficient. 3 justices dissent: Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
25A443 Order
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December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
BREAKING: #SCOTUS rejects Trump over deployment of National Guard to aid immigration enforcement in Illinois, says law limits use to when regular military is insufficient. 3 justices dissent: Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Huge news from Supreme Court -- deciding against Administration stay motion and for reasons advanced by lone amicus from Marty Lederman. We'll repost my discussion with Marty but this is the case I called the Court's moment of truth Going live on substack NOW with @leahlitman.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Huge news from Supreme Court -- deciding against Administration stay motion and for reasons advanced by lone amicus from Marty Lederman. We'll repost my discussion with Marty but this is the case I called the Court's moment of truth Going live on substack NOW with @leahlitman.bsky.social
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
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The US Supreme Court rejecting Trump's attempt to federalize the National Guard to do his bidding is very important. It means if Trump tries to send troops out right before the election to intimidate voters or to seize voting machines, the courts can quickly order that to be illegal.
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The US Supreme Court rejecting Trump's attempt to federalize the National Guard to do his bidding is very important. It means if Trump tries to send troops out right before the election to intimidate voters or to seize voting machines, the courts can quickly order that to be illegal.
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Those opining that it could be fake are missing the point.
It was in Epstein's effects.
If it's fake, it was planted by Trump officials in a way tending to obscure cause of death.
If it's real, it is one of the most damning deathbed allegations ever made in American history.
Either is historic.
It was in Epstein's effects.
If it's fake, it was planted by Trump officials in a way tending to obscure cause of death.
If it's real, it is one of the most damning deathbed allegations ever made in American history.
Either is historic.
December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Those opining that it could be fake are missing the point.
It was in Epstein's effects.
If it's fake, it was planted by Trump officials in a way tending to obscure cause of death.
If it's real, it is one of the most damning deathbed allegations ever made in American history.
Either is historic.
It was in Epstein's effects.
If it's fake, it was planted by Trump officials in a way tending to obscure cause of death.
If it's real, it is one of the most damning deathbed allegations ever made in American history.
Either is historic.
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He is covering up extrajudicial killings.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
He is covering up extrajudicial killings.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
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And there goes MAGA’s latest talking point.
Bill Clinton just called on Trump to release the full Epstein Files, including all documents mentioning both Trump and Clinton.
“Refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion the DOJ’s actions to date are not about transparency, but about insinuation.”
“Refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion the DOJ’s actions to date are not about transparency, but about insinuation.”
December 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And there goes MAGA’s latest talking point.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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If you're a staffer at 60 Minutes who worked on that CECOT segment that got yanked by Bari Weiss at the last minute, figure out a way to leak it. Not saying it's an easy decision or there won't be consequences, but ask yourself why you got into journalism in the first place.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If you're a staffer at 60 Minutes who worked on that CECOT segment that got yanked by Bari Weiss at the last minute, figure out a way to leak it. Not saying it's an easy decision or there won't be consequences, but ask yourself why you got into journalism in the first place.
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Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.