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Kevin Dupuy

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I will not be tolerated. My life is international politics, travel, & @KelsaPellettiere.com. Still a moderate libertarian… I know. I voted against myself one time. KevinYeaux.com

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Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 27d

New from me: it’s been hard to write anything about what’s going on in America this last week, but we’ve moved from “threat to free speech” to “a state that actively restricts political speech” very quickly. https://www.kevinyeaux.com/p/an-elephant-on-our-chest

An Elephant on Our Chest

America’s descent into being a state without free expression was quick, and eventually will affect us all.

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Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 8h

RIP to Windows 10, the second worst version of modern NT-based Windows.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 22h

I must have misunderstood because I thought we were doing pro-constitutional-monarchy protests.

No, Kings!

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 1d

TFL posted a YouTube short of a first run 99 Beetle owned *by VW* as a commemorative vehicle and… the headliner is falling down. Classic.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 1d

Another day in Trump’s America.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 3d

If you’re looking at that 2% for the only GOP candidate curiously, obviously what few Republicans there are in Orleans generally vote for moderate Dems.

My favorite fun fact about Dem strength in NOLA is that Trump got a lower share of the vote in Orleans in 2024 than in Manhattan, SF, or Portland.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 3d

New Orleans city councilor Helena Moreno projected to avoid a runoff and win the race to become mayor outright tonight, currently at 55% with most precincts in. She has been the front runner all campaign long and backed by much of the city’s business community and former mayor Landrieu.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 3d

I tell you the world starting going downhill when MSNBC stopped airing “Lockup” all weekend.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 3d

I left the TV on for my animals and when I came home tonight I discovered that CNN has a show where Tony Shalhoub travels around the world and eats bread.

I know that sounds like a SNL skit, but it appears to be real.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 4d

There appears to be a Russian boxer on MSNBC tonight

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 5d

Damn, I haven’t gotten around to watching the Iraq war yet. Did it go well?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 5d

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 5d

Any bit of chipping away at the MAGA coalition should be encouraged.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 5d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 6d

I thought we all agreed we weren’t going to pin our hopes on Congress magically restoring a long lost sense of patriotism and conscience this term. I guess he didn’t get the memo.

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 8d

GOOD, BOSA, and Rise Mzansi announce merger into “Unite for Change” in advance of 2026 local elections https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-10-05-what-the-good-bosa-rise-mzansi-merger-means-for-sas-2026-coalition-politics-arena/

Bosa, Good and Rise Mzansi merge to contest 2026 elections

Build One South Africa (Bosa), Good and Rise Mzansi have merged to form Unite for Change, ahead of the 2026 local elections. However, the parties’ current councillors, MPs, and MPLs will serve out the...

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Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 8d

The Conservative conference is going as well as you’d expect.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8d

Another astonishing sign of incredible incompetence from the UK Conservatives. They can’t even get right the name of the country they want to represent.
(Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)

Promo bar of chocolate saying
"When Labour negotiates,
Britian loses"

Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 8d

Meanwhile in 2028 news, the RNC moves forward with appointing the committee responsible for setting the rules for the 2028 presidential primary process: https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/omJREDqOlR0ruyGmZDLA6knurwHCmMdU

RNC Chair names members of the 2028 Presidential Nominating Process Committee

September 30 was not just the end of the fiscal year for the federal government. Under the rules of the Republican National Committee (RNC),...

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