Paul Krugman:

[applegrove]

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2026-01-26T01:16:25.181Z

Applegrove: Karoline Leavitt is speaking right now calling allies in CBP and ICE great and Trump as full of empathy. Total gaslighting.

[Wounded Bear]

2. K&R...nt

[progressoid]

3. And there are millions of Americans who have willfully accepted the gaslighting.

Worse yet are the tens of millions who gleefully support killing unarmed US citizens, kidnapping children, ignoring the 2nd, 4th, 6th Constitutional Amendments, etc.

I made the mistake of visiting some comment sections. Their fealty to the orange pedophile is pretty sickening.

[LoisB]

4. ...until the thugs come for them

[BattleRow]

5. Acquiescent accomplices...

[lastlib]

6. applegrove, that's why....

leavitt has the moniker "Karo-lyin'". If her lips are moving, she's lyin'.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

[swong19104]

8. Why is Paul Krugman's

name in the title when nothing in the content refers to him?

[applegrove]

9. His name is in the first line. It says "Paul Krugman this morning:"

[pat_k]

10. The content posted is from Krugman's substack (link)

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/monsters

I was working on another wonkish post about China’s trade surplus when the news about Alex Pretti’s murder broke. I’ll put that post up at some point, but not today.

It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters...

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More good stuff from Krugman in the substack post than the bit that was posted on bluesky.

[Trailrider1951]

11. Here's more from Paul Krugman's substack:

Quote:

Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.

At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.

I wish I could believe that the last few weeks will be the last straw, but I don’t. To be honest, I wish I believed in Hell, because if it did exist, the enablers would be going there along with the monsters.

What I do believe in is the courage and decency of millions of ordinary Americans, which have been so dramatically on display in Minneapolis. We can only hope that this courage and decency get us through this nightmare — and we must do all we can to make it happen.

Amen, Mr. Krugman.

[JudyM]

12. That second paragraph. The monsters aren't going to change. The enablers are making a choice every day

and their cowardice and self-interest are their default.