Alex A. Pagliuca
@alexpagliuca.bsky.social
Writer. Film lover. Horror evangelist. Anti-fascist. Night owl. Misfit toy. Pragmatic idealist, and skeptic at the same time. Autistic. AI is for suckers. All I want is to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The Year in Horror 2025: Have You Checked The Children? | Alex Pagliuca
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We’re just about at year’s end. What was one of the dominant themes in horror 2025, and what does that say about the fears and anxieties of the people making and responding to them?
I have some ideas. Free to all.
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I have some ideas. Free to all.
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I hate that I have to even wonder that if @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social's staff hadn't broke the news of a measles outbreak, would ICE have even acknowledged it?
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I hate that I have to even wonder that if @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social's staff hadn't broke the news of a measles outbreak, would ICE have even acknowledged it?
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Here is a better angle of this sign. I originally received this from a friend, but it came from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Here is a better angle of this sign. I originally received this from a friend, but it came from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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Michelle Williams in Jean-Louis Sabaji at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
February 1, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Michelle Williams in Jean-Louis Sabaji at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
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Zara Larrson in Germanier at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
February 1, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Zara Larrson in Germanier at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
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Tyla in Dsquared2 fw13 at the #Grammys #fashionsky
February 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tyla in Dsquared2 fw13 at the #Grammys #fashionsky
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Before going inside to accept their #GRAMMYs and take the stage to perform, artists flaunted their stunning looks on the red carpet.
📸 Photo gallery 📸 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
📸 Photo gallery 📸 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
February 1, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Before going inside to accept their #GRAMMYs and take the stage to perform, artists flaunted their stunning looks on the red carpet.
📸 Photo gallery 📸 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
📸 Photo gallery 📸 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Rosé in Saint Laurent at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
February 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Rosé in Saint Laurent at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
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Addison Rae in Alaïa at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
February 2, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Addison Rae in Alaïa at the Grammys. More red carpet later on our site.
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This anecdote about young Schumer in the 1975 NYC financial crisis is, for my money, *the* Chuck Schumer anecdote. Not the Baileys thing. This.
Why would you not just give them away. Why would you make people give you 35 cents while doing performance politics. He *sold them*. Who does that.
Why would you not just give them away. Why would you make people give you 35 cents while doing performance politics. He *sold them*. Who does that.
February 2, 2026 at 12:16 AM
This anecdote about young Schumer in the 1975 NYC financial crisis is, for my money, *the* Chuck Schumer anecdote. Not the Baileys thing. This.
Why would you not just give them away. Why would you make people give you 35 cents while doing performance politics. He *sold them*. Who does that.
Why would you not just give them away. Why would you make people give you 35 cents while doing performance politics. He *sold them*. Who does that.
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I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
January 31, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
Between the Epstein Files and the last decade of white nationalism being treated like it’s just a bunch of lonely little boys who need a hug… I have come to understand how people can be convinced on brutally violent cleanses of their societies.
Not advocating it, but I now see how it works.
Not advocating it, but I now see how it works.
February 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Between the Epstein Files and the last decade of white nationalism being treated like it’s just a bunch of lonely little boys who need a hug… I have come to understand how people can be convinced on brutally violent cleanses of their societies.
Not advocating it, but I now see how it works.
Not advocating it, but I now see how it works.
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As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.
Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
February 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.
Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
The worst people are always convinced they’re smarter than everyone else, often because they spend so much time with stupid and/or servile people who continuously tell them its true.
I don't know whether to be confused or reassured that even with everything going on, there is no shortage of people who continue to voluntarily answer phone calls from Isaac Chotiner
February 1, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The worst people are always convinced they’re smarter than everyone else, often because they spend so much time with stupid and/or servile people who continuously tell them its true.
I took a film studies course in a community college around 09/10. I was so excited to get to hang w/other movie fanatics.
I was very disappointed
I was very disappointed
My experience way back in the 1990s was very similar: you d expected my film studies degree to be populated mostly by avid movie lovers, but most didn’t seem to care much for cinema and complained bitterly when made to watch anything more than a decade old at the time.
I haven’t read/won’t read the Atlantic piece, but I’ll note that when I was a film studies major in the early 2010s, many of my fellow majors didn’t seem to care much about movies; a non-zero subset chose the major b/c writing a screenplay as a thesis project was “easier” than doing a research paper
February 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
I took a film studies course in a community college around 09/10. I was so excited to get to hang w/other movie fanatics.
I was very disappointed
I was very disappointed
I’ve seen a lot of this. The thing is, the white nationalism is 100% home grown. The Nazis learned its implementation for us. Now, these POS are learning from Nazis, Pinochet, Franco, Argentina, Brazil and so on. So, yes, this is who the US is. Clearly, they’re also not above stealing from others.
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
February 1, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I’ve seen a lot of this. The thing is, the white nationalism is 100% home grown. The Nazis learned its implementation for us. Now, these POS are learning from Nazis, Pinochet, Franco, Argentina, Brazil and so on. So, yes, this is who the US is. Clearly, they’re also not above stealing from others.
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A wild thought experiment: imagine if, instead of Jared Leto, TRON: ARES had starred someone like Dev Patel. He has the right build, he can do action, and has weapons-grade screen charisma.
Better still — you wouldn't have to spend two hours thinking about Jared Leto.
Better still — you wouldn't have to spend two hours thinking about Jared Leto.
February 1, 2026 at 10:57 PM
A wild thought experiment: imagine if, instead of Jared Leto, TRON: ARES had starred someone like Dev Patel. He has the right build, he can do action, and has weapons-grade screen charisma.
Better still — you wouldn't have to spend two hours thinking about Jared Leto.
Better still — you wouldn't have to spend two hours thinking about Jared Leto.
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This is actually a plot point in The Count of Monte Cristo. Mercedes knows that Edmund Dantes means to harm her family because he refuses to eat or drink anything while visiting her home.
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
This is actually a plot point in The Count of Monte Cristo. Mercedes knows that Edmund Dantes means to harm her family because he refuses to eat or drink anything while visiting her home.
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As I've considered writing a book, I've gotten clear messages about this agency (sharing a link someone else provided that does a good summary)
newrepublic.com/article/1548...
newrepublic.com/article/1548...
February 1, 2026 at 10:55 PM
As I've considered writing a book, I've gotten clear messages about this agency (sharing a link someone else provided that does a good summary)
newrepublic.com/article/1548...
newrepublic.com/article/1548...
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leftists sharing ai memes are doing everything wrong
February 1, 2026 at 10:47 PM
leftists sharing ai memes are doing everything wrong
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This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 10:02 PM
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...