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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We live in a world where a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker is treated better in prison than the children who’ve been detained by ICE.
Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility …
5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.
Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility …
5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.
January 30, 2026 at 11:41 PM
We live in a world where a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker is treated better in prison than the children who’ve been detained by ICE.
Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility …
5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.
Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility …
5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.
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Here’s the thing about whether or not someone is ironically pushing antisemitic tropes into the world without any context or explanation or if they’re doing so sincerely, it doesn’t matter.
February 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Here’s the thing about whether or not someone is ironically pushing antisemitic tropes into the world without any context or explanation or if they’re doing so sincerely, it doesn’t matter.
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"You can’t just measure the value of something in terms of 'whether or not it makes everything worse for everyone.' The world is much more complicated than that."
Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
“[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...
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February 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"You can’t just measure the value of something in terms of 'whether or not it makes everything worse for everyone.' The world is much more complicated than that."
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This is one aspect of Democratic immigration politics that has been extraordinarily damaging: a refusal to actually codify and clarify protections and to treat them instead as revokable permissions
That the Democrats never bothered to convert Reagan-era permission for Haitians to work and live in the US from temporary to permanent is—I know this about them and yet.
February 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
This is one aspect of Democratic immigration politics that has been extraordinarily damaging: a refusal to actually codify and clarify protections and to treat them instead as revokable permissions
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One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode
This shift is possible and important to aim for
This shift is possible and important to aim for
February 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode
This shift is possible and important to aim for
This shift is possible and important to aim for
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I assume there’ll be a crime scene tent outside Peter’s house presently with squads of coppers rifling through his stuff, all of it live on television. Because we already established that how we investigate political corruption in this country, isn’t it.
February 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I assume there’ll be a crime scene tent outside Peter’s house presently with squads of coppers rifling through his stuff, all of it live on television. Because we already established that how we investigate political corruption in this country, isn’t it.
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A new statement from Epstein survivors:
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
January 30, 2026 at 10:33 PM
A new statement from Epstein survivors:
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
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The people who push the EdTech, Apps, and Test Prep do not want us to solve the problem they’ve created. These outcomes are not an accident or a side effect. They are the intention.
Setting aside elementary curriculum & instruction for the moment, we've known for decades much of what it takes to encourage reading in and out of school by secondary students regardless of gender, and instead of doing this, we've plied them with edtech, apps, test prep, and devices they carry 24/7.
Why Boys Are Behind in Reading at Every Age
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The people who push the EdTech, Apps, and Test Prep do not want us to solve the problem they’ve created. These outcomes are not an accident or a side effect. They are the intention.
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Sorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now
This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
February 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Sorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now
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“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious LUST FOR UNBRIDLED POWER and the IMPOSITION OF CRUELTY IN ITS QUEST know no bounds and ARE BEREFT OF HUMAN DECENCY”
~ The Federal Judge
~ The Federal Judge
Judge orders release of 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minnesota
The judge accused the Trump administration of inhumanity in its approach to deportations.
www.yahoo.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:41 PM
“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious LUST FOR UNBRIDLED POWER and the IMPOSITION OF CRUELTY IN ITS QUEST know no bounds and ARE BEREFT OF HUMAN DECENCY”
~ The Federal Judge
~ The Federal Judge
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Warfare comes to Minnesota streets against unarmed civilians. youtube.com/shorts/nlJ3H...
How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
YouTube video by The New York Times
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February 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Warfare comes to Minnesota streets against unarmed civilians. youtube.com/shorts/nlJ3H...
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Love this one (and all the others in this thread) from @raxkingisdead.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com
i wrote about the extended metaphor that is the music in Sinners
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February 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Love this one (and all the others in this thread) from @raxkingisdead.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com
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Miller's claim was pioneered by none other than Confederate President Jefferson Davis:
"The condition of slavery with us is, in a word, Mr. President, nothing but the form of civil government instituted for a class of people not fit to govern themselves."
"The condition of slavery with us is, in a word, Mr. President, nothing but the form of civil government instituted for a class of people not fit to govern themselves."
February 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Miller's claim was pioneered by none other than Confederate President Jefferson Davis:
"The condition of slavery with us is, in a word, Mr. President, nothing but the form of civil government instituted for a class of people not fit to govern themselves."
"The condition of slavery with us is, in a word, Mr. President, nothing but the form of civil government instituted for a class of people not fit to govern themselves."
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“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”
"‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms"
February 1, 2026 at 1:55 PM
“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”
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This is going to devastate elder care and hospitals.
“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”
"‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms"
February 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
This is going to devastate elder care and hospitals.
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If nothing else I think it’s more than fair to say all of the major players in the Trump admin so far are fanatical adherents to mudsill theory and it shapes their policies both foreign and domestic.
Honest to god I’ve been wondering for a few weeks now if it was too inflammatory to call these people the lynching class. In in the end, I don’t think it’s my place to answer that questiona
Miller's claim was pioneered by none other than Confederate President Jefferson Davis:
"The condition of slavery with us is, in a word, Mr. President, nothing but the form of civil government instituted for a class of people not fit to govern themselves."
"The condition of slavery with us is, in a word, Mr. President, nothing but the form of civil government instituted for a class of people not fit to govern themselves."
February 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM
If nothing else I think it’s more than fair to say all of the major players in the Trump admin so far are fanatical adherents to mudsill theory and it shapes their policies both foreign and domestic.
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This sounds like a banger tbh
Cauldron of Blood (1970)
TMDB score 43%
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
#movies #moviesky #badmovies
TMDB score 43%
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
#movies #moviesky #badmovies
February 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
This sounds like a banger tbh
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This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
www.wsj.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:30 AM
This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.
It is 27 degrees here in Florida right now. That shit ain’t right.
February 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM
It is 27 degrees here in Florida right now. That shit ain’t right.
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I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
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Children. They are literally tear gassing children.
February 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Children. They are literally tear gassing children.
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This is making my mind implode just the interconnected web of billionaires ruining shit… I want to SCREAM
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
February 1, 2026 at 12:09 AM
This is making my mind implode just the interconnected web of billionaires ruining shit… I want to SCREAM
Lots of folks spent too much time reading and listening to grifters using social justice language as a cudgel against their perceived competition instead of picking up books by people who have been part of or about movements that succeeded in accomplishing something. Shit's sad.
I really wish we could take some of the negative valence off of “performative” because performance is tremendously important right now especially
"In response to criticisms she's heard about the hat being 'performative,' Mashaal, the shop owner, said the thousands of dollars that have gone toward supporting their community speaks for itself."
January 31, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Lots of folks spent too much time reading and listening to grifters using social justice language as a cudgel against their perceived competition instead of picking up books by people who have been part of or about movements that succeeded in accomplishing something. Shit's sad.