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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www.patreon.com/posts/145574...
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ICE agents camp out at Glendale hospital for 6 days waiting to re-apprehend patient
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-...
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-...
ICE agents camp out at Glendale hospital for 6 days waiting to re-apprehend patient
Nurses are demanding hospitals ban ICE agents after a stakeout at Glendale Memorial Hospital created a "hostile environment," and a state senator is now backing legislation to keep immigration enforce...
lapublicpress.org
July 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ICE agents camp out at Glendale hospital for 6 days waiting to re-apprehend patient
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-...
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-...
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In Midvale at about 10 a.m., hundreds of students walked out of Hillcrest High School as part of the “National Shutdown” – which called for “no school, no work and no shopping” to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
January 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM
In Midvale at about 10 a.m., hundreds of students walked out of Hillcrest High School as part of the “National Shutdown” – which called for “no school, no work and no shopping” to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.
A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:
www.georgiafort.com/support
A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:
www.georgiafort.com/support
Support Independent Journalism | GF
www.georgiafort.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.
A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:
www.georgiafort.com/support
A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:
www.georgiafort.com/support
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if you have to work? try not to spend money.
if you have to spend money? try to support small businesses.
can't do either? spread the word and show support. ask those who can strike how you can help them.
resistance is a kind of versatile spectrum like that 🖤 please take care
if you have to spend money? try to support small businesses.
can't do either? spread the word and show support. ask those who can strike how you can help them.
resistance is a kind of versatile spectrum like that 🖤 please take care
January 30, 2026 at 2:22 PM
if you have to work? try not to spend money.
if you have to spend money? try to support small businesses.
can't do either? spread the word and show support. ask those who can strike how you can help them.
resistance is a kind of versatile spectrum like that 🖤 please take care
if you have to spend money? try to support small businesses.
can't do either? spread the word and show support. ask those who can strike how you can help them.
resistance is a kind of versatile spectrum like that 🖤 please take care
Classic
January 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Classic
The great thing about this is that it’s just additional proof that whiteness never existed. A bunch of rich fucks made up the concept of race to get even more rich off of the most horrid human exploitation imaginable, and successfully sold it to their populations.
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The great thing about this is that it’s just additional proof that whiteness never existed. A bunch of rich fucks made up the concept of race to get even more rich off of the most horrid human exploitation imaginable, and successfully sold it to their populations.
So… it’s gone now.
I think they might be releasing the Epstein files now *as* a distraction. (I read this entire particular file and can’t wrap my head around why they did. Did they just miss it?)
www.justice.gov
January 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM
So… it’s gone now.
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Trump using playbook written by neo-Nazis.
Mass solidarity + support is needed in the face of yet another anti-Black and white supremacist wave of attacks.
These are our neighbors, co-workers, and family members. What happens to them, will soon come for everyone. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Mass solidarity + support is needed in the face of yet another anti-Black and white supremacist wave of attacks.
These are our neighbors, co-workers, and family members. What happens to them, will soon come for everyone. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
January 30, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Trump using playbook written by neo-Nazis.
Mass solidarity + support is needed in the face of yet another anti-Black and white supremacist wave of attacks.
These are our neighbors, co-workers, and family members. What happens to them, will soon come for everyone. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Mass solidarity + support is needed in the face of yet another anti-Black and white supremacist wave of attacks.
These are our neighbors, co-workers, and family members. What happens to them, will soon come for everyone. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
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The Los Angeles Police won’t enforce California’s mask ban on ICE because it’s only a misdemeanor.
Entering the USA illegally is also merely a misdemeanor. But that’s the “crime” for which we’ve unleashed a secret army of armed MASKED goons to brutalize supposed infractors
Entering the USA illegally is also merely a misdemeanor. But that’s the “crime” for which we’ve unleashed a secret army of armed MASKED goons to brutalize supposed infractors
LAPD Chief announces they will not be enforcing the mask ban on ICE goons (1/29/26)
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The Los Angeles Police won’t enforce California’s mask ban on ICE because it’s only a misdemeanor.
Entering the USA illegally is also merely a misdemeanor. But that’s the “crime” for which we’ve unleashed a secret army of armed MASKED goons to brutalize supposed infractors
Entering the USA illegally is also merely a misdemeanor. But that’s the “crime” for which we’ve unleashed a secret army of armed MASKED goons to brutalize supposed infractors
Yep. Releasing them now, having a press conference saying, “We don’t know of any men who abused women,” as a demonstration of something continuing in line, while they expand and escalate on other fronts.
I think they might be releasing the Epstein files now *as* a distraction. (I read this entire particular file and can’t wrap my head around why they did. Did they just miss it?)
www.justice.gov
January 30, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Yep. Releasing them now, having a press conference saying, “We don’t know of any men who abused women,” as a demonstration of something continuing in line, while they expand and escalate on other fronts.
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I wonder how the Harper's Letter signatories are doing.
January 30, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I wonder how the Harper's Letter signatories are doing.
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with allies like this, how could the tech go wrong?
Trump, for example, has already illegally threatened to pull already awarded infrastructure bill broadband grant awards from any states that try to regulate AI, hold telecoms accountable, or do "woke" stuff like try to ensure minority communities have affordable access
Trump Admin Warns States They’ll Lose Billions In Broadband Grants If They Try To Make Broadband Affordable
The Trump administration is once again warning states that they risk losing billions of dollars in historic infrastructure bill grants — if they attempt to make the taxpayer-subsidized broadb…
www.techdirt.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:51 PM
with allies like this, how could the tech go wrong?
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“civil rights”
NEWS: Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Alex Pretti's death.
January 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
“civil rights”
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Was surprised how many people noticed the abundance of influencers WB invited to the WUTHERING HEIGHTS premiere. I used that to talk about influencers as celebrities, their lack of transparency on the pay for play model, and trying to be "honest" in their reviews.
thefilmmaven.com/wuthering-he...
thefilmmaven.com/wuthering-he...
Wuthering Heights Might Have Gone Mad With Influencers and People Are Noticing
This is the first time I've noticed people bringing up how many influencers went to an event
thefilmmaven.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Was surprised how many people noticed the abundance of influencers WB invited to the WUTHERING HEIGHTS premiere. I used that to talk about influencers as celebrities, their lack of transparency on the pay for play model, and trying to be "honest" in their reviews.
thefilmmaven.com/wuthering-he...
thefilmmaven.com/wuthering-he...
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Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.
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Jesus.
Tucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.”
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson Walk Into a Saudi Real Estate Forum
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Jesus.
Gets things done... like sex crimes.
January 30, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Gets things done... like sex crimes.
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My review of her film
Dawn Porter’s WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS, featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates, is a powerful piece of investigative filmmaking about injustice by three Black Baltimore men.
My latest #Sundance2026 dispatch for @ebertvoices.bsky.social is that, TIME AND WATER, and ANTIHEROINE.
My latest #Sundance2026 dispatch for @ebertvoices.bsky.social is that, TIME AND WATER, and ANTIHEROINE.
Sundance 2026: When a Witness Recants, Time and Water, Antiheroine | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
On three docs from the Premieres section of Sundance.
www.rogerebert.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:20 PM
My review of her film
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Director Dawn Porter just said “abolish ICE” before her Sundance screening of WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS. She was met with a giant roar from the crowd.
January 28, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Director Dawn Porter just said “abolish ICE” before her Sundance screening of WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS. She was met with a giant roar from the crowd.
American Exceptionalism is a straight up delusion. A shared delusion, a cultivated delusion, but a delusion all the same.
January 30, 2026 at 5:20 PM
American Exceptionalism is a straight up delusion. A shared delusion, a cultivated delusion, but a delusion all the same.
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“I don't know, I don't have answers to those questions” sure does give me full confidence in the FBI
January 30, 2026 at 5:16 PM
“I don't know, I don't have answers to those questions” sure does give me full confidence in the FBI
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Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
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AI is gonna say you're a terrorist and that's good enough for them. If you didn't think this was the real reason they've been all in on data scraping and AI you have your answer now. They want AI with their thumb on the scale to be the arbiter of truth
“ICE considers ‘an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify [to be] a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship – including a birth certificate – if the app says the person is an alien.’”
ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mobile Fortify lets agents obtain vast amounts of information on anyone by scanning their face
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:02 PM
AI is gonna say you're a terrorist and that's good enough for them. If you didn't think this was the real reason they've been all in on data scraping and AI you have your answer now. They want AI with their thumb on the scale to be the arbiter of truth
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Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
January 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.