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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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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3 more years of this and the DOJ is going to be staffed by Nick Fuentes fans with correspondence school law degrees. Who don't need to pass the bar because of "the emergency."
Breaking on MS NOW:
Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.
The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.
Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.
The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.
January 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM
3 more years of this and the DOJ is going to be staffed by Nick Fuentes fans with correspondence school law degrees. Who don't need to pass the bar because of "the emergency."
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“Doesn’t take a genius” is always my goal audience 🫡
Our favorite horror sage, @philnobilejr.bsky.social, writes on the obliviousness to incremental danger in this week's @fangoria.bsky.social Terror Teletype. Doesn't take a genius to unravel the implications. "Boiled Frogs and Boogeymen" indeed.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:49 PM
“Doesn’t take a genius” is always my goal audience 🫡
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Well-known Gaza journalist Bisan Owda has been banned from TikTok, she says, just days after the finalization of the company’s sale to U.S. investors.
TikTok takes down Gaza journalist Bisan Owda’s account mere days after US deal
Owda’s account had 1.4 million followers, she said.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Well-known Gaza journalist Bisan Owda has been banned from TikTok, she says, just days after the finalization of the company’s sale to U.S. investors.
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Brewery workers, bar owners, and union organizers in MSP are setting the mark on how to actually care for their community, rather than just invoke as a buzzword. At @vinepair.com, I reported how their work doubles as a playbook for colleagues nationwide whose homes may face MAGA sieges soon enough.
The Twin Cities’ Beer Scene Is Showing the Rest of the Industry How to Fight Back
When I reach Drew Hurst, he’s running late to work. “I’m taking the call from my car right now because there’s an ICE. stop on my road on my way in, which, y’know, I pulled over to film,” the presiden...
vinepair.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Brewery workers, bar owners, and union organizers in MSP are setting the mark on how to actually care for their community, rather than just invoke as a buzzword. At @vinepair.com, I reported how their work doubles as a playbook for colleagues nationwide whose homes may face MAGA sieges soon enough.
The reason they hate antifa, is that antifascist activists have been doing everything possible to alert the public to the danger of this Christian white nationalist movement for better than a decade, and they've been unmasking the people behind it.
New: Antifa unmasked a new generation of fascists in the Trump era. Now it's exposing ICE.
"Predators don’t get anonymity."
My latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"Predators don’t get anonymity."
My latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Antifa used to unmask neo-Nazis, now it’s exposing ICE: ‘Predators don’t get anonymity’
Following in a long American tradition of identifying fascists, a network of leftists has set out to name and shame Trump’s immigration agents
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January 30, 2026 at 3:53 PM
The reason they hate antifa, is that antifascist activists have been doing everything possible to alert the public to the danger of this Christian white nationalist movement for better than a decade, and they've been unmasking the people behind it.
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BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
January 30, 2026 at 3:21 PM
BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
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“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
I would be a really bad idea to focus solely on Lemon here too. It will send the message that they can get away with trying to intimidate with lesser known independent journalists, who are least likely to be cowed into silence because of their independence.
These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I would be a really bad idea to focus solely on Lemon here too. It will send the message that they can get away with trying to intimidate with lesser known independent journalists, who are least likely to be cowed into silence because of their independence.
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This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
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a disgrace, plain and simple
The CCA goes bust, entering liquidation
All staff are being made redundant and operations are ceasing with “immediate effect”
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January 30, 2026 at 3:10 PM
a disgrace, plain and simple
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SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
The full user guide here:
The full user guide here:
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2026 at 2:50 PM
SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
The full user guide here:
The full user guide here:
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NEW YORK (AP) — Judge rules that Luigi Mangione should not face the death penalty if convicted on federal charges in CEO's killing.
January 30, 2026 at 3:17 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Judge rules that Luigi Mangione should not face the death penalty if convicted on federal charges in CEO's killing.
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I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Charging a Black journalist under the KKK Act for reporting on a protest is a whole new level of fucked up.
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Charging a Black journalist under the KKK Act for reporting on a protest is a whole new level of fucked up.
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jfc
the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji
January 30, 2026 at 3:10 PM
jfc
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I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon.
January 30, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon.
And… I just dropped my wireless mic in the toilet.
a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a face
Alt: a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a face
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January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
And… I just dropped my wireless mic in the toilet.
Proper gift link. If you’re not listening to Tressie McMillan Cottom, you’re doing yourself a disservice in the moment we’re in.
January 30, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Proper gift link. If you’re not listening to Tressie McMillan Cottom, you’re doing yourself a disservice in the moment we’re in.
Really having a very hard time trying to write about film and television right now, in any way related to the sense of how the “market” works.
I could write about the way different films speak to our current moment, but that’s about as much as my brain will currently allow.
I could write about the way different films speak to our current moment, but that’s about as much as my brain will currently allow.
January 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Really having a very hard time trying to write about film and television right now, in any way related to the sense of how the “market” works.
I could write about the way different films speak to our current moment, but that’s about as much as my brain will currently allow.
I could write about the way different films speak to our current moment, but that’s about as much as my brain will currently allow.
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SEND HELP is full of vibrant personality, packed with all of Sam Raimi's signatures. It’s a raucous, goopy good time at the movies. Read the full Bloody Disgusting review: bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3931...
‘Send Help’ Review – Sam Raimi Is Back In Fine Splatstick Form In Survival Thriller Comedy
Few directors have as much fun splattering their cast with as much goop and viscera as possible as director Sam Raimi. One can practically picture the amused filmmaker guffawing behind the camera in p...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:28 PM
SEND HELP is full of vibrant personality, packed with all of Sam Raimi's signatures. It’s a raucous, goopy good time at the movies. Read the full Bloody Disgusting review: bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3931...
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On this day in Horror History, MANIAC premiered in New York City in 1981.
January 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
On this day in Horror History, MANIAC premiered in New York City in 1981.
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The memories of Alex Pretti and Renee Good deserve to be uplifted. So does Keith Porter and all the Black, Latino and Asian people dead at the hands of ICE/CBP. Naomi Bethune writes about these differences in attention.
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Responses to ICE Violence Reveal a Racial Double Standard - The American Prospect
The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good are getting national attention. The brutality against primarily Black, Latino, and Asian immigrants has not triggered the same outrage.
prospect.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The memories of Alex Pretti and Renee Good deserve to be uplifted. So does Keith Porter and all the Black, Latino and Asian people dead at the hands of ICE/CBP. Naomi Bethune writes about these differences in attention.
prospect.org/2026/01/30/i...
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I wondered if Alex Pretti might be concerned by Donald Trump declaring that his “stock has gone way down” but then I remembered that Alex was murdered in the street by ICE goons and the US President is a demented monster.
January 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I wondered if Alex Pretti might be concerned by Donald Trump declaring that his “stock has gone way down” but then I remembered that Alex was murdered in the street by ICE goons and the US President is a demented monster.