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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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.
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It's important to understand how Epstein leveraged rape culture bullshit to keep himself acceptable to many in his circle. He painted himself as having been arrested for hiring prostitutes who just happened to be underage. Because his peers were morally bankrupt, they saw this as a venial sin.
it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
January 31, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It's important to understand how Epstein leveraged rape culture bullshit to keep himself acceptable to many in his circle. He painted himself as having been arrested for hiring prostitutes who just happened to be underage. Because his peers were morally bankrupt, they saw this as a venial sin.
Yeehaw fuck the law.
ICYMI: Most new IACC appointees are autism pseudoscience has-beens who were never taken seriously by the autism research community, & were shunned by the media after the Disneyland measles outbreak showed the public health consequences of anti-vaccine disinfo.
And now RFK Jr. has resurrected them.
And now RFK Jr. has resurrected them.
Welp, we have a new IACC (Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee), the US government’s advisory panel for autism issues. It is entirely planted with worst case pseudosciencers who will “Fight Against Autism”—and ignore autistic rights and needs. Just awful news.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
January 31, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Yeehaw fuck the law.
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I find it kinda astonishing all these people who have spent so many years in public life, many of them media/ PR pros, didn’t think to get ahead of these stories. Did they really think it’d never come out? Bowles & Weiss never thought to mention it to ‘Free Press’ subscribers?
Not only is that the very same Nellie Bowles, but she pops up 17 different times in the files!
January 31, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I find it kinda astonishing all these people who have spent so many years in public life, many of them media/ PR pros, didn’t think to get ahead of these stories. Did they really think it’d never come out? Bowles & Weiss never thought to mention it to ‘Free Press’ subscribers?
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so all we agree he didn’t kill himself right
Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal
Less than two weeks before convicted abuser was found dead, lawyers met with Manhattan federal prosecutors
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:13 PM
so all we agree he didn’t kill himself right
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Truly shocking* how all the Important Men in academia, the media and business whom women said were really sex pest centrists - at best! - for many years now all turned out to be outright pedophile Nazis.
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Truly shocking* how all the Important Men in academia, the media and business whom women said were really sex pest centrists - at best! - for many years now all turned out to be outright pedophile Nazis.
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I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?
oaklandside.org
January 31, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
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This is a great question. I think for me it is about teaching them to handle experiences of boredom, frustration, and confusion. Sitting with uncertainty, finding your way through an opaque image, letting go of your need to be better than the film, etc., are all skills that can be taught.
If there’s a short answer, how do you teach someone how to watch a movie? It strikes me even with that sentence that our language is not up to the present task: “how to watch a film” has always meant interpretation, not “how to look in one consistent direction for about 100 minutes”
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
This is a great question. I think for me it is about teaching them to handle experiences of boredom, frustration, and confusion. Sitting with uncertainty, finding your way through an opaque image, letting go of your need to be better than the film, etc., are all skills that can be taught.
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This is basically a Canadian version of Bill Clinton’s right wing crime bill in the 90s and it led to a surge of Black and Latinx people being unjustly and arbitrarily incarcerated and allowed for the prison industrial complex to grow. #cdnpoli
As First Ministers met this week, we were united in calling on Parliament to pass C-14, our new Bail and Sentencing Reform Act, quickly.
Our new government tabled this bill to keep repeat and violent offenders out of our communities — and the sooner it passes, the better.
Our new government tabled this bill to keep repeat and violent offenders out of our communities — and the sooner it passes, the better.
January 31, 2026 at 7:48 PM
This is basically a Canadian version of Bill Clinton’s right wing crime bill in the 90s and it led to a surge of Black and Latinx people being unjustly and arbitrarily incarcerated and allowed for the prison industrial complex to grow. #cdnpoli
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MINNESOTA: Mexican immigrant hospitalized with a shattered skull and broken face — Trump’s ICE goons claim he “purposefully ran into a brick wall”
NURSE: “NO WAY”
apnews.com/article/immi...
NURSE: “NO WAY”
apnews.com/article/immi...
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
MINNESOTA: Mexican immigrant hospitalized with a shattered skull and broken face — Trump’s ICE goons claim he “purposefully ran into a brick wall”
NURSE: “NO WAY”
apnews.com/article/immi...
NURSE: “NO WAY”
apnews.com/article/immi...
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OPINION: "This was not just any building. Beth Israel, Jackson’s only synagogue, has long stood as one of Mississippi’s few Jewish congregations, serving generations of families," Austin Reid Albanese writes.
Opinion | When a Synagogue Burns, Memory Must Speak
Austin Reid Albanese writes about how the community is supporting the Beth Israel Synagogue after it caught fire.
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January 31, 2026 at 6:45 PM
OPINION: "This was not just any building. Beth Israel, Jackson’s only synagogue, has long stood as one of Mississippi’s few Jewish congregations, serving generations of families," Austin Reid Albanese writes.
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We always knew they were just Nazis. The scary thing is that a large proportion of US Jews joined their political coalition specifically to target Palestinians
They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
January 31, 2026 at 6:21 PM
We always knew they were just Nazis. The scary thing is that a large proportion of US Jews joined their political coalition specifically to target Palestinians
Yes! YES! YES!
January 31, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Yes! YES! YES!
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Bingo ringo! I was unimpressed with a lot of the politics I was reading back in the day, so guess tf what?
January 31, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Bingo ringo! I was unimpressed with a lot of the politics I was reading back in the day, so guess tf what?
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One 13-year-old Utah patient is now traveling to Colorado to receive care at a private pay clinic.
“We at least found a new place,” her mom said. “But every escape avenue just keeps being closed off.”
“We at least found a new place,” her mom said. “But every escape avenue just keeps being closed off.”
University of Utah suddenly ends all remaining health care for transgender youth, pointing to expected bans
University of Utah doctors have also been instructed they are not allowed to help coordinate hormonal care for patients elsewhere in the state, where it might still be an option.
www.sltrib.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM
One 13-year-old Utah patient is now traveling to Colorado to receive care at a private pay clinic.
“We at least found a new place,” her mom said. “But every escape avenue just keeps being closed off.”
“We at least found a new place,” her mom said. “But every escape avenue just keeps being closed off.”
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one thing you never want to have to realize is that you were really underestimating the number of pedophiles
January 31, 2026 at 5:35 PM
one thing you never want to have to realize is that you were really underestimating the number of pedophiles
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This is where I'm at
February 17, 2024 at 3:44 PM
This is where I'm at
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The problem was 50% “teen fascist floods the internet with racist hate” and 50% “Washington Post calls this ‘potty-mouthed’” 😡
January 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The problem was 50% “teen fascist floods the internet with racist hate” and 50% “Washington Post calls this ‘potty-mouthed’” 😡
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The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
January 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
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Always remember that the same MAGA influencer class who pushed for years that trans people and drag queens where "grooming" children helped to promote and white wash these demons.
January 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Always remember that the same MAGA influencer class who pushed for years that trans people and drag queens where "grooming" children helped to promote and white wash these demons.