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Tommy Craggs
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Writer and editor. Late of "Game Theory With Bomani Jones" on HBO, Mother Jones (no relation), HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, Deadspin, etc. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com. Email: tcraggs22@gmail.com.
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The mom in question:
A very 1980s tableau in which a little kid in a Superman shirt is standing on the lawn of a small house he could never dream of affording as an adult, next to a woman in a cream-colored knee-length dress, belted with cap sleeves, who will never tire of asking him when he's finally going to write a book. They appear happy.
October 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Full podcast is here! pod.link/1055903427/e...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Regardless of how you feel about the above takes, do subscribe to the podcast. It's from @redford.bsky.social and @alexlaughs.bsky.social and @defector.com, and they make cool things: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.  Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Also, I got to talk about the early-aughts Sacramento Kings and my iron rule of sports fandom: always root for pretty.
October 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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A screenshot from the article that reads: "The idea of full employment has been too long in the hands of the technocrats for any of the old cultural feeling to endure. White paper by white paper, the country’s Poindexters have defined full employment down to the point that it is now understood as a statistical benchmark of acceptable immiseration, some unemployment being necessary, so they say, to the long, twilight struggle against inflation. But true full employment always meant just that: no involuntary unemployment. Everyone has a job, and there is a job for everyone. And the Squad Assembles movies, even the bad ones, are some of the last remaining cultural expressions of that ideal. They are a dream of ~everyone fits somewhere~, costarring Ludacris."
June 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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FYI, these movies include "The Guns of Navarone," "The Dirty Dozen," "The Great Escape," "The Sting," any of the "Ocean’s" movies, the "Fast & Furious" series, etc.
June 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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“Cletus safaris,” Ben
April 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The call on the field is that the totality was incompletely grasped before hitting the ground
"It’d be a mistake to dismiss the conspiracy business altogether. Since we’re all so freely handing out theories these days, here’s one for you: Far from the misfiring of irrational minds, the conspiracy thinking of sports fans is serious stuff, even rational. It’s a kind of layperson’s structural analysis—an earnest effort by regular folks to grasp the ever more recondite workings of the leagues they love to watch. They may not always be right in the particulars, but neither are they wrong, exactly."
February 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM