Rob Liguori

In case anyone is wondering, crude oil prices are up nearly 30%.

This week.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

A lot of us have watched Old Yeller, sir.

Some people are positively allergic to good news.

As much as I share your antipathy for the Zep, it’s easy to admit what a great drummer Bonzo was.

How many other video games were a plot point in maybe the greatest sitcom of all time??

This is an amazing story and if it happened to me I would dine out on it for the rest of my days.

Frogger and Galaga should be in ahead of every other game. They were pioneers!

Grocer, cobbler. And both worked for Hamilton Propeller during the war.

Union today, union tomorrow, union forever. Organized labor is the backbone of our economy and the MOST IMPORTANT employment right that we have as Americans. Solidarity all the way! #1u

PACK THE INBOX: Today we flooded email boxes of @nytimes.com management to let them know we are committed to all five of our priorities. We want to see them come to the table ready to negotiate seriously on all of them.

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I'm just a small-town researcher but I'm pretty sure the SEC has some thoughts on the concept of "materiality."

The dead-eyed photo isn't helping, either.

Was listening too. What a moment.

My latest, a collaboration between @propublica.org + @nytimes.com, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine.

The gift link leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by Julia Whalen:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...

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So many weird things here, like “the undisputed head of postrevolutionary Iran.” Is WSJ also confusing Khamenei and Khomeini like Markwayne Mullin and others have?

Volkswagen "Pink Moon" YouTube video by Alan Pafenbach

The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999
youtu.be/_-kqUkZnDcM?...

I fell in love with someone at least partly because of this ad. (I was in college.) We would literally ride around in my Jetta and listen to Nick Drake.

A good move on your part.

Once again practicing the saxophone instead of watching the news. If this keeps up I’ll sound like Trane by the end of this year.

I’m willing to predict that Trump takes a victory lap.

A short video of some of the process.

Five people in a modest kitchen, standing and sitting around a countertop where meat is being pressed through an ancient grinder to fill cow intestines for soppressata. Your humble correspondent is in the center, wearing a red apron and orange wool hat as I manipulate a fresh “soupy.”

60 or so soppressata hanging from two wooden rods in a curing room, which is really just a concrete basement with a window for airflow.

Made soppressata today, a family tradition that goes back more than a hundred years, at least. Trust me when I tell you this stuff is delicious.

Radiohead Tells Trump’s Homeland Security to ‘Go F— Yourselves’ After Song Used in ICE Video Radiohead has told DHS and ICE to 'go f--- yourselves' after their song 'Let Down' was used in a video blaming immigrants for violence..

Been a fan since 1993. Radiohead never lets me down. variety.com/2026/music/n...

Laughing at "written in a fit of pique." My brother in Christ, if you only knew how long and arduous the process is to get a magazine story from idea to publication...

Black and white photo of the jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon. He is in profile, leaning back on a chair, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and a porkpie hat. His tenor sax hangs from his neck, upright, and he's smiling as wide as can be.

Remembering my most significant influence on the saxophone, Dexter Gordon, on the 103rd anniversary of his birth. No one did it like Long Tall Dexter; his approach to the sax was maybe the most humanlike of anyone who's ever played.

Ah that sucks. Good luck with regular sale!

I have been listening day by day to the '97 European run, and they are a really outstanding set of shows. Those three Sydney Ellis songs are amazing -- Phish turns into a straight-ahead blues band and pretty much kills it.