Robert O’Shaughnessy

The Readback: Crypto craziness Podcast Episode · The Daily Punch · 07/19/2025 · 9m

Listen to @brendanpedersen.bsky.social process the chaos that was Crypto Week and I talk about the Federal Reserve’s tennis court. What more could you want? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

After the creation of Metro in 1967, Metrorail began operations and took its first trip on THIS DAY in 1976! 🚇 From then to now, we've come a long way and traveled many miles together. Celebrate with us by taking a trip to/from your favorite station!

DC local leaders are calling on Washingtonians to call Senators to “not cut DC’s local budget.” At this point, though, any changes to the House-passed CR will lead to a government shutdown Friday night.

Not loving the new ABS system MLB is testing out. It might drive some crazy, but isn’t the fallibility of the human umpires part of the game? Also, if speeding up the pace of play is important, this isn’t doing that.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority CEO Jack Potter says the plan remains to reopen DCA at 11am

A welcome change on Metro:
The “see something, say something” announcement they play in stations is back to be voiced by a human.

Now do the 7000-series trains

Official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump

It’s giving Frank Underwood

Karine Jean-Pierre in last press briefing of the Biden administration: You can expect more pardons.

#NoMa shooting: DC Police Chief Pamela Smith says the medical examiner has not arrived on the scene yet. The shooting occurred at around 5am.

MPD now saying three officers shot and one suspect is dead.
This shooting occurred within a couple blocks of Two Rivers Public Charter School, a Pre-K - 8th grade school.

MPD reports a shooting on the 300 block of Florida Ave. NE, near the NoMa Trader Joe’s. Two officers injured and the “subject also shot.”
Violent crime like this is unfortunately not that unusual in NoMa, one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the city and the country.

Good morning from the nation's capital

MARC service is suspended for tomorrow in addition to VRE. No commuter rail service in the nation’s capital due to forecasted snowfall. Amtrak is also cancelling some trains on the Northeast Corridor.

Football game or Pop Tarts infomercial?

Folks, please don’t paint your nails on the Amtrak. No one is keen to smell that. I can’t believe this isn’t obvious to everyone.

Text from Partiful saying “Y'all asked for it... update your app to see your 2024 Partiful party stats now: m.partiful.com/to/afterparty” and the reply “No I didn’t”

To be crystal clear… it’s a helicopter. The answer is almost always helicopter, plane or star.

A helicopter flying over townhouses in D.C.

A helicopter flying over townhouses in D.C.

A helicopter flying over townhouses in D.C.

A helicopter flying over townhouses in D.C.

Woah! Is that a drone?!?! 😱🤯😲

Also, look at ADS-B data. This will show the positions of most civilian aircraft over the U.S. globe.adsbexchange.com

Not sure who needs to hear this, but some of you do:
It’s normal for manned aircraft to have their landing lights on when below 10,000 feet. It’s also normal, and often required, for these airplanes to have red and green navigation lights on the wings. And it’s normal for them to have strobe lights.

We live in the Golden Age of Television.

Whoa — GM shuts down its Cruise robotaxi business www.wsj.com/business/aut...

With 41 days left in his presidency, Joe Biden is set to give a speech at the Brookings Institution on his “economic playbook.”

The writing on this NFL Simpsons broadcast is brutal

The December rush: 2 weeks left Podcast Episode · The Daily Punch · 12/09/2024 · 11m

Listen to The Daily Punch: Congress has 11 days to avert a government shutdown. Plus: Former Sen. Cory Gardner will become the chair of the board of the Senate Leadership Fund. And the latest from The Canvass. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In White House press briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre says Rep. Jim Clyburn encouraged President Joe Biden to pardon Hunter Biden.

Screenshot of a tweet by @councilofdc showing people standing on sidewalks near Farragut West Station wearing sweatshirts with the numbers 40 and 41 respectively. The text of the tweet is: “Spotted near the White House. Because we’re in DC, I assume they are fans of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush?”

The D.C. City Council is dabbling in street photography over on Twitter

places to go/not go in SF: bsky.app/profile/eric...

Powerful earthquake rattles Northern California, tsunami warning issued An earthquake has shaken Northern California. Reports of damage were not immediately available.

SF Chronicle reports the transbay tube (this is the big train tunnel that connects SF and Oakland, for those unfamiliar) is closed www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

One correction to a previous pool report. While POTUS took no questions and did not speak with your pool today, he did answer one question yesterday from a photojournalist who asked about South Korea. POTUS said "I'm just getting briefed on it." That was outside of the hearing of your pooler but for what it's worth, those six words constitute POTUS's entire interaction with any journalists on this trip. Peter Baker NY Times

Biden had one interaction with a journalist during his entire trip to Angola. (Screenshot from White House press pool report)