The 78th Street story would be a great prologue

"Mister President, tear down that ballroom!"

QOTW: "How inspiring to be reminded of what fun and potential profit there is to be had when one ditches one's phone for a morning, and embarks on an outing with friends." Thank you, @caity.bsky.social

The serious way to pursue this would be to pick a pantheon of "anti-secession heroes of the South," and fund a group to create a systematic education campaign. Resolutions honoring their birthdays, street renamings, school curricula, and of course statues. That's their playbook.

Fixing Penn doesn't fix the railroad organization problem. Fixing Penn would be the downstream result of fixing the railroad organization problem.

wha?

I had a similar ranking in mind (with Lander at #2), but with @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social unfathomable endorsement of Cuomo she needs to come off my list.

Late addition here. In the subsubgenre of animals learning parenting after the apocalypse, read Kira Buxton's Feral Creatures. But first you should really read Hollow Kingdom -- no parenting, but fun read!

He was always always always more obsessed with the optics of being in charge than in doing the actual work to ask the state's agencies what needed to get done and providing the leadership to deliver. nypost.com/2021/08/22/c...

Don't forget the time he overruled state and city public health experts for the sake of a photo op appearing to be in charge on Ebola.

This is incredibly disappointing. By no stretch of the imagination was Cuomo a good-government governor. @citizensunionny.bsky.social

And perhaps quasi-biblical stories as well, such as the Book of Enoch.

Not sure this is entirely on target for your question, but when your daughter is a bit older, you both may enjoy the excellent Hilda series (books and video). Ideal for kids 7+ who are open to a bit of danger. Deals beautifully with single mom & adventurous daughter relationship.

On the optics front, Dems should lean in to saving the sacred, dignified space of the White House from Trump's "frilly gold stickers that make us look weak and silly." If the parties were reversed, Fox would go to war against this.

Battery-electric seems like a good solution for dealing with stretches that may be difficult to electrify. Did LIRR make the right choice to abandon study of this technology?