“Mami at Her Vanity,” by Julia Alvarez

Poetry by Julia Alvarez: “I watched as she tried on faces / before an evening out.”

The New Yorker

Beautiful Art Deco woman doing make up in front of Emile Jacques Ruhlmann Vanity.

#artdeco #beautifulwoman #makeup #vanity #emilejacquesruhlmann #aiart #aigenerated #nightcafe #nightcafeArt #nightcafeCreation

The tunnel has been under construction for more than a year, with the #FederalGovernment expected to fund about $12 billion of its cost. But the #Transportation Dept said in October that it would withhold #funding until the project could be reviewed to make sure that its contracts followed with new federal rules targeting diversity, equity & inclusion [#DEI] programs — or you know until they serviced Trump’s ego 🙄.

#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath #Trump

It includes the construction of a new two-track tunnel connecting #NewYork & #NewJersey, which are linked by 116-year-old tunnels in such poor condition that #trains are often delayed, creating a bottleneck.

The new tunnel will be crucial to avoiding a disruption in #rail service around New York City that would have drastic effects on the national #economy.

#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath #Trump

But withholding money from the tunnel over the names of #PennStation, the busiest train station in the country, would be a significant escalation of the effort to ensure #Trump’s “legacy”, tying it to a project that would have massive ripple effects across the East Coast.
The project, known as #Gateway, sits at the heart of the Northeast Corridor #rail route that runs from Boston to Washington & is the most-used passenger line in the #US.
#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath

Beyond the #KennedyCenter, #Trump & his allies have stamped his name on the US Institute of Peace & public-facing federal projects like investment accounts for American children & TrumpRx, a website that supposedly will help Americans buy medication directly from drugmakers. [He also added his name randomly throughout the State Department building.]

#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath

#Trump & Schumer met at the White House last month to discuss the frozen funds.

Though he is the top #Senate #Democrat, Schumer has NO direct #oversight over either transportation hub & rebuffed the request, acc/to 2 of the people.

Trump, known for affixing his name to NYC high-rises & Atlantic City hotels, has appeared to be undertaking a similar drive on a national scale during his second term.

#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath

#extortion & #vanity

Again I say, I bet he pees on everything too.

Officials Pressed Schumer to Rename #PennStation & #Dulles International Airport for #Trump

Admin officials told the top #Senate Democrat that Trump would release frozen #funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.

#law #MafiaState #EgomaniacalSociopath
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-schumer-penn-station-dulles-airport-renaming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station and Dulles Airport for Trump

Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.

The New York Times

A quotation from Cicero

But there is in fact nobody who is so hostile to the Muses that he would not readily allow his own deeds to be immortalized in verse.
 
[Neque enim quisquam est tam aversus a Musis, qui non mandari versibus aeternum suorum laborum facile praeconium patiatur. ]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 9 / sec. 20 (62 BC) [tr. Guinach (1962)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #accolades #ego #glory #immortalization #poetry #praise #pride #publicity #renown #vanity #verse

Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 9 / sec. 20 (62 BC) [tr. Guinach (1962)] | WIST Quotations

But there is in fact nobody who is so hostile to the Muses that he would not readily allow his own deeds to be immortalized in verse. [Neque enim quisquam est tam aversus a Musis, qui non mandari versibus aeternum suorum laborum facile praeconium patiatur. ] (Source (Latin)). Other translations:…

WIST Quotations
Look upon my garish statue, ye crypto-loons, and cringe.
"At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf. For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the center of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era."
https://archive.ph/vXVwa
#vanity #luncacy #cryptobros #memecoin