# my favorites (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover my favorites. Page: Feed: --- ## [Heather Cox Richardson ](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825714216928411648) _2026-08-23 · Wait - what ?_ Heather Cox Richardson August 22, 2026 (Saturday) On Tuesday, August 18, during a debate for a runoff to win the South Carolina Republican senatorial primary, Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) answered a question about Taiwan and the importance of the South China Sea by saying: “I’m not that informed on national security.” She paused, and added: “But I do support the military.” The audience reacted… ## [Wagner Jorge :: 46th and Broadway, NYC :: 1937 :: Color WJ.](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825712712594194432) _2026-08-23 · Wait - what ?_ Wagner Jorge :: 46th and Broadway, NYC :: 1937 :: Color WJ. \* \* \* \* \[Essay\] The Tune of Things Is consciousness God? by Christian Wiman A 1980 case study from England depicts a young man with an IQ of 126, excellent performance in his university classes, normal social skills, and basically no brain. Trees can anticipate, cooperate, and remember, in the ordinary sense of those terms. Albert… ## [Life in Hell :: Matt Groening](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825699884790333440) _2026-08-23 · Wait - what ?_ Life in Hell :: Matt Groening ## [I should like to save the Shire, if I could — though there have been times when I thought the…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825699799371333632) _2026-08-23 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : I should like to save the Shire, if I could — though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don’t feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that… ## [Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel, ‘Evidence’, 1977](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825699776107610112) _2026-08-23 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel, ‘Evidence’, 1977 \* \* \* \* "Suddenly: the word most used by Dostoevsky. Somebody told me that. Some Dostoevsky expert. Suddenly. As though any kind of action could be drawn into words: Suddenly music. Suddenly turning. Suddenly silent. Suddenly. As though I never saw the process. Everyone in the old house is sick but me. Silence, except for the… ## [dreaminginthedeepsouth: The evening star would be high in the...](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825699744479363072) _2026-08-23 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : The evening star would be high in the sunset sky when it was still broad daylight. That evening star fascinated me. It was in some way very exciting to me … I had nothing but to walk into nowhere and the white sunset space with the star. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) Evening Star No. IV Watercolor on paper, 191 \* \* \* \* “On the edge of the prairie, where the sun had gone… ## [Nick Anderson](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825699625797353472) _2026-08-23 · Wait - what ?_ Nick Anderson \* \* \* \* Political News for August 22 Dear Everybody, Here’s the news for August 22. This is John Stith, filling in for Connie Willis for August 21-22-23. Natalie Harp, Trump’s human printer and blankie is remaining in the news, but it’s mostly repeating the disturbing and stupefying things already reported. But her fanatical devotion to Trump is emblematic of the MAGA phenomenon in… ## [\* \* \* \*](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825688033144848384) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : \* \* \* \* That summer I did not go crazy but I wore very close very close to the bone. — Dorothy Allison, f rom “To the Bone” \[oofpoetry\] \[Alive On All Channels\] ## [It’s probably safe to say that most Southerners with tomatoes in their garden (or with generous…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825687813873860608) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : It’s probably safe to say that most Southerners with tomatoes in their garden (or with generous friends who grow tomatoes) mark the official beginning of summer with their first tomato sandwich. It’s a delicious kickoff to a season of produce goodness, a ritual enjoyed often and with great enthusiasm while tomatoes are at their peak. It’s one of the simplest sandwiches you… ## [Adrienne Rich. “Natural Resources”](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825687744442433536) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ Adrienne Rich. "Natural Resources" ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VePRLhY1Ut5G) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Ian Sanders](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825678968602738688) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : Ian Sanders When Things Fall Apart Pema Chodron I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.” Somehow, even before I heard the Buddhist teachings, I knew that this was the spirit of true awakening. It was all about letting go of everything.… ## [\[my front garden this morning\]](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825677963148312576) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : \[my front garden this morning\] \* \* \* \* THE ORDINARY WEATHER OF SUMMER In the ordinary weather of summer with storms rumbling from west to east like so many freight trains hauling their cargo of heat and rain, the dogs sprawl on the back steps, panting, insects assemble at every window, and we quarrel again, bombarding each other with small grievances, our tempers flashing… ## [\[street art\]](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825621236442873856) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : \[street art\] + "Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. … She … insisted afterwards … that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other…" Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita ## [ “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825620658955370496) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself" Female 91 years old Ontario Can ada \[via: alive on all channels\] ## [“The first revolution is when you change your mind.”](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825620567805886464) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : “The first revolution is when you change your mind.” — Gil Scott-Heron ## [Pierre Jamet (Français, 1910-2000), La rose et l'oiseau, 1938.](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825608092382363648) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ Pierre Jamet (Français, 1910-2000), La rose et l'oiseau, 1938. \* \* \* \* “With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room ## [M’kay, y’all, so this weekend, the heart of DC is gonna be crazy AF because the Orange Menace is…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825608062753767424) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ M’kay, y’all, so this weekend, the heart of DC is gonna be crazy AF because the Orange Menace is turning the streets into a damn Hot Wheels track. This fool ordered a pack of nearly one-ton IndyCars to race 147 laps for a total of 250 miles around the National Mall. TF! These cars will blast down Pennsylvania Avenue at 185 mph in a 25-mph zone. I did the math. That’s 271 feet per second. Some more… ## [de Adder](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825607760498638848) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ de Adder \* \* \* \* Amid an August of mounting danger, a frivolous, oblivious president Now the polymathic Trump is dabbling in naval architecture. August 21, 2026 Opinion George F. Will This August features a stunning divergence. The world becomes more dangerous as U.S. governance becomes more frivolous. The president is miffed with South Korea because of, among other insolences, that nation’s… ## [The big story that’s all over the place this afternoon is the firing of the editor of Stars and…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825607104804093952) _2026-08-22 · Wait - what ?_ Stars stripped The big story that’s all over the place this afternoon is the firing of the editor of Stars and Stripes, the quasi-governmental semi-independent newspaper that is provided for free to service members around the world. The paper’s publisher, who had recently announced his retirement at the end of September, was fired yesterday. The editor in chief, Erik Slavin, told the Associated… ## [\* \* \* \*](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825598310156042240) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ \* \* \* \* “What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?“ "I don’t know. My… my code of morals, perhaps.” “Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?” “Comprehension.” ― Albert Camus, The Plague ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CcYnStCRLRUf) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Jim Wright ](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825598278594904064) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion Jim Wright "Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere." They can't live where they were assigned. There's no process to… ## [Laura Makabresku :: @KamilaKansy](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825588447399084032) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ Laura Makabresku :: @KamilaKansy \* \* \* \* “I would leave everything here: the valleys, the hills, the paths, and the jaybirds from the gardens, I would leave here the petcocks and the padres, heaven and earth, spring and fall, I would leave here the exit routes, the evenings in the kitchen, the last amorous gaze, and all of the city-bound directions that make you shudder, I would leave here the… ## [Trump via Truth Social: “Today, I concluded a deal to substantially lower the price of ground beef…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825580553681158144) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ Trump via Truth Social: "Today, I concluded a deal to substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families. As everyone knows, under President Biden, beef prices soared at their fastest rate and the American beef herd fell to its smallest size in modern history. As we work to rebuild this herd and help our ranchers, for the next 90 days, the United States will allow up to… ## [from an interview with Anne Carson](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825580542679531520) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ improvisedliturgy : from an interview with Anne Carson ## [A fascinating essay by Thomas L. Friedman illustrating how new technologies - drones, AI, mid-flight…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825580538142343168) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ A fascinating essay by Thomas L. Friedman illustrating how new technologies - drones, AI, mid-flight maneuverable missiles, computer malware, information, and the like - have completely changed the face of armed conflict. And the fact that state, non-state, and even individual actors can access some of these makes the world a more dangerous place. I would like to develop one point not touched on… ## [New York, KangHee Kim](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825561227441881088) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ New York, KangHee Kim \* \* \* \* The personal touch I have fifteen cloud stamps, it says on the back cirrus means curl of hair, altocumulus lenticularis look like UFOs, I have put hair, an alien invasion, on the envelope bearing the letter you’ll read under the sky of your living room, crappy light fixture sky, falling plaster sky, have snugged in the envelope fifteen pictures of my hand holding… ## [ONLY POEMS :: @onlypoemsmag](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825561216177029120) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ ONLY POEMS :: @onlypoemsmag "Give us time. Please, just a little longer in these bones." ## [Mary Louise Ruehr](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825561190380011520) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ Mary Louise Ruehr HOLY CRAP! Did you know this?! + SELLING AMERICA TRUMP’S $25 BILLION ART HEIST Donald Trump has begun a controversial mass liquidation of federally owned art and historic property, a move that has stunned preservationists and cultural institutions across the country. The General Services Administration, which oversees the government’s fine arts collection, has already terminated… ## [Great Actors Are More Believable Than Democrats](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825561046257483776) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ Great Actors Are More Believable Than Democrats Aug. 20, 2026 By Connor Lounsbury Mr. Lounsbury is a Democratic media consultant. One actor was fabulous. Her choices were specific, her listening rapt, her emotions authentic. Opposite her was an actor who made you double-check the program to see if she’d ever even been in a play. Her lines were recited, not spoken. Her emotions were indicated, not… ## [Trump and his personal law firm (the Department of Justice) are busily spreading disinformation…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825560750743552000) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ Resistance is not futile. It is the path forward. Trump and his personal law firm (the Department of Justice) are busily spreading disinformation about the 2026 midterms. To be clear, the disinformation is false and easily disproven. But Trump doesn’t care if his lies are transparently false. He knows that those lies will gain traction on social media and right-wing propaganda outlets like Fox,… ## [Prime Noise-Cancelling Picks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/U9PwgtSVeAVl) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Browse Prime-eligible, 4-star-and-up noise-cancelling earbuds with fast shipping and deals ## [Vladimir Mishukov captures a poignant moment from the set of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s award-winning 2003…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825515907767025664) _2026-08-21 · Wait - what ?_ Vladimir Mishukov captures a poignant moment from the set of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s award-winning 2003 film The Return . \* \* \* \* “love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.” ― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk ## [Memphis Muse](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825500039819493376) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ Memphis Muse “There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.” –Alexis Carrel ## [Fotografia di Albert Watson Raining in ′′ The Road Ahead, Isola di Skye, Scozia, 2013](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825499994841825280) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ Fotografia di Albert Watson Raining in ′′ The Road Ahead, Isola di Skye, Scozia, 2013 \* \* \* \* Waiting There are no calls from the outside. Miracles are the perversity of literature. We should know that by now. Only that these never revealed connections of things lead us oddly on. Caesar’s legions entering Greenland ice, the scout far in front wanting to do battle where there are no enemies, never… ## [Here’s Preston Shipp with the facts. Stay safe, y'all: “The national debt is now over…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825499973250662400) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ Here's Preston Shipp with the facts. Stay safe, y'all: "The national debt is now over $40,000,000,000,000. The U.S. is spending more than a trillion dollars a year just on interest, which is more than it spends on defense. Remember in 2025, when the Baron of Bankruptcies promised he'd balance the federal budget? But thanks to his irresponsible, immoral tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy… ## [by Kate Pulley](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825499616417087488) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ by Kate Pulley \* \* \* \* i sat in the sun :: jane hirshfield I moved my chair into sun I sat in the sun the way hunger is moved when called fasting. \[poetrying\] \[Via “Alive On All Channels”\] ## [Rebecca Solnit ](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825499606028795904) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ Rebecca Solnit It's boring how everyone wants to talk about sex re: Trump and Natalie Harp, since Senator Ossoff's brief and effective declaration that Trump wants to build his ballroom and “travel with natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of qatar” rather than do his job. It's more consequential and sinister than that, in that Harp is the very embodiment of the… ## [Stonekettle Station](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825499208038727680) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ Stonekettle Station Jim Wright The White House account calls Trump "A lion among sheep" I don't think they've thought this through, or maybe they have. Trump regarding Americans as little more than prey, feeding on us to fuel his endless gluttony? Maybe that's exactly what they mean. But what then is the duty of the SHEEP? Is it not the duty of the herd to protect itself from predation? What then… ## [Between the veil III - Lara Cobden , 2023. :: British , b. 1971 - :: Oil and ink on panel, 29.5 x 21…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825497782959898624) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : Between the veil III - Lara Cobden , 2023. :: British , b. 1971 - :: Oil and ink on panel, 29.5 x 21 cm. \* \* \* \* “Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in… ## [Hélène Cixous, from Stigmata: Escaping Texts](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825487243000053760) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ Hélène Cixous, from Stigmata: Escaping Texts ## [\* \* \* \* ](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825423936482394112) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : \* \* \* \* “New Orleans and the moon have always seemed to me to have an understanding between them, an intimacy of sisters grown old together, no longer needing more than a speechless look to communicate their feelings to each other. This lunar atmosphere of the city draws me back whenever the waves of energy which removed me to more vital towns have spent themselves and a… ## [“The difference between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack.”](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825423217369939968) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ “The difference between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack.” — Winston Churchill ## [Mark A. Shryock](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825423209066266624) _2026-08-20 · Wait - what ?_ Mark A. Shryock THE BREAKING POINT OF AMERICAN POWER by Mark A. Shryock Written August 18, 2026 Years ago, at a media seminar in Paris, I had the chance to spend time with Flora Lewis, the foreign correspondent, and one thing she said has never left me. There is always a story behind the story. What you are handed at the press briefing is almost never the thing that actually happened. The thing… ## [Art: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825407192679284736) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ Art: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis \* \* \* \* "One has to be wounded in order to become a healer. This is the local image of a universal mythological motif, which is described in Eliade's book about the initiation of medicine men and shamans. Nobody becomes either one or the other without first having been wounded, either cut open by the initiator and having certain magical stones inserted into… ## [Image: ‘Mental Illness, Peter Rimar (Mural on the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery)](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825391477804941312) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ Image: 'Mental Illness, Peter Rimar (Mural on the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery) \* \* \* \* Collective Diseases of the Mind “As a psychologist I am deeply interested in mental disturbances, particularly when they infect whole nations. I want to emphasize that I despise politics wholeheartedly: thus I am neither a Bolshevik, nor a National Socialist, nor an Anti-Semite. I am a neutral Swiss and… ## [Photo by Edward W. Quigley, 1930s](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825390948356849664) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ Photo by Edward W. Quigley, 1930s \* \* \* \* “Growing up means growing out of the emotional reactive patterns that were laid down in childhood. I should mention that an important part of this work is learning how to hold our emotions and reactivity in a space of kindness and understanding. Beyond growing up, there’s a greater possibility as well—waking up. A loving relationship can also help us plug… ## [“It is easy, when people feel frightened and abandoned, for a demagogue to exploit those feelings of…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825390698357456896) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ “It is easy, when people feel frightened and abandoned, for a demagogue to exploit those feelings of despair for political gain. It is easy for that demagogue to translate fear into fanaticism, to shift extremism into the mainstream and market it under the guise of populism. By the time buyer's remorse hits, a new and more brutal political culture has arisen. A gaslit nation becomes engulfed in… ## [SodiumDream :: @sodiumdream](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825390407984857088) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ SodiumDream :: @sodiumdream \* \* \* \* There’s an idea in many space stories, that the cosmos is a place of transformation, a crucible in which things burn, and if humans venture out deep enough they also burn, and become more fully who they are—that even in the wildest reaches of space, there we are, most pure and dark and bright and realised, somehow coming home. Our bodies come from stars and we… ## [Everything Trump touches seems to wither and dies because he understands nothing as a trust. To him,…](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825390132932820992) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ Everything Trump touches seems to wither and dies because he understands nothing as a trust. To him, everything is property: the White House, the Justice Department, the armed forces, the presidency, the National Mall, the truth and eventually the country itself. If something can be branded, he brands it. If it can be sold, he sells it. If it resists him, he attacks it. If it dies beneath the… ## [Edward S. Curtis, Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon—Qágyuhl, c.1914.](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825380987572731905) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ dreaminginthedeepsouth : Edward S. Curtis, Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon—Qágyuhl, c.1914. \* \* \* \* “The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.” - Federico Garcia Lorca ## [“ You’ll be too raw for some. You’ll be too loud , too big, too fierce, too quiet, too deep………](https://dreaminginthedeepsouth.tumblr.com/post/825377333952331776) _2026-08-19 · Wait - what ?_ " You'll be too raw for some. You'll be too loud , too big, too fierce, too quiet, too deep…… These are not your people." — S.C. Lourie