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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve finished reading — and will review — the top two books which are about the anti-democratic forces prominent throughout our country’s history . Gil Duran’s book is relevant given the threat posed by the Peter Thiel fascist mafia and the existential threat posed by AI. Evil under Trump is next

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

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Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke and Others Mourn Tom Stoppard www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t... I was fortunate to attend an in-person discussion with this wonderful, humane genius at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater on December 4, 1999. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to ask any questions.

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Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke and Others Mourn Tom Stoppard

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This plaque is posted at West Point. Alcoholic TV talk show chatterbox Pete Hegseth wants to court-martial Arizona Senator Mark Kelly for repeating what is written on it.

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Greed, racism, and violence to service both were slathered with exceptionalist propaganda to mask the ongoing self-dehumanization that continues to this day. Witness the election of Trump. First H. L. Mencken and recently Nancy Isenberg identified the result: rule by white trash for white trash

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#NoKings Marching east towards Independence Mall on Market Street Philadelphia

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#NoKings I liked this poster. Marching from City Hall Philadelphia

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Just returned from the No Kings protest running from Philadelphia’s City Hall east in Market Street until reaching Independence Mall. We were packed like sardines at City Hall and it took me an hour to get from the west side to the east and on to Market Street. Then things loosened up a bit.

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o... This is quite interesting and worth reading

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Opinion | The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

How the Kremlin kept Trump's businesses afloat whenever they teetered or failed. Everyone knows Trump hit a rough patch during the 2008 crash. Fewer know how Russians stepped in with cash to keep his projects going. This investigation maps out just how crucial those deals were for the Trump brand.

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How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business

After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

When I see, hear or read vacuous pontifications by House Speaker Mike Johnson, two images spring to mind: (1) Mr. Peabody’s pet boy, Sherman (Rocky & Bullwinkle), but without his spark of intellect, and (2) the southern white trash H. L. Mencken saw in The Sahara of the Bozart, Trump’s MAGA base.

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Five new studies to further refine my understanding of Colonial and U. S. History. Almost finished with The Great White Hoax (a series of hoaxes designed to reinforce white supremacy) and looking forward to reading Without Precedent and its exposure of evil Chief Justice John “Roger Taney” Roberts.

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9v... #20SongsByYear 1967 Johnny Rivers: Summer Rain Released in November, the song looked back at two major cultural events, the Summer of Love and ubiquitous Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band music. It reached #14 on the charts in early’68. My favorite by Rivers.

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Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Currently reading a biography of Octavia Butler, the great Black writer of science fiction, while enjoying her greatest work, the fascinating time travel novel, Kindred.

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

youtu.be/aBNIRyz_UBU #20SongsByYear 1967 Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade Of Pale Released in May, lead singer Gary Brooker propelled the group to #1 in the UK and #5 on Billboard. It became one of the anthems of the Summer of Love and eventually sold more than 10 million copies. Bach and Chaucer!

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PROCOL HARUM – A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Official Lyric Video

YouTube video by FLY Records

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

youtu.be/lgmkQMqAAN0 #20SongsByYear 1967 Sam & Dave: Soul Man Inspired by Black businessmen who placed signs reading “soul” on their shop doors and were thus spared during the Detroit riots that year, Sam & Dave were backed by Booker T & the MGs, including Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn, and hit #2

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Sam & Dave - Soul Man (Official Audio) - from STAX NUMBER ONES

YouTube video by Stax Records

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2025

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

youtu.be/BaNX_28o9oY #20SongsByYear 1967 The Monkees: Pleasant Valley Sunday By July, all the band members were actually playing their own instruments. The wicked social commentary, written by Garry Goffin and wife Carol King, gained my respect and also reached #3. The B-side was great: Words

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The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday 1967

YouTube video by Geert Mook

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

youtu.be/k_Cfhws_PzQ #20SongsByYear 1967 The Four Seasons: C’mon Marianne In February, Beggin’ was released. In April, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You was released and reached #2, In May, my favorite of all their many hits, C’mon Marianne was released and eventually reached number 9 in the charts.

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C'mon Marianne- The Four Seasons- Lyrics

YouTube video by Hailey Blogs And More

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

youtu.be/74nJCrDtqWU #20SongsByYear 1967 Donovan: Mellow Yellow Arranged by John Paul Jones (later of Led Zeppelin) with background reveling by Paul McCartney, the song about a yellow ladies’ vibrating dildo called mellow yellow reached number 2 on the Billboard chart in 1966, but went into ‘67

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Mellow Yellow Single Version] By Donovan With Lyrics

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

youtu.be/rblYSKz_VnI #20SongdByYear 1967 The Beatles: Hello, Goodbye In a year of Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, the great Sgt. Pepper album, All You Need Is Love, Baby You’re A Rich Man, Magical Mystery Tour, Fool On The Hill, and Your Mother Should Know, this single was released in November.

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The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

youtu.be/S43YhQ_eGTw #20SongsByYear 1967 Bee Gees: New York Mining Disaster 1941 Their first U.S. hit, released in April, benefited from play by DJs who mistakenly thought they were the Beatles in disguise. Boston radio stations hyped them, giving five songs extensive play in 1967. I was there

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Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941

YouTube video by BeeGeesVEVO

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

youtu.be/ykN6Cz05bLM #20SongsByYear 1967 Keith: 98.6 James Barry Keefer, stage name Keith, was born in 1949 in Philadelphia. 98.6, with backing vocals by The Tokens, reached number 7 on Billboard in late 1966 and carried over into 1967 and thus became my first favorite song of that halcyon year

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98.6 - Keith

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

youtu.be/KvTHPoNa7kI #20SongsByYear 1967 The Marvelettes: The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game Written and produced by Smokey Robinson with lead vocals by Wanda Young-Rogers, this song of ultimate seduction hit the charts in the spring of 1967

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The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

youtu.be/ws0DLWApHko #20SongsByYear 1967 Country Joe and the Fish: Fish Cheer/I -Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag The band formed in 1965 in Berkeley and performed this soon to become iconic anti war anthem at the Monterey Pops Festival during the Summer of Love; and later at Woodstock

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The Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To Die Rag

YouTube video by Country Joe and the Fish - Topic

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnIF... #20SongsByYear 1967 Eric Burdon: Monterey A major Summer of Love event was the Monterey Pop Festival during June, memorialized here by Eric Burdon. This December recording followed Burdon’s earlier paean to The City by the Bay, titled San Franciscan Nights.

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Monterey - ERIC BURDON and The ANIMALS (Single Stereo Version 1967)

YouTube video by Renato Baroni

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHb... #20SongsByYear 1967 Scott McKenzie: San Francisco Putting aside the sensation caused by the Beatles and their monumental Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, it was McKenzie’s San Francisco that captured the nation’s Summer of Love imagination, and mine.

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Scott McKenzie - San Francisco

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n... Scuzball Trump must still pay $83 million for defaming and sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll.

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Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Trump Administration Live Updates: Epstein Estate Turns Over Birthday Drawing Apparently Signed by Trump www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... So scuzball (pedophile?) Trump has lied again! Even sued the Wall Street Journal to bolster his lie!

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Epstein Estate Turns Over Birthday Drawing Apparently Signed by Trump

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Me and Carol, the love of my life, in December 2023 Our song #20SongsByYear Is 1967’s Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, by the Casinos

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZ6... #20SongsByYear 1967 The Turtles: Happy Together R.I.P Mark Volman

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Happy Together

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Barbara Neuhoff @barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1gk... In August 2017, I saw Roger Waters perform “Pigs” in Philadelphia. It was very much like this October 2016 performance in Mexico. It seems that, before most people, Waters understood POTUS to mean Pig of the United States.

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Roger Waters - Pigs (Three Different Ones) [w/ subtitles]

YouTube video by Eme

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Walter Uhler @waltcu.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Just reread The Sellout, funniest piece of great literature I’ve ever read. Currently reading Gerald Horne’s The Counter-Revolution of 1776 (and widespread Black violence against slavery) and David Walker’s Appeal. Will finish both Black AF History and The Light of Truth in August. Sample Anthology

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