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Emma writes songs ☘️
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Brummie/Irish searcher of solace in Andalucia. Singer/songwriter of country/Americana songs of love and defiance.
Writer of one book...so far too.
Owns an old camper van and a conscience.
Anti-fascist #AVFC Rotterdam original! Huge Rugby fan too.
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Emma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · Nov 5
If I'm going to get a five star review, I'm chuffed that it's in the Morning Star!
Maybe give my songs a listen?
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/subv...
Subverting Americana
Emma Gee FlowersSongs of Love and Defiance(Self-Released)⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
morningstaronline.co.uk
emmagee.bsky.social
Rosie is thinking "oh great we still have to walk up there", (or maybe that's me).
Large white dog with Spanish castle in the background
January 15, 2026 at 9:32 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
We should all be learning this.
January 15, 2026 at 7:39 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
It's only another 90 minutes in the Avé back to Madrid. 😂
Football scores
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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callumgr1874.bsky.social
This is mental. Someone in his team made a chat gpt error, that's not a stackable offence for the police chief who came to the correct decision.

The power of Israel to lobby and the ineptitude of our corrupted politicians is astounding, embarrassing and a threat to actual democracy.
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 19h
BREAKING: Home sec Shabana Mahmood says she does not have confidence in West Mids police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban.
January 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
emmagee.bsky.social
With Europe almost certain to capitulate to Trump (it's only about getting "the optics" right to sell it), this song now has a European feel to it.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=fmwq...
Something in the Air
YouTube video by Emma Gee Flowers - Topic
music.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
I've never had any problems uploading videos of my own songs to YouTube.
Today I got a copyright claim, essentially by me (via my distributor).
Any ideas how I can upload my own song to a video without this nonsense?
January 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
emmagee.bsky.social
This is not just a lunatic president, it's a root and branch dismantling of what we have considered to be essential learning for decades.
January 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
If the only way you think you can communicate with your voters is to use X, you’re an incompetent politician.
joxley.jmoxley.co.uk John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d
Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.

None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
January 13, 2026 at 8:51 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
I wrote the lyrics for my first book, then recorded it.
It's a plea to look after the marginalised and downtrodden everywhere- so obviously not fashionable!
"Don't Turn Away".

emmageeflowers.bandcamp.com/track/dont-t...
Don't Turn Away, by Emma Gee Flowers
from the album Socially Distant
emmageeflowers.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
If this guy is the great hope of the US, you need a new great hope.
rmac.bsky.social Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d
Governor Gavin Newsom speaks out against a proposed initiative to tax California billionaires: “This will be defeated — there’s no question in my mind... I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Newsom Vows to Stop Proposal to Tax Billionaires in California
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
It's my birthday in a few weeks and I know it's normal to think everything is going to shit as we get older- but everything REALLY IS going to shit.
January 13, 2026 at 7:44 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
Remember the, "are we the Baddies now?" sketch?
Well, if you stand firmly behind Netanyahu and Trump, I think we are.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
UK backs US power play for Greenland's elusive minerals
As the Trump administration openly discusses purchasing or seizing Greenland, UK officials have carefully avoided confrontation.
www.thecanary.co
January 13, 2026 at 7:24 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
I've released a lot of songs, all really well produced, featuring great musicians, and yet, I never get much feedback.
It's possibly because I don't play live enough, I don't know.
Social media doesn't seem to work.
Anyway, it's all out there if anyone is interested.
January 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
emmagee.bsky.social
When I said anyone, I didn't mean them obviously.
We never get a decent draw at all.
emmagee.bsky.social Emma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 2d
Despite the bravado, I don't want the Blues.
Other than that, anyone at VP.
January 12, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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hboomer.bsky.social
Something grotesque about the excessive hype and glitz of the Golden Globes at the best of times, but even more so in the context of Trump’s US
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.

We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
‘If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security’
January 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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premnsikka.bsky.social
Curse of Private Equity.

Vets under pressure to increase revenue,

Six companies control 60% of the UK's pet-care market

Prices up by 63% between 2016 and 2023.

Vets pressurised to meet financial targets by offering costly tests and treatment options.

Govts do nothing. Now handing the NHS to PE.
Vets under increasing pressure to make money for corporate owners, BBC told
Questions have been raised about whether the pet-care market is giving customers value for money.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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junehall.bsky.social
The boys all suited and booted and waiting for dad to come home with the girls. Then it’s their turn for the fields.
January 12, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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Who is one of my favourite people from the other place.
She has the best politics and the best dogs too.
Lovely videos from her dog walks with her lovely collies.
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
emmagee.bsky.social
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@junehall.bsky.social
Who is one of my favourite people from the other place.
She has the best politics and the best dogs too.
Lovely videos from her dog walks with her lovely collies.
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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pulsa8.bsky.social
This could be the biggest statement worldwide to date. if there were empty stadiums nationwide in America because Trump is the Antichrist & everyone believes it. Would he discount tickets with a going out of business "blowout" sale.

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott USA Fifa
‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasing...
www.rawstory.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
emmagee.bsky.social
Hi @nasheridan.bsky.social
We were talking about Dublin.
This is my song (recorded in Clontarf) song about the changes in Dublin, through the eyes of Jimmy Rabbitte from The Commitments.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LK...
The Ghost of Jimmy Rabbitte
YouTube video by Emma Gee Flowers - Topic
music.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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henryjfoy.ft.com
“They’re conspicuously silent” said one EU official. “Rutte was supposed to be the man Europe could rely on to be our Trump-whisperer. But he wasn’t supposed to be this quiet.”

Nato yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of ally Denmark or Greenland

as.ft.com/r/f125cd10-6...
Nato silence on Donald Trump’s Greenland threats rattles European allies
[FREE TO READ] Military alliance yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark
as.ft.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:18 AM
emmagee.bsky.social
I'm rarely angry after we've won, but we've been kicked off the park
Palhinha is a thug.
January 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM