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Val Caruso

@glassinsession.bsky.social
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#Wine Educator, speaker, host/producer of Glass in Session® #podcast, DipWSET, CWE, FWS #CorkDork 🍷 #AudiobookNarrator/ VoiceOver Artist USAF Retired 🇺🇸 Owned by a Nebelung🐾 #cat 🎧 www.glassinsession.com/podcast

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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are A LOT of things an AMERICAN president should never do, but ‘Murica elected an incandescently ignorant criminal sociopath who is anything BUT patriotic. So here we fuqing are. #votethemallout
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#caturday Cat(ch)-up 😹 #cats #catsofbluesky #Nebelung #Nebelove 🩶🐾
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I got today's Blird Game in 🐦🐦🐦! That's a 2 day win streak! 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 app.academy.allaboutbirds.org/blird #birds #birdsky
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Blird Game | BirdWise ID Quizzes
A daily bird identification game. Identify today's blurred bird in less than 5 guesses.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I got today's Blird Game in 🐦! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 app.academy.allaboutbirds.org/blird
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Blird Game | BirdWise ID Quizzes
A daily bird identification game. Identify today's blurred bird in less than 5 guesses.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cool. Redraw your wine maps ... & it's still Lake Ontario. #wine daily.sevenfifty.com/what-to-expe...
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What to Expect from 7 Potential New AVAs | SevenFifty Daily
From Minnesota to New Jersey, seven proposed AVAs aim to distinguish emerging regions by climate, soils…
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I got today's Blird Game in 🐦! That's a 2 day win streak! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 app.academy.allaboutbirds.org/blird
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Blird Game | BirdWise ID Quizzes
A daily bird identification game. Identify today's blurred bird in less than 5 guesses.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I got today's Blird Game in 🐦🐦🐦! 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 app.academy.allaboutbirds.org/blird
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Blird Game | BirdWise ID Quizzes
A daily bird identification game. Identify today's blurred bird in less than 5 guesses.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I got today's Blird Game in 🐦🐦🐦🐦! ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 app.academy.allaboutbirds.org/blird
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Blird Game | BirdWise ID Quizzes
A daily bird identification game. Identify today's blurred bird in less than 5 guesses.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#ETTD We have to explain it with crayons to the mouth breathers who keep voting for this trash.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I got today's Blird Game in 🐦🐦🐦🐦! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 app.academy.allaboutbirds.org/blird
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Blird Game | BirdWise ID Quizzes
A daily bird identification game. Identify today's blurred bird in less than 5 guesses.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎧 In which I discuss blackbirds 🐦‍⬛, the Merlot grape🍇, & nursery rhymes🧸 as well as regular grape gabbing on wine styles, history, etc. #wine #merlot #winepodcast #wineandbirds #winegrapes glassinsession.substack.com/p/merlot-bla...
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Merlot, blackbirds, and nursery rhymes
or “Who’s not drinking any fuqing Merlot?!”
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Bree Fram @breefram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I joined @juliacurlee.bsky.social to talk with UK Channel 4 about Trump pushing qualified people out of government and demonizing trans people. As we wrapped, Mike Johnson sent the House home, stalling a vote to impeach Hegseth. No need to sit back down. We'd already said plenty about his failures.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Serving up face on a #caturday 🐾🩶 #nebelung #cats #catsofbluesky
Fluffy grey cat with green eyes serving up face
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This makes it a “must watch” then! 🔥 Kinda like when absinthe was “interdit” when I was wandering Carcassonne in 2010; absinthe moved right to the top of my “must drink “ list. 🍸(It became legal the following year.)
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Another summer sipper while watching about 12 #pygmynuthatch fluffballs. Mostly Merlot with some fun white 🍇blended in, from Long Island. #rosé #nywine #backyardbirdwatching
A bottle & a glass of rosé wine on an outdoor table 
Pygmy nuthatch on a branch
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Watching #birds & drinking #wine - just me, the #bushtits , & a Croatian #rosé … & #backyardbirds
A glass of Croatian rosé wine next to the bottle, beside a pair of binoculars A couple of Bushtits in a pine tree
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Malta: the Wine, the Grapes, and the Bird glassinsession.substack.com/p/malta-the-... #wine #winepodcast #MalteseWine #WineHistory #podcast #MalteseFalcon
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Malta: the Wine, the Grapes, and the Bird
... and even a film
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Truth.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Keep naming things for an ignorant buffoon who deserves no honor, because he has no honor. A vile, pusillanimous poser with zero integrity or moral character, has served no one but himself, and only destroys what great men & women built deserves to be remembered as what he is: a fuqing disgrace.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Now Asti DOCG has a pink, bubbly DOCG-level sibling: Asti Rosato DOCG (moscato + brachetto) 🥂 mailchi.mp/societyofwin... #wine #asti #bubbly
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Welcome to the World, Asti Rosato!
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Little guy getting laser therapy, #acupuncture, & of course, lots of treats (& probably revenge) on #whiskerwednesday. 🐾📍🩶 #seniorcat #nebelung
Gray fluffy cat sitting on a lap with acupuncture needles 
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
About being alive these days 🐾
A two-panel comic featuring two black cats in an interview. In the first panel, one cat holds a microphone and asks, “Mr Whiskers, do you feel prepared for all of this?” The other cat cheerfully replies, “Of course not!” In the second panel, Mr Whiskers opens his enormous round eyes and adds, “I suspect none of us were designed to process all of whatever it is that’s happening right now.”
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
They call it a CATalog for a reason. 🐾🩶 #CatsOfBluesky #nebelung #ififitsisits
Gray fluffy cat with green eyes sitting on a catalogue looking up at a camera
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#Caturday #Nebelung shamelessness shilling for (always deserved) treats 🩶🐾 #catsofbluesky #cats
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bird-themed wines? Yes, bird nerd meets corkdork in this re-release of Montefalco Sagrantino: Wine, Birds, & the King of Everything. Listen to Glass in Session® wherever you find your #podcast joy. #wine #WineHistory #WinePodcast #Montefalco #Sagrantino substack.com/@glassinsess...
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Montefalco Sagrantino
Wine, Birds, and the King of Everything
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Stop after “Trump says…” It doesn’t matter what Trump says. Trump lies as he breathes.
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 11/08/2026
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Tuesday, August 25
4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The bestest little helper 🐾 #werk #petme #nebelung #podcat #mondaymotivation #catsofbluesky
Sweet fluffy gray cat in front of a laptop … on a lap 
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It’s only right that #InternationalCatDay falls on a #Caturday … which is pretty much every day.🐾 #Nebelung #CatsOfBlueSky
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cassidy caves. So only GOP senators voting No are Murkowski and Collins. Never send a man to do a woman's job.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m sorry, but the ignorant , pusillanimous draft dodger lacking ANY core values embodied by those who serve/served honorably, who cloaks his vile, morally bankrupt, decrepit sleazy self in the honor of others because he has absolutely NONE? Can fuq right off with this sick #stolenvalor sh*t. 🖕
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Federal judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit against #Colorado over voter rolls Good. These vile cretins have no business getting their grubby little corrupt dickbeaters on our sensitive voting files. Federalism and all that … coloradosun.com/2026/08/04/f...
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Federal judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit against Colorado over voter rolls
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department failed to justify access to unredacted Colorado voter records and dismissed a lawsuit with prejudice
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Smokey is very invested in playing the Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Wingspan. #catshelping #nebelung #wingspanboardgame #whiskerwednesday #catsofbluesky #cats
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Their words mean nothing. But go on …
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just poured granola into my #coffee. My #cat has every right to feel superior, more so today than usual. #Monday #Morning
Grey fluffy cat on lap.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Well this is fun! 🎉A light, fruit-forward, “zingy” red for summer! A blend: Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (aka Tempranillo), & Touriga Franca am quaffing quite happily today…reminding me #Portugal is still on my #wine travel bucket list & Glass in Session® editorial calendar. 🍷🎧 #iglisboa #vihno
A bottle of red Portuguese wine, and a wine glass
A bottle of red Portuguese wine with label and wine glass
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#Caturday #smug #Nebelung #CatsOfBlueSky
Fluffy grey cat looking smug
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Pairing today’s #lunchwine - a 2023 rosé from #Ukraine 🇺🇦- with the white winged dove that landed on our feeder hook today. 🍷☮️ 🕊️ (No, I’m not in prison (yet) I’m just looking down off our deck through the railing; also, not eating the dove-just looking at it) #slavaukraini #birdwatching
Bottle of rosé wine from Ukraine by the producer SHABO
 A white winged dove
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sounds like a bunch of pinko commies are in the White House & the tech bros are … say it with me … all in on the commie takeover of our government? ☎️
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This morning’s #momentofzen while birdwatching ⛰️ #zenaf #colorado #rainbowgulchtrail
Mountain stream & wildflowers + sunshine sparkling on the water
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A #Caturday #Nebelung eclipse🐾🌖 … or Nebeclipse 🐾🩶 #catsofbluesky
Grey fluffy Nebelung cat mostly for in the sun
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I went there, this season on Glass in Session®, since all these countries are in the news ... let's see what they are drinking! glassinsession.substack.com/p/wine-on-th...
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Wine on the Brink and Lessons in Resilience: Poland, Lebanon, Albania, Armenia, and Iran
...plus an Arak chaser to bring Season 22 of Glass in Session® home
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Meg Maker @megmaker.com · 22/07/2026
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J is for Jurançon
Scintillant sweet and dry wines from South West France
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
He’s got his catnip magic shroom & he’s ready to - eh hem - pawty. 🐾🩶 #caturdaynightfever #nebelung #caturday #portraitmode #catsofbluesky
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An exploration of the rich history and culture of wine and grape-growing in Iran, the regions, and the hope that the Iranian diaspora offers us … in a glass. #Iran #wine #WineHistory #WineEducation #WineGrapes #WinePodcast glassinsession.libsyn.com/once-upon-a-...
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Glass In Session® Winecast: Once upon a Wine Grape Iran | S22E5
An exploration of the rich history and culture of wine and grape-growing in Iran, the regions, and the hope that the Iranian diaspora offers us … in a glass. Resources from this episode: Books:  ...
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1st breakfast at 0400 #zerokibblethirty 🐾🩶 #nebelung #cattitude
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump will lie about the 2020 election. Trump will lie about the 2026 election. But, if Trump claims powers he does not have, or tries to undermine free and fair election, we will sue and we will win. If you doubt me, take a look at my record in beating him and his allies in court.
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Out of town blissfully avoiding the news. Before diving back in I leave you with my ringtone…🎶 acquired during the 1st orange idiot regime, & reinstated for this disaster the dumbest/most selfish Americans thought was a good idea. In honor of Lady G, www.jonathanmann.net/idiot
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Lindsay Graham Sings The Words, "Trump Is A Fucking Idiot" — Jonathan Mann
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Val Caruso @glassinsession.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is not sunrise. ☀️ This is a pissed off sun, thrusting itself into our smoke-filled sky, asking the same thing I do every morning: What the hot holy f*ck, people?! #sunrise #colorado #wildfires
A flaming red sphere of sun rising above the tail of 
a Southwest Airlines aircraft
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