Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act. Donald Trump says domestic violence should not be considered a crime. Can the two parties find common ground?

Just up on Substack, after a months' long writer's block: "Process Notes: I Know How You Plagiarized That Semester," which draws from more prompts in my old notebooks. Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity! danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...

Fun to be included in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social special issue on (what else?) The Mall pinehillsreview.com/2025/09/01/a...

Make sure you subscribe (it's free!) to Here's Where the Story Ends, the Substack where ex-professor Daniel Nester (that's me!) writes about starting over. danielnester.substack.com

Just up on Substack: "Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)." Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no... Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.

let me give you this background story, because I love it and people usually only know this screenshot

Not certain if this has already been cited, but I found a citation while reading into this for a book called How to be Inappropriate by Daniel Nester. I bought the book (thank you for the weekend reading!). Here is what he says:

Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center." Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...

what a gorgeous incorporation of natural science terminology into poetry 🙉🪱

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I have at long last shown up on bluesky, for poetry reasons (among others), so here is a poem I wrote (among others).

The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡

New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!

"The Priest Comes Over for Pasta" by Lexi Pelle

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: steak with ketchup, a can of diet coke, then go on camera to scream at an ally for being "disrespectful" on tv. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

“Cinnamon” by Conor Gearin

“Viva Zapata” by Camila Valle

Kanye West is selling T-shirts with Swastikas on them. But what is he really trying to say?

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

Today's horrific Elise Jordan opinion: Musk's destruction of federal institutions "reminds me a lot of the Biden Administration's Afghanistan withdrawal. It needed to be done; it was done terribly... What we're seeing here, though, is a long-overdue correction."

Just up on Substack: “Fuck it, I’m leaving early.” "I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out." More at danielnester.substack.com

“The Winter Drive” by Kelly Gray

“Retracing Our Steps” by Michael Robins

“Chickens in 1998” by Ren Wilding I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.

"Omen" by Sara Iacovelli

Amazing video that Questlove and Maya Rudolph put together to showcase all of the music artists that have appeared on SNL. Here’s a clip of Duran Duran mixed with …

A reminder as Trump talks about ending "chronic disease": RFK Jr., likely the next head of HHS, uses that blanket term to describe autism, which is not a chronic disease.

Here’s to You, Mr. Zuckerberg Manliness maven Mark has the worst perm since Art Garfunkel, and most of his fans don’t have much carnal knowledge. But if he ever becomes president, you can bet that Scarborough fair will come to him. by Maureen Dowd

Voices Carrie Unctuous Underwood’s country crooning will kick off a 4 year long episode of The Man Show, and I sure don’t mean Aimee. I can’t wait Til Tuesday when this inauguration noise is over. by Maureen Dowd

Gildan?! Really?! @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social

Just up on Substack: "Collecting My Failures," a post about 8-tracks, failure, and abandoned ideas. Read at danielnester.substack.com

Oh, for fuck's sake. The #BrokenTimes is further sanewashing Trump's totalitarian imperialism and war-mongering against NATO allies by having Dealbook assess the market value of Greenland. This is not a newspaper. It is a sideshow.

“Agnes Was Here” by Susan Cronin

“Eat shit” used to be a famously off-color retort. Now it’s advice that many right-wing influencers are giving their followers.

I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then I learned that Vivek Ramaswamy hated ‘Friends’.

Just up on Substack: "A Die Hard Epiphany." "This year, I watched Die Hard to forget that I don’t have to confess to my mom that I’m watching that Bruce Willis movie again. I will miss hearing her sort of good-hearted disapproval." More at danielnester.substack.com

"Through World Tour mode, the developers made a world that feels like it exists beyond my presence." Alex J. Tunney explains how Street Fighter 6's Word Tour Mode offers a new viewpoint to the series: unwinnable.com/2024/08/30/a...

My three-year-old was watching CNN when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why did the nice man with the bad haircut who likes hoodies give money to Trump's inauguration?" And when I told her "either because he's afraid of Trump or because he is also a fascist" she started crying.

When you randomly meet the hosts of #celebritymemoirbookclub at your friend's gig in the East Village.

We wanted to understand what’s going on in South Korea. So we talked to three Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby’s in Harrisburg

I really don’t see how chasing the Duke boys for years qualifies this guy to run the IRS.

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

"Mused"? Really, #BrokenPost? No, he threatened. He is threatening you. No amount of your owner's kissing of Trump's orange butt will protect you and other journalists. Take this seriously. Treat it seriously. #HeadlinesMatter

Just up on Substack: "I Miss My Students Already." "At first, coming up from Brooklyn, the upstate students seemed like aliens. They didn’t grow up on good pizza.¹ I just couldn’t figure out my students’ deal." More at danielnester.substack.com _________________________ ¹ I said what I said.