Balls & Strikes
Jay WillisThe official newsletter of Balls & Strikes, each week from Jay Willis
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Todd Blanche Will Promise Anything Republican Senators Ask
In February 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing the White House Faith Office, which “advises” the administration on religion-adjacent policy initiatives and is led by a televangelist who has publicly compared...
The Good Stories Are Always Worth It
One of the more frustrating aspects of working in media in 2026 is that it is impossible to solicit pitches anymore without getting inundated with the laziest, most obvious AI-generated dreck you have ever laid eyes on. When I tried back in...
I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges
If you are a United States senator, there are so, so many things you could be doing at any given moment. Your phone is pinging constantly with pleas from literally dozens of people who would like you to do something for them, ideally immedi...
Anti-Trans Activists Know What the Supreme Court Will Let Them Do Next
In the paragraph that follows, I am going to briefly subject you to something that, if I were not writing a newsletter, I would not ask my worst enemy to read: insights from the mind of Riley Gaines, whose ability to parlay a fifth-place fi...
A Brief History of This Bizarre Pro-Management PSA, Starring the Dallas Cowboys and Young Clarence Thomas
In the early 1980s, a handful of Dallas Cowboys players starred in what is, even in goofy athlete public service announcement-adjusted terms, one of the goofier athlete public service announcements I have ever seen. “Everybody wants to be a...
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