Hello! Just a reminder that we have a chat scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday. Since we last talked, I wrote about the Sean “Diddy” Combs verdict and “Alligator Alcatraz,” and offline, I could not stop following the Fourth of July drama on one of my local neighborhood email lists. Discussion: Is it more American to light fireworks, to call the police on your neighbors for lighting fireworks, or to accuse your neighbors of being narcs if they call the police to report lit fireworks? (What is the weirdest drama to ever bubble up on your local email list? Tell us everything. Or tell us about something else preoccupying or fascinating you.)

The world remains at least 50 percent terrible. Let’s make sense of it together.