Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your daily politics drop from the ladies of Puck: Tara Palmeri, Tina Nguyen, and myself. (Also, be sure to check out the occasional cameo from Peter Hamby, who broke some news yesterday.) And please, take our reader survey if you haven’t yet.

Last but certainly not least, do not miss the inimitable Baratunde Thurston’s moving essay on the murder of Tyre Nichols. Wow.

Also, apparently some guy is giving a speech tonight? I’ll be watching but I do find these big speeches so hard to pay attention to. My mind literally slips off the words as they’re being uttered, even as I’m trying mightily to hook into them. I don’t have an attention deficit, but I do feel that these kinds of speeches, written by professional speechwriters and delivered by professional politicians—and then commented on by professional commentators—are designed to be that way: specifically vague and full of smoke signals and gauzily non-binding. It is the Coach bag of speeches: aspirational and kitschy and immediately last season. And so, you will not find me...

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