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Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Hey! It’s the Surge, Slate’s weekly update on what’s happening in America’s halls of power. Who’s slapping backs and calling out nicknames? Who’s walking with their head down hoping not to be noticed? And who’s struggling to get a miniature Pringles can out of the flap at the bottom of the halls-of-power snack machine? (The last one is always Pete Hegseth.) This week we have a tragedy in Texas that potentially could have been avoided, Elon Musk’s computer...