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Trump Iran: The world waits with bated breath to see which version of the president we'll get next week. Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Hello and welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s weekly real-time effort to write a prequel to the 2024 movie Civil War. I’m Ben Mathis-Lilley, and I’ll be filling in until Labor Day for Jim Newell, who has taken a temporary leave of absence after seeing that Donald Trump has installed two 88-foot flagpoles on the White House grounds. “I’ll be danged if I can’t make a million-foot flagpole,” Jim said, retreating into his garage, where a great deal of clanging, banging, and typing “how to build a flagpole” into the YouTube search bar has since been heard. God bless America! This week we have, well—frankly, we have some bad stuff. The situation is pretty no-good out there, ranging from extrajudicial-ish harassment of elected officials to the senseless murder of elected officials to Kristi Noem having a mysterious medical event. But first: A potential international catastrophe involving nuclear weapons. (I warned you it was all bad!) 1. Donald Trump (peaceful moods) Cooler heads prevail? Just over a week ago, Israel launched an attack against Iran using missiles, aircraft, and drones. One ostensible purpose of the attack was to set back Iran’s nuclear program, which
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