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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter bumpily sliding face-down into your inbox after another week of terror.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2023

The Australian dollar moved bumpily sideways also, with traders focused now on an appearance by central bank chief Philip Lowe before a parliamentary committee.

From Reuters • Feb. 15, 2023

Part 2 no longer seems as bumpily melodramatic as it did in New York.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2022

It features only one top-10 player, No. 9 Justin Thomas, and he just spent Saturday riding bumpily across six bogeys and two birdies for a 74 that dropped him seven shots off the pace.

From Washington Post • May 21, 2022

I’d step up onto the bus at my street corner at the end of 17 Janvier, doze bumpily through half an hour of predawn, then open my eyes in another world.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver