Jimmy Kimmel firing: How the FCC chairman became this week’s main character.

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that may be locked up this time next week for our “hate speech” (our jokes that don’t land). Fair.

It was another terrible week of news in a tense country at its breaking point, but at least we’re about to get some decent weather. That means that furloughed federal workers will be able to take some nice walks during next month’s government shutdown. Kash Patel attempted to save his job by yelling at Democrats. Donald Trump is looking to give TikTok to some of his friends.

Before we start: Let’s say goodbye to sometimes Surge author Ben Mathis-Lilley, who just left Slate after