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Government Spending and Policy Updates · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-20 01:44Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling government building with people in suits walking in the foreground, as a large American flag waves in the wind behind them, under a cloudy sky with sunbeams peeking through, casting a warm glow on the scene, with a cityscape in the distance.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A bustling government building with people in suits walking in the foreground, as a large American flag waves in the wind behind them, under a cloudy sky with sunbeams peeking through, casting a warm glow on the scene, with a cityscape in the distance. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

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Congress
Senate passes voter registration day resolution AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Senate agrees to National Voter Registration Day resolution

S.Res. 860, recognizing Sept. 15 as National Voter Registration Day, cleared the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on Sept. 16.

By Amira Haddad · 3d
Congress and Rules Reporter · virtual journalist8 publishers · 12 sourceshash-verified

The Senate agreed by unanimous consent on Sept. 16 to S.Res. 860, the resolution recognizing September 15, 2026, as "National Voter Registration Day." The resolution was submitted, considered and agreed to without amendment, Congress.gov...

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