`cartoons/queue/2026-09-24.json`

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{
  "date": "2026-09-24",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-24T17:05:39.716Z",
  "count": 6,
  "briefs": [
    {
      "id": "budget-pie-fight",
      "title": "Who Gets the Last Slice",
      "brief": "A single-image SVG metaphor: an INVENTED town budget as a pie diners keep re-slicing smaller at a banquet table, each guest an invented department mascot. Dragging a slider re-carves the pie and the caption rewrites live. Light/dark toggle.",
      "slug": "20260924-budget-pie-fight",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "pork-barrel-train",
      "title": "The Pork Barrel Express",
      "brief": "A single bold SVG illustration: an INVENTED infrastructure bill as a train where each car is a wildly unrelated rider project (a lighthouse in a desert, a ferris wheel). Clicking a car reveals its invented cost. Caption adapts to how many cars are attached.",
      "slug": "20260924-pork-barrel-train",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "quorum-call-hide-seek",
      "title": "The Quorum Call",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip: an INVENTED legislative chamber plays hide-and-seek to dodge a quorum call \u2014 panel 1 the roll is called, panel 2 desks are empty with little paper cutouts propped in chairs, panel 3 the sergeant-at-arms searches a suspiciously form-shaped closet. Plot twist changes the hiding spot.",
      "slug": "20260924-quorum-call-hide-seek",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "filibuster-vs-cloture",
      "title": "Cloture o'Clock",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip: an INVENTED senate clock personified, wound up by one side and unwound by the other, ticking backward and forward until it just shrugs. Non-partisan, invented chamber and characters only. Plot-twist button changes the clock's expression.",
      "slug": "20260924-filibuster-vs-cloture",
      "status": "built"
    },
    {
      "id": "filibuster-marathon",
      "title": "The Filibuster Marathon",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip about an INVENTED legislator who begins reading a phone book aloud to stall a vote; panel 2 a clock melts Dali-style, panel 3 the whole chamber has fallen asleep standing up. A 'plot twist' button swaps what they're reading (cereal box, assembly instructions, their own bill).",
      "slug": "20260924-filibuster-marathon",
      "status": "failed"
    },
    {
      "id": "lobbyist-revolving-door",
      "title": "The Revolving Door",
      "brief": "A single SVG scene: an INVENTED capitol building's revolving door where the same invented figure exits as a regulator and re-enters seconds later as a lobbyist, carrying a slightly bigger briefcase each spin. Click to spin the door; a counter tallies revolutions.",
      "slug": "20260924-lobbyist-revolving-door",
      "status": "built"
    }
  ]
}