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"caption": "An invented town's budget pie gets re-sliced smaller across three courses while five invented departments hold their forks; drag the slider and watch who ends up with crumbs.",
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"title": "The Casserole Succession",
"caption": "Savannah imposes term limits on its ceremonial Bean Queen, the sash won't come off, and a courthouse finally settles it by casserole, not bloodline.",
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"title": "Commissions All the Way Down",
"caption": "A blue-ribbon commission recommends forming a commission to study its own recommendation. It keeps going.",
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"title": "The Filibuster Marathon — Ink Edition",
"caption": "An invented delegate drones on from a phone book the size of a cinder block. The chamber sleeps. The clock gives up and melts down the wall.",
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"title": "The Revolving Door",
"caption": "An invented capitol official spins out of the revolving door as a regulator and spins back in seconds later as a lobbyist, carrying a slightly bigger briefcase every revolution.",
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"title": "The Meter That Wouldn't Yield",
"caption": "Erie's most reliable parking meter is honored, seated on the council, re-elected, and sworn in as one-day mayor — and now won't leave the office.",
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"title": "The Pork Barrel Express",
"caption": "An invented infrastructure bill leaves committee as a single train car and picks up wildly unrelated riders — a desert lighthouse, a ferris wheel, a spoon museum — at every stop; click a car for its invented cost.",
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"title": "The Quorum Call",
"caption": "An invented legislative chamber plays hide-and-seek to dodge a quorum call, propping paper cutouts in empty chairs while the Sergeant-at-Arms searches a suspiciously form-shaped closet; each plot twist relocates the hiding spot.",
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"caption": "Kansas legislates the one true method for eating corn on the cob, deputizes Corn Marshals, and bans cob holders as cheating devices.",
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"caption": "A stubborn crosswind at one Montana intersection earns a windsock, a paid Wind Spotter, a proposed windbreak, and finally its own festival.",
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"caption": "A minor-league mascot's zipper fails mid-dance, and the fallout escalates through a reinforced costume, an 11-point checklist, and a league-wide Mascot Integrity Officer.",
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"title": "The Booth That Became an Airline",
"caption": "Ashtabula's toll bridge rewards E-ZPass loyalty with points, gift cards, a Gold Lounge, and eventually its own currency and chartered flight.",
"date": "2026-09-24T17:30:00.000Z",
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"caption": "A Wyoming lab's potato-powered soil sensors outlast lithium cells, get their own custom-bred spud, and end up wired into the county's emergency power grid.",
"date": "2026-09-24T17:30:00.000Z",
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"caption": "Scrolling: where time goes to die.",
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