Repeal of the Jones Act is proposed and OECD projects net US gains while Crowley faces Tiffany in Wisconsin governor race.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-20 00:24Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A bustling port scene with ships under construction, cranes towering above, and workers in hard hats, as a Crowley vessel docks in the background, with students on a field trip watching from the dock, under a cloudy sky with a few sunbeams breaking through.
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 port scene with ships under construction, cranes towering above, and workers in hard hats, as a Crowley vessel docks in the background, with students on a field trip watching from the dock, under a cloudy sky with a few sunbeams breaking through. 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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Power4Puerto Rico ties crisis to Jones Act and colonial framework
The group cited the fiscal control board, cabotage rules and tax policies in a statement filed Sept 20.
By Nalani Reyes · 2wPower4Puerto Rico said the current crisis cannot be understood without recognizing that the colonial framework has stifled Puerto Rico's ability to determine its own well-being and future, citing the congressionally imposed fiscal control board and its austerity policies, the Jones Act of 1920 and its cabotage rules, restrictions undermining food sovereignty, and federal tax policies that facilitate displacement of Puerto Ricans by wealthy foreign investors.
The Jones Act is Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, codified at 46 U.S.C. Sec. 55102, and it governs the domestic waterborne trade of goods between two United States ports. The law requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-owned, and U.S.-crewed ships.
The act was reinstated after World War I and expanded cabotage restrictions. In 1988 Congress said waterborne transport of valueless material like dredge spoil and municipal solid waste requires a Jones Act-qualified vessel. Senator Wesley Jones introduced the Merchant Marine Act of 1920.
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