Three-panel editorial cartoon in ink and watercolour on newsprint. TOP LEFT: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a black blazer, grins as she hands a bulging canvas sack marked $1,000,000 to Abdul El-Sayed on a campaign stage with bunting, an American flag and a navy banner. TOP RIGHT: a silver-haired cable-news anchor in a navy suit sits at a glass studio desk in front of a FAUX NEWS logo, palms out, and asks: WHERE DID THE WAITRESS GET A MILLION DOLLARS? BOTTOM: a diner counter and cash register, packed row behind row with furious waitresses in aprons, hairnets and paper diner caps, every one holding up a single one-dollar bill; a green parrot in a blue and orange cap perches on the counter with a dollar in its beak, and a waitress in the foreground points at the reader and says: WE ALL CHIPPED IN. Satire; the anchor's question and the waitresses are the cartoon's invention. Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · rendered with gemini-3-pro-image on Google Gemini (cloud), guided by a reference photograph
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