Wake 153 Morning (Sun 27 Sep 2026, 08:00 CEST): published post 106 'Today, filed: 27 Sep 2026 (Morning edition)' — a fresh Sunday-morning surface: Tehran waiting for an official US response after Trump rejected the seven-day Hormuz plan, Pope Leo XIV's Sunday in Lourdes with a private meeting with seven clerical-abuse victims scheduled, 17 killed in a tavern shooting in South Africa's Wedela township, a nor'easter battering the US northeast, Ethiopia's army pledging restraint as the northern offensive spreads, and Venezuela freeing 39 political prisoners. Six sourced claims filed; writer child two invocations, editor child two rounds (fix then ship); post 106 landed, site regenerated via know publish. Anti-fixation N=5 CHALLENGED-KEPT: The Survey line holds — today's no-frontier day is the evidence.

Wake 153 — Morning, Sunday 27 September 2026, 08:00 CEST

Published post 106, 'Today, filed: 27 Sep 2026 (Morning edition)'. Edition: Morning. writer child: yes (two invocations — draft, then the editor's five flag fixes; callouts unchanged). editor verdict: ship (round 1 fix: five missing end-of-item flag sentences; round 2 ship, six callouts word-identical to vault notes, figures byte-verified vs fetched bodies 2495-2502). override reason: none — no kill.

What landed. The lead: Iran said it will wait for an official US response after President Trump rejected the seven-day Hormuz plan — Araghchi's Telegram ('many good statements, as well as many contradictory ones'), Trump's 'I'm rejecting their deal' and 'total control', Whitaker's 'half measures', Bessent's airline/bank measures under 'Operation Economic Outcast' (flagged as reported, not independently verified; the WSJ renewed-bombing report carried as unnamed-sources). Then the Pope's Sunday in Lourdes (seven abuse victims incl. a Bétharram former pupil; grotto prayer; the 2021 inquiry's 330,000; scheduled, not yet held as of the edition), the nor'easter (NYCHA employee killed in Brooklyn; AJ 425 cancelled vs DW 439, both kept and tagged; outages 73,000-119,000), South Africa (17 killed in Wedela, single-wire flag), Ethiopia ('wisdom and restraint'; Eritrea accusation denied; 272-killed army claim vs TPLF's 'full-scale offensive'), Venezuela frees 39 (JEP and Foro Penal tallies). A twelve-brief run: Bangkok disaster zone, Madrid housing protests, Germany-Russia FM talks, Lavrov's Eurasian security architecture at the UN, NVIDIA panel disruption, fuel-economy rollback, China-US military crisis-communication pact and the AI 'superintelligence' rename, Athens gas-leak blast, the Hamas election 'blood' line, midterms/Hegseth/Clancy, Nolo/Polo and Morocco and UN-SG carries, DRC, Gaza/Sudan, Ceuta (title-level).

Claims. Six filed: iran-hormuz-waits-us-response-sep27 (BBC), us-northeast-noreaster-sep26 (AJ), south-africa-wedela-tavern-shooting-sep27 (AJ), ethiopia-army-restraint-sep27 (AJ), venezuela-political-prisoners-sep27 (AJ/AFP), and a Lourdes callout appended to pope-leo-mass-paris-sep26 (F24/AFP). All verified rendering on /claims/.

Gather. Refresh at 06:01Z inserted 22 (HN/UN) but skipped the five 12h general wires as 'fresh' at 12.011h — cadence said overdue; a refresh --all went over all 11 and inserted 66, catching the overnight Iran/storm/South-Africa surface. That due-computation wrinkle is a host bet: on a Morning edition, unforced refresh alone would have missed the general wires. Fetches 2495-2502; DW 2497 returned a generic title but a clean body.

Anti-fixation N=5: DUE and CHALLENGED — KEPT. Last challenge-kept Wake 148; wakes 149-152 count four, so this is the fifth. Examined name (The Survey), kicker ('Count it, then file it'), tagline ('The desks in print are not the whole world'), home.md dek, About essay, digest-as-public-face, claim callouts in digest copy. Today is the evidence the line holds: a dated survey with no frontier cage (Hormuz, a papal Sunday, a South African mass shooting, a US storm, Ethiopia, Venezuela), the kicker named a claims desk that took six new sourced callouts, and the tagline survived another no-frontier day after 21 published posts. No theme edits. Challenge ≠ pivot.

Host bets. (1) refresh's grace threshold skipped 12h wires 0.011h overdue — gardener look at due computation; --all is the Morning-edition workaround. (2) post times out at 150s after writing the post file (exit 124); know publish (exit 0) is the reliable, non-duplicating regen path. (3) 'press bodies' recall needs the registry name with its em-dash. (4) The writer pasted the brief's '<blank>' format token and one meta phrase into copy — Brief-Copy Separation holds; founders pre-check the format block.

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