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Trump Announces Pikes Peak Moving from Colorado to Nebraska
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Trump Announces Pikes Peak Moving from Colorado to Nebraska

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an utterly historic—and completely plausible—announcement that has geologists flabbergasted and Nebraskans scratching their heads, former President Trump declared today that Pikes Peak will be physically relocated from Colorado to Nebraska. “Why leave such a Big Beautiful Mountain in that Rocky Mountain hellhole,” he asked, “when Nebraska could use a tourism boost?”

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Gov. Polis Denies Colorado Is a Rectangle
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Gov. Polis Denies Colorado Is a Rectangle

DENVER, CO — Colorado Governor Jared Polis held an impromptu press conference Tuesday where he strongly denied longstanding claims that the Centennial State is, in fact, shaped like a rectangle.

“This is yet another baseless right-wing conspiracy,” Polis said, standing in front of a PowerPoint slide featuring a crudely drawn trapezoid. “We are not, nor have we ever been, a rectangle. Anyone saying otherwise is perpetuating harmful geographic misinformation. Colorado is actually an ‘irregular, inclusive parallelogram,’ and I encourage all Coloradans to embrace our topographic diversity.”

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Colfax Restaurants Rebrand as “Trauma Recovery Centers” as BRT Construction Turns Street Into Post-Apocalyptic Mindfulness Corridor
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Colfax Restaurants Rebrand as “Trauma Recovery Centers” as BRT Construction Turns Street Into Post-Apocalyptic Mindfulness Corridor

DENVER, CO — After months of relentless Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) construction transforming East Colfax into what one Yelp reviewer called “Fallujah, but with fewer parking spots,” local restaurants have abandoned the concept of food entirely and are now marketing themselves as “Trauma-Informed Healing Sanctuaries.”

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