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A Great Italian Explorer Who Wasn’t

Columbus gets a resurrection, the CDC gets decapitated, and America gets measles again, but at least George Stephanopoulos still has a spine.

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Mary Geddry
Oct 13, 2025
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Good morning, America and happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Whether your calendar calls it that or the version Donald Trump resurrected from the racist archives: “Columbus Day,” mine, like yours, was quietly relabeled overnight, as if the software itself got a memo from Stephen Miller.

Trump marked the holiday by standing before cameras, declaring Christophe…

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