🚨 Red Asphalt – November 05 2025

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Lead: Republicans Deserved This Bloodbath

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Republicans had a bad night on Tuesday as Democrats won local and state elections in droves. It’s not because Democrats are popular. They really aren’t. It’s more because Republicans have not delivered on campaign promises that got them elected.

Republicans have not ended foreign wars. On the contrary, we are now bombing Venezuela and threatening war in Nigeria.

Republicans have not cut foreign aid. On the contrary, $40 billion was just sent to Argentina.

Republicans have not been transparent. The Epstein files are still being protected and the Trump administration keeps inventing dumber and dumber excuses about them.

Republicans did secure the southern border, but they have failed to make any meaningful headway in curbing the power of the drug cartels.

And the Republican establishment is still supporting Israel’s war against Gaza, even though a growing number of conservatives don’t want to.

Democrats cause a lot of problems but Republicans do not solve them so they deserved to be handed this bloodbath.

This isn’t a move toward liberalism, and no one should mistake it for that. It’s just the other side of the same coin. It is a rotation of power inside the uniparty. We will all keep losing until we see that partisan politics demeans us all.

Censorship Has No Party

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YouTube admitted to removing videos that document Israel’s human rights abuse. The company told The Intercept that they did this due to the State Department’s sanctions of Palestinian human rights organizations.

YouTube reportedly removed more than 700 videos and closed down the channels that hosted them without notice. They included a “documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.”

Israel has openly discussed censoring American social media to stifle criticism of its government but it was mostly targeted at TikTok and X. Clearly someone is targeting YouTube too.

Recently, YouTube admitted to censoring channels during the Biden administration and promised not to do it again. But they are doing it again, this time under pressure from the Trump administration.

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The Pill Problem

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A new study shows that hormonal birth control is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer in women.

Researchers in Sweden analyzed over 2 million women and girls and found that those who took hormonal birth control, either in pill or injectable form, had a higher rate of breast cancer diagnosis than those who did not.

The study also found a higher risk of breast cancer from the progestin-only contraceptives compared to combined formulations. Incidentally, that is what they give to nursing mothers who don’t want to pass estrogen to their babies but also don’t want to get pregnant.

And this isn’t the only concern. Hormonal birth control, particularly the pill, has long been linked to an increased risk of stroke, blood clots, and other cardiovascular events.

So when you add up the risks: breast cancer, stroke, clotting… My generation was definitely not given real talk about the pill. Many young women went on it to control acne! My daughters will definitely get a much different education, you’d better believe that!

News By The Numbers

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$422.5 million. That is how much The Mummy made when it was released in 1999. That is almost as much as every movie in Hollywood made for the entire month of October. It is no wonder then that filmmakers want to remake it and the films original stars Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reportedly on board.

35 days. That was previously the record for the longest government shut down but we passed that today for day 36.

20%. That is how much shares of Pinterest dropped on Tuesday due to disappointing Q3 earnings.

The Suicide Prevention That Doesn’t Prevent Suicide

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A new study shows that suicide prevention for young people doesn’t work.

This highlights a disturbing truth: the mental health establishment never had proof that these interventions worked in the first place. For decades, schools, clinics, and policymakers have rolled out programs built on hopeful theory, not data, effectively experimenting on children in real time.

The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, analyzed decades of research on treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy, school-based prevention programs, medication, crisis lines, and “gatekeeper” training. None showed statistically significant reductions in suicide mortality among children, teens, or young adults.

What the study ignores is credible evidence that constantly telling children not to kill themselves can plant the idea itself, amplifying social contagion rather than preventing it.

The authors conclude that there is a need for “novel, developmentally and trauma-informed treatments, as well as multilevel interventions to target the increasing suicide risk among youths.”

But wouldn’t the logical conclusion be that the very people who failed to stop suicide and may have even made it worse should NOT be the ones designing what comes next?

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