u/Annoying1978

I’m the tech guy that most of my friends and family call and I’m getting lots of calls about what new laptop people should buy because Microsoft is ending Windows 10 support in October and Windows 11 requires unnecessary things like a TPM chip or Secure Boot. Windows 11 can technically run without these things, but Microsoft is creating one of the largest e-waste events in history because they want everyone to upgrade to Windows 11.

It’s stupid.

So I just wanted to tell you that this might be a good time to just say buh bye to Microsoft. Most people do 90% of their tasks with a browser and unless you need very specific Windows applications, a good solution is Linux Mint.

Don’t get all scared. It’s easier than you think and there’s a ton of free guides [and YouTube videos](https://youtu.be/TL-tWy4T2c8) that will walk you through the process. It’s very simple and you won’t need to buy another laptop.

In fact, I urge YOU to be the tech guru for your friends and family that are thinking about upgrading their laptop which already works great. If they are too scared to install Mint, do it for them.

All you need is a USB drive and ensure you copy your important files and photos to either an online storage place (like Google Drive) or an external drive if you have one big enough you can use.

But please, before you throw away your working laptop, at least consider upgrading to Linux Mint. It looks quite similar to Windows and you won’t have to spend hundreds or even a thousand dollars on a laptop that you don’t need.

I hate that I agree with Tucker Carlson here, but he’s 100% right. The government tells tech companies, who also happen to depend on government contracts, to block speech critical of Israel. Tech companies have no choice but to comply because if they don’t they will be kicked out of the multi-billionaire dollar federal procurement process.

And now there is legislation in Congress. The Antisemitism Awareness Act (H.R. 6090) introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) passed with a 320–91 vote. Over a 100 democrats voted in favor of this bill.

The bill would mandate that the Department of Education uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism which would prevent comparing the actions of Israel and the IDF to those of Nazis or saying that the State of Israel does not have a right to exist. Essentially, the bill will make it illegal to criticize Zionism or the Israeli military making it easier for the atrocities in Palestine and Lebanon to continue.

Yes, that is censorship.

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire has just laid off HALF of their workforce. This is the second round of layoffs. The first one was in March 2025.

The Daily Wire is losing an average of 1,000 subscribers a day. Estimates indicate their YouTube channel was generating $8,300/month in April 2024 but revenue dropped to only $4,600 as of the first quarter of 2026.

Younger conservatives have grown increasingly upset with supporting Israel, while the Daily Wire doubled down on pro-Israel and Zionist views.

The tide is turning and it’s not just among Democrats. Conservatives are tired of funding Israel and can’t look away from the genocide in Gaza and the IDF’s horrific practices towards Palestinians.

The Trump administration was trying to secretly help Bayer achieve full immunity for their production of glyphosate, a pesticide well-known to cause cancer and a variety of other medical problems.

This was done through an executive order by Donald Trump declaring glyphosate necessary for national security to avoid any public congressional discussion.

Bayer spent $9.2 million in 2025 alone to try and seek help in Washington because their litigation-related liabilities stood at $11.25 billion because of all the sickness and cancer glyphosate has caused and they wanted to limit future exposure.

In addition they also gave $1M to Trump’s inaugural fund and had people on the inside as both Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and then-AG Pam Bondi helped lobby for Bayer previously.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interrogated EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin and caught him in a lie and proved that the Trump administration was attempting allow Bayer to produce glyphosate, a pesticide known to cause cancer, destroy the human digestive system and cause toxic levels of reproductive disruption without any consequences moving forward.

AOC caught him in a lie. But conservative right wing media would have you think that she’s some sort of idiot either because she’s young, a woman, Puerto Rican or because she used to work as a bartender when she was younger.

The reality is she is one of just a few members of Congress fighting for your rights, your health and your family’s ability to live in the United States.

Thank you, AOC.

I wish satire was different from reality, but I can see this easily happening within months. They’ve already said the Pope shouldn’t disagree with the President. They’ve dismissed 34 federal convictions, a court determining he committed r@pe and pedophilia.

This is the natural next evolution of The Cult of Donald Trump.

The US national debt grows by $1 trillion every 150 days. We need to stop these endless wars. 53c of every discretionary dollar spent goes to the military and defense.

It’s not like it even makes us invincible. Iran spends $16.7 billion on its military. The U.S. spends that every 6 days and we still can’t defeat them.

U.S. defense spending accounts for 40% of TOTAL global military expenditure. And for what? We lost Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. The last war we won was The Gulf War and that was a direct reason for al-Qaeda to attack us on 9/11.

We have spent 230 of our 250 year history at war. It needs to end.

You know about the 1953 CIA-backed coup. You know about the 1979 hostage crisis. But that’s just the beginning. This is how two centuries of greed and bad decisions led directly to today's crisis with Iran.