Hello! Here are the topics for today’s commentary:

• NAIA Women’s Basketball Championship
• U.S. Senate Montana 2024
• Online First Amendment Rights
• Trump’s Mother-in-law
• Day Of Giving 3/27

NAIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP:

The University of Providence Argos (Great Falls) lost in the NAIA Women’s National Championship to Dordt University of Sioux Center, Iowa, 57-53 Tuesday night.

Congratulations to the Argos for a great season. You made us proud!

U.S. SENATE MONTANA 2024:

Axios is reporting that Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy has repeatedly told supporters he would support getting rid of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency tasked with border security.

Axios says Sheehy has told supporters on at least three occasions that he supports getting rid of DHS, according to audio obtained by Axios.

I think Sheehy is out of his freaking mind. In case he does not know, DHS contains some very important component agencies, like the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, United States Coast Guard, United States Customs and Border Protection, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration, just to name a few. (Source)

You can read the full report from Axios HERE.

ONLINE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS:

60 Minutes did a piece Sunday night titled, “Supreme Court grapples with online First Amendment rights as social media teems with misinformation.”

Here are the main points:

As big tech firms wrestle with how to keep false and harmful information off their social networks, the Supreme Court is wrestling with whether platforms like Facebook and Twitter, now called X, have the right to decide what users can say on their sites.
The dispute centers on a pair of laws passed in the red states of Florida and Texas over the question of First Amendment rights on the Internet. The Supreme Court is considering whether the platforms are like newspapers, which have free speech rights to make their own editorial decisions, or if they’re more like telephone companies, that merely transmit everyone’s speech.

The sad thing is that researchers are being targeted for pointing out false information to tech companies.

One researcher said the following:

I think– not just our research, research across the board, looking at the 2020 election found that there was more misinformation spread by people that were supporters of Donald Trump or conservatives. And the events of January 6th kind of underscore this.

I used to have several MAGA friends, but after pointing out the inaccuracies in some of their posts, I was blocked. They continue to spread lies and misinformation. I continue to correct fake information when I see it.

Check out the 60 Minutes story HERE.

TRUMP’S MOTHER-IN-LAW:

The Daily Beast has an article posted on their website that is interesting.

According to The Daily Beast, Donald Trump’s mother-in-law immigrated to the U.S. using a process that the former president denounced and sought to scrap, according to a report. His wife, Melania, sponsored her mom, Amalija Knavs, to come to the U.S. using a legal avenue that Trump denigrated as “chain migration,” in which U.S. citizens have the right to sponsor their parents for a green card, according to The Washington Post. Trump said during his presidency that the U.S. needed an “END to the horrible Chain Migration.”

You can read the rest of the report HERE.

DAY OF GIVING 3/27:

REMINDER: The “Day of Giving” campaign at Jersey Mike’s is TODAY (March 27).

The campaign culminates with the nationwide event, Day of Giving, on Wednesday, March 27, when local Jersey Mike’s owners and operators will donate their resources and every single dollar that comes in to local charities.

More information can be found HERE.

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