A Florida community activist says he's considering suing the Baker County Sheriff's Office after a Facebook post from the department accused him of "exploiting and manipulating children," First Coast News reports.

On Wednesday, Kevin Conner spoke at a meeting for Duval County Public Schools regarding the possible renaming of some schools in the district.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had a busy weekend, speaking at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida and talking to host Margaret Brennan for CBS News' "Face the Nation." Noem, a loyal ally of former President Donald Trump, was a hit at CPAC 2021 — where the Republican governor fit right in with the event's Trumpian Culture War themes. But on "Face the Nation," it was obvious that Brennan wasn't going to let her off with the type of softball questions she would get from Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham at Fox News.

South Dakota has not fared well during the COVID-19 pandemic, suffering some of the highest infectious rates in the United States — and Brennan pointed out that Noem, in contrast to some governors, has not been aggressive when it comes to social distancing restrictions or encouraging the use of face masks.

A former chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference was disturbed, but not exactly surprised, by the depths to which the annual event has sunk.

Mickey Edwards, a former GOP congressman from Oklahoma, noted in a new column for The Bulwark that the roots of the conservative movement's degradation extend back to the Ronald Reagan era, when he noticed as chair of CPAC and the American Conservative Union that fundraising materials became increasingly focused on culture war issues instead of political principles.