The week opens with a warning. Clyburn calls the DC police move and the National Guard Jim Crow 2.0. He links Project 2025 to 1876 edicts and says democracy’s door is narrow, and danger could return.

In London, Reform UK MP Pochin says Britain cannot go on like this. She accuses Labour of betraying women's safety and warns of an invasion on British culture amid a record migrant crisis.

In Princeton, Eddie Glaude Jr. says Trump and his followers see the U.S. as a white republic, not a more perfect union. MAGA civil religion erases slavery and Jim Crow, preferring a founding victory tale in the 250th year.

Bass on MSNBC calls the guard deployment intimidation, a test of public tolerance; Los Angeles crime is at a 60-year low and homelessness is down.

Trump moved Barack Obama’s portrait to the top of the Grand Staircase; Bush portraits moved similarly. CNN and Breitbart say Trump meddles in White House aesthetics, buys flags and a State Ballroom, and even donates his presidential salary.

The Digest, 8/12/2025 @1200AM, CDT

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