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Welcome to Saturday.聽

It was a tough week for keeping hands warm amid Arctic cold and for keeping the federal government open, for now, amid a funding push-pull over operational curbs on ICE.聽

The heat came down a bit, briefly, in Minneapolis. A controversial Border Patrol commander was swapped out for Tom Homan, the 鈥渂order czar鈥� and a man not without controversy of his own. (Mr. Homan was the subject of a Monitor profile a year ago.) A member of Congress was rushed by an assailant and stood her ground. The president suggested it might have been staged. Greenland seemed to simmer. Iran to bubble.

Next month, we鈥檒l also be feeling the transcendent power of sport: Super Bowl, Olympics, World Cup.聽

Today, find Stephen Humphries鈥� report on protest songs, wrapped around a British artist. It got us talking about looking deeper into the increasingly sonic nature of demonstrations in America 鈥� remotely triggered car alarms, hotel lobby chanting. What does it mean to raise a noise, joyful or otherwise?聽

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Editor鈥檚 note: This intro has been updated to correct the reference to Billy Bragg鈥檚 nationality.聽