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"The difference between Titanic sinking and not sinking are down to the fine margins of holes about the size of a piece of paper," said Simon Benson, an associate lecturer in naval architecture at the University of Newcastle."But the problem is that those small holes are across a long length of the ship, so the flood water comes in slowly but surely into all of those holes, and then eventually the compartments are flooded over the top and the Titanic sinks."

A diehard Donald Trump supporter, Ton-That envisioned using facial recognition to compare images of migrants crossing the border to mugshots to see if the arrivals had been previously arrested in the United States. His Border Patrol pitch also included a proposal to screen any arrival for “sentiment about the USA.” Here, Ton-That appeared to conflate support for the Republican leader with American identity, proposing to scan migrants’ social media for “posts saying ‘I hate Trump’ or ‘Trump is a puta’” and targeting anyone with an “affinity for far-left groups.” The lone example he offered was the National Council of La Raza, now called UnidosUS, one of the country’s largest Hispanic civil rights organizations.

Given that coal is now significantly more expensive than other sources, companies and investors aren’t especially eager to pour billions of dollars into plants that typically operate for 40 to 60 years. Researchers at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, or IEEFA, expect that all of the country’s remaining coal plants could close by 2040. That’s good news for the people who may now be spared the effects of coal pollution, which are estimated to have killed around half a million people, in one study of Medicare records, between 1999 and 2020.