Thursday Links!

* None dare call it fascism: Trump administration preparing to hold immigrant children on military bases. “These aren’t people. These are animals.” ICE arrested a dreamer, revoked his DACA status, placed him in detention, and attempted to deport him, claiming he was a gang member. A federal judge just ruled that ICE was lying—brazenly, intentionally, repeatedly, and illegally. Abolish the ICE Prison Complex.

“These aren’t people. They’re animals.” — Donald Trumphttps://t.co/Ycln6f5PTQ pic.twitter.com/gycKkv7PB5

— Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle) May 16, 2018

Inflammatory liberal rhetoric isn't why there isn't a conservative-liberal alliance against authoritarianism. The refusal of conservatives to enter into an alliance with liberals against authoritarianism is the reason contemporary liberal rhetoric is inflammatory.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 17, 2018

America's near-future hard-border weapons-saturated climate-catastrophe is going to call for some really impressive perversions of empathy and the concept of humanity – and let me just say, my friends, we're on track to Bring It

— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) May 15, 2018

* If men gave birth, the question of whether or not to have children would have been the central question of philosophy from the beginning of time.

* The Left Hand of Darkness in Light of #MeToo.

* The worst -preneurs.

* The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children.

* The Solo reviews are rolling in. Disney has already moved on.

SOLO Is Bad, But Editorial Policy and Our Fear of Online Creeps Prevents Us from Saying So Outright

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 16, 2018

* Revisiting Springsteen’s worst decade.

* Michigan State University Reaches $500 Million Settlement With Larry Nassar’s Victims. Report: USC Ignored Gynecologist’s Alleged Misconduct.

* Is Chicago Experiencing a Historic Preservation Crisis?

* Can Artificial Intelligence Help Find Alien Intelligence?

* The story you don’t care about, in the format you don’t want, in the series you’ll forget about while it’s still airing: ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Series Will Focus On Young Aragorn.

* Same thing but Young Alfred.

* The Wrath of Khan Director Reveals He Was Making a Star Trek Trilogy for CBS, But It’s Been Delayed.

* How can you make Arrested Development season five even less promising? Netflix’s top scientists are hard at work.

* Elsewhere in entertainment news: Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die.

[image error]* Scenes from the Anthropocene: Scientists Match Pollution in Greenland’s Ice Sheet to Events from Ancient Greece and Rome.

* Someone, somewhere, is making a banned chemical that destroys the ozone layer, scientists suspect.

* We can now see how humans have altered Earth’s water resources.

* The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has been hacked (and it wasn’t hard).

* Researchers uncovered 2 pages of ‘dirty jokes’ in Anne Frank’s diary.

* Inside the largest comic book collection in the world.

* In a time without heroes…

* Traumatic License: An Oral History of Action Park.

* Poverty and the brain.

* Rage and the incels.

* It is sometimes said that a generous basic income could empower workers to better resist their capitalist bosses. This familiar claim regarding the emancipatory potential of basic income has things almost exactly backwards. A universal basic income high enough to be genuinely liberating would require enormous expropriation of businesses and wealthy people. Consequently, there is no chance of its passage until there is an organized working class already powerful enough to extract it. This fact should inform the Left’s political strategy.

* The arc of history is long, but Uber and Lyft agree to stop forcing driver sexual assault victims into arbitration, confidentiality agreements.

* Batman and Eve.

* Kid, you got the job.

* And I always knew: Octopuses came to Earth from space as frozen eggs millions of years ago.