Good morning. Yesterday, we wrote about how Silicon Valley billionaires are looking to build a utopian city in rural Northern California.

Check out these photos of the land where they hope to make that happen. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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The LA City Council is looking to sue the state of Texas and its governor, Greg Abbott, over the state’s controversial busing policy that has delivered more than 400 migrants to LA since June. The council’s unanimously approved directive instructs the city attorney to begin any potential civil legal action and investigate whether “human trafficking, kidnapping or any other crime was committed.”

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USC will switch its learning management system from Blackboard to Brightspace’s D2L beginning summer 2024, after Blackboard said it plans to discontinue its current product. Officials said that, starting in the spring, select classes will pilot D2L ahead of the full rollout in May.

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Anti-LGBTQ activist groups announced an effort to place three initiatives hostile to transgender youth on California’s November 2024 ballot. The initiatives — which require school staff to out transgender students to their parents, ban transgender students from sports that align with their gender identity and block gender-affirming medical care — each need 550,000 valid signatures to make it onto the ballot.

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California will invest $750 million to build housing and clean transportation in “jobs-rich” areas that lack affordable services. The project will produce about 2,500 affordable homes, 150 zero-emission buses and remove the equivalent emissions of 178,000 gas-powered cars in a single year, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office.

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The man believed to have crashed his car into an Uber at 100 mph, killing three in South LA over the weekend, was on probation tied to a 2020 murder case. Gregory James Black Jr. allegedly T-boned the Uber while running red lights and speeding up Vermont Avenue, killing three women in their 20s and injuring another passenger and the driver. Police arrested Black, who was also injured in the crash, after he was discharged from the hospital.

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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