Return of the Sexploration Tent

Good morning. It’s Thursday, and I’m reading about a rooftop cinema club in downtown. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

The annual Sexploration Tent returned to McCarthy Quad yesterday, doling out free vibrators, handcuffs, condoms, and lube to students apparently too impatient to wait for a clandestine Amazon order. Annenberg Media astutely observed that the tent was “bigger and longer than the rest.”

2.

A Santa Monica College staffer who was shot by a coworker Monday died of her wounds in the hospital. Felicia Hudson, 54, was a custodial operations manager originally from Newman, Georgia. Police have not identified a motive but believe it was a case of workplace violence.

3.

It’s Trumpy on Trumpy in the Coachella Valley, where Vem Miller — the man arrested for possessing guns near the former president’s rally — just sued the Riverside County sheriff for allegedly defaming him by falsely saying he planned to kill Trump. The sheriff wanted to be “heroic,” Miller said, probably because he’s a MAGA devotee himself.

4.

The Archdiocese of LA will pay a record $880 million to over 1,300 people who say they were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as children. The settlement bookends more than two decades of litigation against the archdiocese, and, combined with past settlements, brings the total payout to over $1.5 billion.

5.

Disneyland unveiled a new premium pass that lets guests skip lines at any time of the day — but it’ll run you $400. And that’s on top of your park ticket. The new “Lightning Lane Premier Pass,” though, lets you hop on rides without first scheduling a time on an app like the current fast pass requires.