Good morning. It’s Thursday, and today is your last chance to get a food bribe for voting in the student government elections. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

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A USC student helped build a tool that lets you budget your dining hall meal swipes. USCHospitality Wrapped, a Chrome extension, plugs into your USCard account and tracks when and where you use meal swipes over the course of the semester.

Issy Souleyman / Daily Trojan

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Texts between LA Mayor Karen Bass and county Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, obtained through a public records request, reveal tremendous strain between the two leaders during and after the Palisades fire. “You pulled the rug on the coordinated plan,” Horvath texted Bass. “Coordination is missing but it’s what people want and deserve.”

Julia Wick / Los Angeles Times

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A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is facing a class-action lawsuit after allegedly failing to notify patients that cybercriminals hacked his database and leaked reams of patient information, including nude photos, on the internet. Plastic surgeons have recently become a favorite target of hackers because they retain sensitive treatment photos.

Jules Roscoe / Court Watch

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Donald Trump’s mass purge of federal employees has caused mayhem at national parks. At Yosemite, for instance, the park’s sole locksmith was fired, leaving an area roughly the size of Rhode Island without the one person who knows how to make, fix, and install its untold number of locks.

Maxine Joselow and Andrea Sachs / The Washington Post

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H&H Bagels, a franchise known for serving the quintessential New York bagel once featured on Seinfeld, is opening its first California outpost in Santa Monica next week. The $9 bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches will also make their way to an Echo Park location later this year.

Rebecca Roland / Eater