PAULA BOLYARD: Ohio SoS Candidate Who Moved to Keep Trump Off 2020 Ballot Vows to ‘Impact’ Election if She Wins. “A down-ticket race that hasn’t garnered much national attention — but should — is the contest to be Ohio’s next secretary of state. Two state lawmakers, Republican Frank LaRose and Democrat Kathleen Clyde, are vying for the position that the Democratic candidate has said could impact the 2020 presidential election.”

It’s as though they’re not even trying to hide the fact that they cheat anymore.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: This Ocasio-Cortez Fundraising Email Is Completely Unhinged and Tasteless.

Earlier: The Democrats’ Hidden Civil War.

IT’S HARD OUT THERE FOR A CAVEMAN: Neanderthal teeth reveal lead exposure and difficult winters. Not clear where the lead came from. Badly glazed pottery?

CHANGE? We’re the Organizers of the Google Walkout. Here Are Our Demands.

Today at 11:10 a.m. in every time zone in which the protest is taking place, employees at nearly two thirds of Google’s global offices are walking out of their offices. We, the seven core organizers of today’s Google Walkout, represent thousands of Google employees in our call to demand change.

All employees and contract workers across the company deserve to be safe. Sadly, the executive team has demonstrated through their lack of meaningful action that our safety is not a priority. We’ve waited for leadership to fix these problems, but have come to this conclusion: no one is going to do it for us. So we are here, standing together, protecting and supporting each other. We demand an end to the sexual harassment, discrimination, and the systemic racism that fuel this destructive culture.

We are building on the work of others. Many at Google have been advocating for structural change for years. It’s their legacy and leadership that made this moment possible. We are a small part of a massive movement that has been growing for a long time. We are inspired by everyone from the women in fast food who led an action against sexual harassment to the thousands of women in the #metoo movement who have been the beginning of the end for this type of abuse.

So today, over 60 percent of all Google offices, and thousands of Google employees will walk out, around the world.

Their demands include:

• An end to Forced Arbitration

• A commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity

• A clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously

It will be interesting to see if this is just some doomed-to-fizzle-out moral preening, or perhaps one of the biggest-ever cases of the Left eating its own.

STUDY: NEARLY HALF OF REPUBLICANS FEEL BULLIED AT WORK.

Here’s the underlying study by Zety, which the Daily Caller describes as “an online resume builder and career website:” War of Words: Exploring the Impact of Talking Politics at Work [+Stats].

TWITCHY’S SARAH D.: God forbid the media stop humping their own leg for two seconds and actually do their job.

Plus, loads of Iowahawk.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Spinal-cord stimulation allows three paralyzed men to walk with assistance. Faster, please.

SUSTAINABILITY: Treasury Sees 2018 Borrowing Needs Surging to $1.34 Trillion.

OH: Denver Public Schools Proudly Admits to Sharing the Same ‘Values’ as Left-Wing Anti-Christian SPLC.

TAM KEEL ON PERFORMING IN THE CLINCH.

MICHAEL WALSH: Hello Honduras, Goodbye Columbus.

HEY MAN, NICE SHOT: US warship shoots down missile in space with ballistic ‘kill vehicle.’

Photos at the link, and they’re dramatic.

THE RIGHT TO BUY WEAPONS IS THE RIGHT TO BE FREE: The Oldest Weapon Discovered in North America is a 15,000-Year-Old Spearhead.

WOW: European business holds the trump card on Iranian sanctions.

Since the president pulled out of the JCPOA, the EU has been working feverishly behind the scenes to protect the relationship between Europe and Iran, including publicly calling for a special purpose vehicle to help businesses avoid American sanctions, and the implementation of a blocking statute also intended to protect European businesses. The EU goal is to continue with the Iran deal alone, without the U.S., by creating a financial channel between their central banks with the Central Bank of Iran. The Trump administration has made it clear, however, that they will compel the Europeans to comply with the new sanctions— either by carrot or by stick.

This means one more rift in the transatlantic alliance. But for the Trump administration, a new and unexpected ally has emerged: European business. The American ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has made pressuring Germany on Iranian sanctions his signature issue. While European governments were making heated announcements about their opposition to the American sanctions, major German companies began announcements of their own: They are leaving Iran, ceasing projects, ceasing to sell auto parts, etc. From the perspective of a corporate CEO, the decision is clear. On the question of doing business in the U.S. or Iran, they choose the American market. In fact, these same CEOs have reportedly made it clear to Ambassador Grenell that not only will they comply with sanctions, but in fact they are not supportive of the EU government’s talk of evading said sanctions.

It’s great to have European businesses coming on board, but this mess proves that Obama and Kerry lied about sanctions ever “snapping back.”

BOL-ILL-VARIAN REPUBLIC: Venezuela’s Health Crisis Is Crossing the Border. “The collapse of Venezuela’s health system has turned what was once Latin America’s richest nation into an incubator for malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue and tuberculosis, as well as the virus that causes AIDS.”

The diseases, many of which had been considered all but eradicated, are now cropping up beyond Venezuela’s borders—including in this Amazon city 600 miles away.

Earlier this year, Elainy Portela watched with alarm as measles reappeared with a vengeance. Telltale red rashes covered six children near her home in Manaus, just off the highway used by Venezuelans escaping misery at home.

The highly contagious airborne disease was declared vanquished here 18 years ago. In March, the city had four possible cases. But by early October, there were nearly 1,000 people with measles here and about 2,000 total for this state, Amazonas, and in neighboring Roraima, all having originated with infected Venezuelans who crossed into Brazil, the Health Ministry said. Twelve people have died.

But only uncaring monsters are opposed to socialism.

TONY KATZ: Racist Hall Pass For Joe Donnelly and Hillary Clinton. “The mainstream media never holds their preferred friends to account. Rather, they prefer to pretend it never happened; holding their friends to the standard they demand from others might hurt their friends, and the implementation of their shared ideology which, ironically, ostensibly includes being opposed to racism and bigotry.”

Ostensibly being the key word — and do read the whole thing.

A NOT-SO-MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON. How Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters was connected to the Chevron Shakedown:

Roger Waters, the rock musician, has denounced Chevron for its “greed,” complaining that it is “disquietingly apparent that the rich and powerful are still much attached to the feathering of their own nests at any cost to others.” Well. Documents submitted to the court show “George R. Waters” taking two equity positions in the case, one for 0.076 percent and one for 0.025 percent, through “Fenwick,” presumably the firm of Mark Fenwick, Rogers’s manager and an heir to the Fenwick department-store chain in the United Kingdom. That would come to roughly $9.6 million of a $9.5 billion judgment. You could feather a lot of nests with that. (I was unable to contact Waters or Fenwick for comment. Rock stars are really hard to get on the phone.) If taking in a few million dollars via an investment in extortion and bribery is not greed, then what is?

I’d like to think that in the late 1970s, Waters wrote the hateful lyrics to Pink Floyd’s The Wall as a warning to his future self about the dangers of the anti-Semitism his rock star persona could slowly adopt. And now we now that “Money,” the single from their perennially best-selling 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon apparently wasn’t intended to be ironic, either.

ROBERT SPENCER: The Pittsburgh Shooting and Islamic Apologists’ Cognitive Dissonance. “They condemn anti-Semitism, but believe in a book teeming with it.”

ROGER SIMON: Pittsburgh and the Misplaced Anger of “Liberal” Jews.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Will a Billboard Near Disneyland Convince Marvel to Rehire James Gunn?

HEH: Trump’s Medicare chief tweeted a shirt with ‘Medicare for All’ on it and called it ‘this year’s scariest Halloween costume.’

SAUCE FOR THE GANDER: UMinn scholarship and award opened to men after Title IX complaint.

UGH: CDC confirms 10 new cases of rare polio-like neurological condition.