SALENA ZITO: Finding a real prairie populist in the wild.

ONLY 10 OF AOC’S CONSTITUENTS ARE DONORS TO HER RE-ELECTION: Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller News Foundation takes a look at Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s latest FEC donor list and finds only a handful of residents of her district.

Now, I’m from out of town and all, but doesn’t that make AOC a tool of special interests outside of her district? BTW, Kerr is one of the most talented young investigative journalists in the Right media, so keep an eye on his byline. He’s going places.

EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF “AND”: Elizabeth Warren’s gun control plan either is terrifically stupid or terribly cynical.

In any case, it’s certainly unserious. Warren, as Scott Ott pointed out while we were recording Right Angle yesterday, is a legislator. If she were serious, she’d propose actual legislation.

PAST ITS PEAK: Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech. “Google’s most vexing threats during that period came from inside the company itself. Over the next two and a half years, the company would find itself in the same position over and over again: a nearly $800 billion planetary force seemingly powerless against groups of employees—on the left and the right alike—who could hold the company hostage to its own public image.” Even this unjustifiably friendly portrait makes both Google’s management and its employees look like children. “Over the past three years, the structures that once allowed executives and internal activists to hash out tensions had badly eroded. In their place was a new machinery that the company’s activists on the left had built up, one that skillfully leveraged media attention and drew on traditional organizing tactics. Dissent was no longer a family affair. And on the right, meanwhile, the pipeline of leaks running through Google’s walls was still going as strong as ever.”

Related: Google needs a new CEO, but dumping Sundar Pichai is not enough. “Since its 1990s heyday, Silicon Valley has transformed from an unruly collection of aggressive upstarts disrupting existing industries to a flabby collection of near-monopolies, now busy enforcing gentry-liberal norms on their employees and customers. Whether it’s censoring right-leaning political figures, or firing employees who dare say something truthful but politically incorrect, there’s not much of the old startup spirit there. These are flabby overstaffed Big Business corporations, run by their HR departments. You might find more dynamism at General Motors, these days. But worse yet, they exercise tremendous power and require tremendous trust.” And they’ve repeatedly proven themselves unworthy of that trust.

TROLL LEVEL: GRAND MASTER. Trump Campaign Store Now Selling ‘Fredo Unhinged’ T-Shirts.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Do Faculty Have A ‘Sweet Racket? Or Do They Work 60 Hours/Week For Less Pay Than They Could Get Elsewhere?

AMERICA’S BLOG OF RECORD:  Twitter Rolls Out New Feature That Auto-Posts “Ban Assault Rifles!” From Your Account Any Time a Mass Shooting Hashtag Starts Trending.

(Yes, it’s satire, but really, would it surprise you?)

AND AGAIN, FROM AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  Six-Year-Old Saying, ‘Why Don’t We Just Give Everything Away For Free?’ Surges To Top Of Democratic Polls.

AS MUCH AS WE ALREADY CAN’T TRUST OUR INSTITUTIONS, IMAGINE AN OCTOBER SURPRISE, ONLY IT’S A FILM OF SOMETHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED:  The Specter of Deep Fakes?

PAY ATTENTION:  China’s assault on free speech in Australia and New Zealand.

YEAH. NO. JUST NO:  The Left creates a hullabaloo over denying green cards to migrants who are public charges.

WHATEVER:  CNN’s Cuomo explodes in profanity-laden rant over his nickname, threatens violence, likens Godfather reference to n-word; CNN supports him.

HOW ABOUT NO?  Schumer Wants FBI Say-So Before Body Armor Purchases.

BUT, BUT, BUT… IT DAMAGES THE NARRATIVE!  Another Mass Shooting The Left Doesn’t Want To Mention.

THOSE AREN’T THOUGHTS. THOSE ARE ERUCTATIONS:  Senator Whitehouse Has Some Thoughts.

ALL INVALIDATED BY THE LAST ONE. SERIOUSLY, FBI, AFTER THE STUFF YOU PULLED OVER THE 16 ELECTION, WHY SHOULD WE TRUST ANYTHING YOU DO AND SAY?  8 Questions About the FBI’s Raid of Epstein’s “Pedophile Island”.

Followed by: How can we be a country of laws when we no longer can trust our law enforcement?  Cleaning up the deep state might be akin to cleaning up the Augean Stables. Only a flood will do.

FOREIGN INFLUENCE: The Qatar Supporter Advising Kamala Harris.

MOVE OVER, CHRIS CUOMO: CNN’s Don Lemon sued by Hamptons bartender over alleged assault. “CNN declined to comment further when contacted by The Hill.”

CULTURE OF HATE, CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: Leftists Threaten Before Shooting At ICE Facility: We Know Where All Your Children Live.

HMM: Google Insider Turns Over 950 Pages Of Docs And Laptop To DOJ. The suggestion is that Google CEO Sundar Pichai lied to Congress when he said the algorithms were nonpolitical.

IT’S COME TO THIS: In Defense of Fredo: The hapless Corleone wouldn’t threaten to throw someone down the stairs.

UPDATE: Troll Level: Trump. Trump Campaign Store Now Selling ‘Fredo Unhinged’ T-Shirts.

I’LL BET HILLARY’S LOSS SURPRISED HIM ALMOST AS MUCH AS HIS SUICIDE DID: Flight data places Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet on Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the 2016 election.

OPEN THREAD: Knock yourselves out.

ARE THERE ANY REPUBLICAN-RUN CITIES WITH THESE PROBLEMS? In Echo of Flint Lead Crisis, Newark Offers Bottled Water.

MORE ON EBOLA: Ebola Is Now Curable. Here’s How the New Treatments Work. I hope these are as good as they seem.