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Kshama Sawant Supporters Held Rallies Across the City This Weekend: You can find tons of pictures on her Twitter feed. This is what an enthusiastic volunteer-heavy campaign looks like.

The Sports Team from My Area Is Superior to the Sports Team from Your Area: Our big sportsball men defeated another place's big sportsball men, but the game was really close.

Police Missed Alleged LAX Shooter "By a Matter of Minutes": Around the time alleged airport shooter Paul Anthony Ciancia was dropped off at the airport, LA police officers were visiting his apartment in Sun Valley "in response to concerns from his family after they received text messages indicating that he wanted to harm himself," according to the LA Times.

King County Releases Flood App: You take a picture of your feet, and if they're in the water, there's a flood. Just kidding! It has graphs and charts and tells you about eight local rivers that could flood. Says KPLU's Bellamy Pailthorp, "This information can also be accessed via computer, but many people may have trouble accessing a computer during a flood." Hooray for functional government technology!

What Does "Death to America" Mean These Days? From NPR:

On this 34th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, thousands of Iranians gathered outside that building to once again chant "Death to America."

But New York Times Bureau Chief Thomas Erdbrink told NPR's Steve Inskeep on Monday that though the shouts were the same as they've been since 1979 and the demonstration was larger than in recent years, the people he interviewed there were not virulently anti-American.

"All the people I spoke with," Erbrink said, "didn't really mind Iran talking to the United States ... [and they] admitted they want to see some sort of solution" to three-plus decades of fractured relations.

This Sounds Like a Terrible Idea: Seattle's public libraries' revised rules now allow patrons to pack heat.

An Alligator on the Loose at O'Hare: He was found under an escalator, he was just a foot long, and authorities have no idea how long he was living at the airport.

Richard Dawkins Is a Whiny Baby: Or maybe he's just doing a really self-righteous Winnie the Pooh impression.

That Calculator Google Doodle: Is celebrating Shakuntala Devi, a child prodigy "human calculator" who could do complex math problems rapidly in her head and whose "sharpness often made sophisticated digital devices seem inadequate," as the Times of India puts it. She died in April; today would've been her 84th birthday. Happy Birthday, Devi.