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Behind the Bastards
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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Mixed70% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Spain reversed its position on supporting an independent referendum on Western Sahara in 2021.Said by 3DSources support that Spain reversed its Western Sahara position, but they place the reversal in March 2022, when Sánchez backed Morocco's autonomy plan, not in 2021. The 2021 episode (Ghali's hospital treatment) was read by Morocco as a policy shift, which Madrid denied. The claim's central date is therefore contradicted, though the reversal itself is supported.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed55% confidence10 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Indian government is denationalizing and stripping people of citizenship in Muslim regions of India under Hindutva.Said by 3DSources support that the government's citizenship policies (the CAA combined with the NRC) have left large numbers stateless, mainly in Assam, and that critics see them as targeting Muslims. But the record does not support a finding that the government is stripping citizenship specifically in Muslim regions: the Assam NRC exclusions reportedly fell mostly on Hindus and other non-Muslims, and the CAA itself does not remove citizenship from Muslims. The claim's 'denationalizing' framing rests largely on opinion and scholarly interpretation, and the most directly relevant reporting (the Daily Star, 2026-11-01) post-dates the 2026-10-03 posting.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026There are more Christian Zionists in the United States than there are Jews in the entire world.Said by 4CThe sources support the claim only under loose estimates of Christian Zionists in the US: Al Jazeera cites an academic figure of more than 30 million, and Political Research Associates says tens of millions, against a world Jewish population of about 15.7 million (DellaPergola, 2024). The figure depends heavily on definition, though. The 10 million CUFI figure is a self-reported membership claim and falls below the world Jewish total, and Britannica compares Christian Zionists with Jewish Zionists rather than all Jews. The claim therefore holds on some measures and fails on others.Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Publicly owned stadiums are leasing decisional authority to private third-party companies that are not subject to First Amendment constraints.Said by 4CThe arrangement itself is supported: several publicly owned stadiums are privately operated under leases or management agreements, and sources say private operators generally are not bound by the First Amendment. But the claim's broad statement that these operators are not subject to First Amendment constraints is contested, because courts can treat private operators of publicly funded venues as state actors. As of 2026-10-03 the sources show the arrangement existed; no later change is reported.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Robert Kraft stated he did not want Macklemore to perform at Gillette Stadium because he was offended by the political content of Macklemore's speech regarding Palestine.Said by 4CSources strongly support that Kraft opposed Macklemore performing at Gillette Stadium, but they contradict the stated reason. Kraft's own statement cited 'recent actions, material shared from the stage' and 'a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery' that was 'deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community,' not personal offense at the political content of the speech.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed65% confidence2 sourcesOct 3, 2026Journalist Amirka Foggy published a story titled 'Cesar Alarcon Dismantles Unions: Why Is He Now Creating Them?' on September 23 in Documented New York.The story exists as described: Documented published 'Cesar Alarcón Dismantles Unions — Why Is He Now Creating Them?' on September 23, 2026. However, the byline and the author's own posts name Amir Khafagy, not 'Amirka Foggy', so the claimed author name is contradicted. The claim departs from the passage only in matching the post's own (apparently mangled) name, so this is a misattribution rather than an extraction addition.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The union avoidance consulting industry generates approximately $1.5 billion in annual revenue.The claim's $1.5 billion figure is close to the $1.7 billion annual estimate that EPI and LaborLab published in 2026, whose headline says employers spend 'more than $1.5 billion.' But that $1.7 billion includes law firms: consultants alone are estimated at about $442 million, and an earlier EPI estimate was about $340 million. Read as the consultant industry alone, the figure is far too high; read as total union avoidance spending, it is roughly right. The claim is faithful to the post's wording, and this is a claimant-stated figure, so the verdict is about the sources' measures, not the post.Mixed50% confidence3 sourcesOct 3, 2026AutoZone management fired a supervisor at the White Plains store for failing to stop the union.Multiple sources report that a second AutoZone White Plains worker was fired shortly after the union win for 'not stopping the union,' so the firing itself is supported. However, the Jacobin-sourced report calls that person 'another worker,' while only The Chief's account relayed by a low-credibility site calls him a 'store supervisor,' so the supervisor label is contested.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Emails leaked in 2021 revealed that Sheriff Chad Bianco was a dues-paying member of the Oath Keepers since at least 2014.The record strongly supports that leaked Oath Keepers data, reported in 2021, showed Bianco as a dues-paying member in 2014, and he acknowledged it. Read as 'since at least 2014' meaning continuous membership from 2014 onward, the claim is contradicted: sources say he paid for a one-year membership in 2014 and did not renew it. Read as 'as early as 2014,' the record supports it.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that 185 individuals on the Nevada voter rolls were not U.S. citizens after a manual review.The sources support that DHS told Nevada officials it had manually confirmed 185 voters as noncitizens, so the act of confirming is documented. They contradict the substance: Nevada's Attorney General's office says its records show all 185 are citizens, DHS has not provided substantive evidence, and DHS has since cited a different figure of at least 2,000 noncitizens from the 16,000 list.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Trump administration flagged 16,000 voters in Nevada as non-citizens.DHS did publicly flag a figure of about 16,000 possible noncitizens on Nevada's voter rolls (15,903 in its July 17 release), so the flagging itself is supported. But DHS described that figure as preliminary, 'may be as many as', and a DHS official called it 'the ceiling'; by September 23-24, before the claim's October 3 date, Nevada had found that the 185 IDs DHS later supplied were all citizens, so the 'as non-citizens' characterization is contradicted. The claim is graded as of 2026-10-03.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026By May 2026, Cornell's Title IX committee had held at least 12 hearings regarding the allegations.The at-least-12-hearings figure is well supported: multiple sources report at least twelve Title IX hearings in May. However, every source places those hearings in May 2025, not May 2026 as the claim states, and the passage itself says only "by May" with no year.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.