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Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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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True80% confidence3 sourcesOct 3, 2026Xfinity provides a five-year price guarantee on WiFi for select plans.Said by 3BThe claim is supported: Reuters reported in April 2025 that Comcast introduced a five-year price guarantee on Xfinity Internet, and Xfinity's own page describes a 5-Year Price Guarantee on its WiFi plans. The post itself says the guarantee applies to select plans only, which matches the claim's wording. The Xfinity page is dated after the 2026-10-03 post date, but it shows the offer was in place, and no source contradicts it as of that date.True85% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026A student from the University of Texas Austin received a ruling against them last week.Said by 5BA federal judge ruled on Thursday, September 24, 2026, against UT Austin student Ammer Qaddumi, finding the university did not violate his First Amendment rights, which fits the 'last week' timing of a post made October 3, 2026. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage, and the sources' only tension is that the judge also criticized the university's handling of the protest, which does not change the ruling against the student.True80% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 20261,900 video game workers at Activision Blizzard won their first union contract.Multiple sources report that nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers, part of Microsoft-owned Activision Blizzard, ratified their first union contracts with CWA in early September 2026. Some sources name Activision Blizzard directly, and the claim's 'just have won' framing fits the post's timing.True90% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Activision Blizzard workers formally unionized with the Communication Workers of America in 2024.Multiple independent sources report that Activision Blizzard workers formally unionized with the Communications Workers of America in 2024, including about 600 Activision QA testers in March 2024 and over 500 World of Warcraft developers in July 2024. The extracted claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage, which also says the workers organized since 2021; the post's separate claim of a first contract is not graded here.True90% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026800 Walmart workers at a distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, won the company's first union contract in North America.Multiple independent outlets (Mississauga News, INsauga, Jacobin, The Militant, Phenomenal World, People's World, MR Online) report that about 800 Unifor Local 252 members at the Walmart distribution centre in Mississauga ratified the first collective agreement Walmart has signed in North America, in May 2026. The claim's wording omits the post's 'just', so the post's October timing does not affect the grade; the sources describe the ratification as May 2026, not recent.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Trump administration enacted federal cuts to Medicaid-funded services.Multiple tier1 and primary sources establish that the Trump administration's 2025 tax and policy law (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) enacted large federal cuts to Medicaid, with CBO projecting roughly $900 billion to $1 trillion in reductions and 7.5 million fewer insured, and that further Medicaid cuts were pursued after enactment. The claim as extracted matches the passage's wording, and the post's own referent ('the Trump administration') resolves to the administration described in the sources.True70% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Nearly 70,000 caregivers in New York have signed union cards to join 1199 SEIU through the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program.Multiple outlets reporting on the September 22-23, 2026 NLRB filing say roughly 70,000 ("over 70,000" or "approximately 70,000") CDPAP caregivers had signed authorization cards to join 1199SEIU, which is consistent with the claim's "nearly 70,000" as of the 2026-10-03 posting date. The figure traces largely to the union's own announcements, which caps confidence, and the claim's "to join 1199 SEIU" matches the post's referent.True90% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026In 1999, 74,000 Los Angeles County home care workers voted to form a union with SEIU.The 1999 Los Angeles County home care worker vote for SEIU representation of about 74,000 workers is confirmed by the contemporaneous LA Times report and by a peer-reviewed-style labor analysis, and the extracted claim faithfully matches the post. Some sources say 'more than 70,000' or describe joining a public authority, which are minor imprecisions rather than contradictions.True85% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026In 2000, Walmart eliminated its entire meat department in Texas and five other states after meat cutters at a Texas location voted to unionize.Contemporaneous 2000 reporting from the Washington Post, the Dallas-datelined Ledger story, and an AP story says Wal-Mart announced it would close meat-cutting operations in six states (Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas and Missouri) weeks after meat cutters at its Jacksonville, Texas store voted to unionize. Wal-Mart denied any link to the vote, and later NLRB rulings upheld by an appeals court found the elimination was tied to the union drive, but the claim's 'after' timing is correct.True70% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026National Nurses United is the largest union of registered nurses in the United States.Multiple sources describe National Nurses United as the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. (about 225,000 members as of October 2026), consistent with the claim as of 2026-10-03. The claim faithfully reflects the post's wording, and no source contradicts it; the only support is NNU's own materials and a 2009 Reuters piece, so confidence is moderate.True92% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Palantir provides technology to ICE to surveil and target immigrants in the United States.Multiple reliable sources, dated before the 2026-10-03 post, report that Palantir holds ICE contracts to build surveillance and deportation-targeting systems, so the claim holds as of that date. The claim matches the post's wording, and the post's reference to the company and ICE is resolved correctly.True88% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Palantir provides technology to Israel's Ministry of Defense for use in Gaza.Multiple reliable sources, including Reuters and Bloomberg reporting from 2024 and a Palantir SEC filing, confirm that Palantir has a strategic partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense to supply technology for the war in Gaza, so the claim held as of 2026-10-03. The claim drops the post's 'genocide' characterization, which is a qualifier rather than a factual element, and the sources do not address that framing either way.