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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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True90% confidence10 sourcesOct 3, 2026The National Voter Registration Act prohibits states from systematically removing the names of ineligible voters from their rolls in the 90 days prior to any primary or general election.The NVRA's 90-day quiet period bars states from systematic list maintenance that removes ineligible voters within 90 days before a federal primary or general election, as confirmed by DOJ, CRS, AP, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org. Sources note exceptions for deaths and voter-requested removals, and that individualized removals remain allowed, but these do not contradict the claim. The claim matches the passage's wording without adding scope.True70% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026A ProPublica report from February 2026 stated that the Department of Homeland Security had to correct information provided to at least five states after the SAVE database misidentified some voters as non-citizens.A ProPublica and Texas Tribune investigation was published February 13, 2026, and a Votebeat article attributes to ProPublica the finding that SAVE gave incorrect information to at least five states. The sources do not quote the report's exact 'DHS had to correct' wording, but the core claim is supported and the claim matches the post's extraction.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Trump administration claimed there were 300,000 non-citizen voters.The claim is extracted faithfully from the passage and concerns the act of claiming. Multiple sources report that DHS and Secretary Mullin publicly claimed about 300,000 potential noncitizen voters, though they describe these as potential or under-investigation cases rather than confirmed noncitizen voters. Coverage dated before 2026-10-03 is thin, and the later reports show the figure was later narrowed and not substantiated, which does not make the claim that it was made false.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026185 manually confirmed cases of alleged non-citizen voting in Nevada were determined to be US citizens.Nevada election officials documented in a September 23, 2026 letter that their records showed all 185 DHS-flagged individuals were citizens, so the claimed determination is supported. DHS disputes that conclusion and says at least 2,000 names on the original list of 16,000 are noncitizens, but it does not offer a specific contrary finding on the 185. The claim matches the extraction from the post.True85% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026A message reading 'Free pussy' was posted to a Cornell fraternity Snapchat group on the night of the alleged assault.Said by 10BMultiple independent outlets report that a vulgar 'free p*ssy' message was sent to the Chi Phi Actives Snapchat group at 1:42 a.m. during the night of the alleged assault (October 19–20, 2024), and the lawsuit includes a photo of it. The DA also acknowledged the text messages as 'completely vulgar and disgusting,' though the underlying assault allegations remain unproven.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026In October 2024, a female Cornell student was allegedly sexually assaulted by seven men at the Chi Phi fraternity house.Said by 10BMultiple tier-1 and tier-2 outlets (AP, Reuters, BBC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC) report that a woman, identified as Jane Doe, alleges she was sexually assaulted by seven men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell in October 2024 (October 19-20). The claim is hedged as an allegation, and no source disputes that the allegation was made, though no finding has yet been made on its truth.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True65% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Tompkins County District Attorney Matt Van Houten described Snapchat messages related to the Cornell assault case as morally disgusting.Said by 10BMultiple sources report that Van Houten called the Snapchat messages "disgusting" (People, AOL/PEOPLE) and quote him saying the conduct was "morally disgusting" (US Magazine), all from September 29, before the post. ABC reports his phrase as "morally disturbing," a minor wording difference that does not change the substance, so the claim is supported.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True90% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Tompkins County District Attorney Matt Van Houten stated that Jane Doe's original police statement described her drug use and sexual activity as voluntary and consensual.Said by 10BMultiple tier1 sources, including the Tompkins County DA's own primary statement, confirm Van Houten said Jane Doe's sworn November 2024 statement described her drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual. The extraction's 'at least some of' wording is consistent with the passage, and the 'Tomkins' spelling is a trivial misspelling of the county name.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True93% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Jane Doe reported the alleged assault to the Cornell University Police on November 8, 2024.Said by 10BMultiple sources, including the BBC and Snopes, state that Jane Doe reported the alleged assault to Cornell University Police on November 8, 2024, and the claim matches the post's own wording. The claim departs from the passage only in describing the report as the 'alleged assault', which is faithful to how the sources frame it.True70% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Jane Doe filed a formal Title IX complaint with Cornell University in January 2025.The claim faithfully matches the passage, and multiple sources place Jane Doe's formal complaint to Cornell's Title IX coordinator on January 14, 2025, with no source contradicting it. Most of the timeline details trace back to Doe's lawsuit, which caps confidence.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Matt Van Houten stated that Jane Doe gave police a comprehensive statement and made more than 20 handwritten corrections to that statement before signing it.Said by 10BVan Houten's own remarks are documented: AP quotes him describing Doe's 'very detailed, very comprehensive statement', and People quotes him saying she 'made 20-plus handwritten corrections' to it. The claim is about what he stated, so it holds; the dispute from Doe's attorney concerns the statement's content, not whether he said these things.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Under New York State law, voluntary intoxication does not by itself legally establish that a person was incapable of consenting to sex.Said by 10BMultiple tier-1 outlets (Reuters, AP, BBC) report that under New York law a person who voluntarily becomes intoxicated is not automatically considered incapable of consenting to sex, and only those drugged without consent are treated as mentally incapacitated. The claim matches the passage's wording, and the NYSACDL dispute concerns whether this is a 'loophole', not whether the legal rule exists.