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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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True85% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026On September 25, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to use a Department of Homeland Security citizenship database to purge voter rolls.Multiple tier1 and primary sources confirm the Supreme Court's September 25, 2026 emergency order, decided 6-3 along ideological lines, allowing the Trump administration to use DHS's revamped SAVE citizenship database to check voter rolls. The 'purge' framing is supported by some outlets, but sources also note the NVRA bars broad purges within 90 days of an election, which limits the ruling's practical impact this year.True85% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Nevada state officials determined that the 185 individuals flagged by the Department of Homeland Security as non-citizens were actually U.S. citizens.Nevada election officials said their records showed all 185 people DHS flagged as noncitizens were U.S. citizens, and multiple reliable outlets report this. The claim matches the post's wording; the DOJ and DHS dispute whether Nevada's records amount to proof, but that disputes the evidence standard, not Nevada's determination.True95% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Supreme Court granted a stay of a district court ruling that had blocked the Trump administration's implementation of the modified SAVE database for voter verification.The Supreme Court on September 25, 2026 granted the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Sooknanan's district court ruling that had blocked the revamped SAVE database, as reported by AP and Reuters. The claim matches the passage's wording, and the post's 'last week' timing is consistent with the September 25 order.True80% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Currently, 27 U.S. states use the SAVE system to verify voters.Government filings show 27 states using SAVE for voter verification as of early fall 2026, consistent with the claim as of 2026-10-03. Other sources give slightly different counts ("over 27" from USCIS, 28 registered per Ballotpedia), reflecting differences in whether states are registered versus actively using the tool.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Homeland Security is allowed to use confidential data from the Social Security Administration based on Section 1373 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.The Supreme Court's September 25, 2026 emergency order stayed the lower-court block on the revamped SAVE database, with the majority reasoning that 8 U.S.C. §1373 of IIRIRA expressly authorizes DHS to receive citizenship-related information from agencies including SSA. The order is interim (a stay pending appeal that found plaintiffs likely to lose), not a final merits ruling, but the claimed core holding is accurately reported.Disputed in the post.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.