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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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True92% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Spanish Supreme Court issued a decision regarding migration a few weeks prior to the mass migration event in Ceuta.Said by 3DThe Spanish Supreme Court issued a migration-related ruling on pushbacks of sea arrivals in Ceuta and Melilla about three weeks before the late-July mass entry into Ceuta, as Reuters and DW report. The post's claimed June date differs from the July 8 judgment in the sources, but the claim does not state a date, so this does not affect the verdict.True80% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Migrants have been stranded on the beaches in Ceuta, including migrants from Palestine, Yemen, Mali, and Sudan.Said by 3DAs of 2026-10-03, multiple tier1 and other sources (Reuters, AP, Al Jazeera, Mediapart, RFI, AFP/France24 coverage) report thousands of migrants stranded on Ceuta beaches, with named nationalities including Yemenis, Malians, and Sudanese among those remaining. The extraction faithfully reflects the passage's list of Palestine, Yemen, Mali, and Sudan; the sources document Palestinians and Yemenis on El Trampolin beach (Aug 2026), and Sudanese, Malian, and Yemeni asylum seekers on beaches, though the Palestinian element rests mainly on one aggregator-level mention. Later Reuters coverage (Sept 18) shows beach clearance operations, consistent with migrants still stranded on the beaches in September.True60% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Spain supported South Africa during the ICJ hearing.Said by 3DMultiple sources show Spain backed South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel by seeking and filing to join it as an intervening party, which supports the core claim. The sources do not tie Spain's move to the exact days of the hearing (Spain's intervention was announced in June 2024, after the May 2024 provisional-measures hearings), and the claim drops the post's word 'tremendous', which is a faithful extraction otherwise.True60% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026Spain has funded Moroccan border securitization.Said by 3DSources support the claim that Spain has funded Moroccan border control: a Spanish-government disbursement from the Contingency Fund in 2019 and analyses citing EU/Spanish border-control funding for Morocco. The extraction dropped the post's qualifier "often," which is a faithful-enough paraphrase, and no source contradicts the claim as of 2026-10-03; the evidence is thin and partly from an advocacy group.True60% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Spain has not reversed its 2021 decision regarding Western Sahara.Said by 3DSources published around the claim's date (MEI 2026-10-07, SYBIL 2026-10-09, POLITICO 2026-10-25) describe Spain's pro-Morocco autonomy stance as still in place, and none reports a reversal, so the claim that Spain has not reversed its position holds as of 2026-10-03. The sources date the shift to 2022, not 2021 as the passage says, but that date detail does not change the core assertion.True95% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The AfD party won a victory in a region of Germany.Said by 3DMultiple tier1 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC) confirm the AfD won a resounding victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 6, 2026, falling just short of an absolute majority, so the claim that AfD won a victory in a German region is supported; the claim's wording matches the passage's reference to AfD's victory in a region of Germany.True85% confidence11 sourcesOct 3, 2026Algeria and Spain have reestablished relationships in 2026.Said by 3DMultiple sources from March through September 2026 document Algeria and Spain restoring diplomatic relations: Algeria reactivated the 2002 friendship treaty in March, Sánchez visited Algiers in July 2026 as the first visit in four years, and a political consultation session was held in Madrid in September. The claim as on 2026-10-03 is supported; the post's 'reestablished relationships' matches the reported rapprochement, and the sources indicate the relationship had not been fully normalised on Western Sahara, which the claim does not assert.True95% confidence9 sourcesOct 3, 2026Macklemore was removed from a tour with Ed Sheeran after making pro-Palestine statements at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.Multiple tier1 sources (Reuters, AP, BBC) report that Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran's US Loop tour after pro-Palestinian 'Free Palestine' remarks during September 4 performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The claim matches the passage faithfully, and the core assertion is directly corroborated.True85% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Columbia University students initiated the encampments movement in the spring of 2024.Multiple sources agree that Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, set up April 17, 2024, was the first of the 2024 campus encampments and that it inspired encampments at other universities. The extraction is faithful to the passage, and no source contradicts the claim.True90% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Hindra Jab was a 5-year-old killed by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza in January 2024.The sources support the core claim: Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old, was killed in Gaza City in January 2024 after Israeli forces fired on the family's car, and in August 2026 the Israeli military acknowledged its troops fired on the vehicle and opened a criminal investigation. The post's spelling 'Hindra Jab' is a variant of Hind Rajab, and the sources disagree on her age (5 in AP, Gulf News and the bill; 6 in Reuters and Times of Israel), but the claimed age is supported by several sources.True95% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Robert Kraft stated he barred Macklemore due to recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran's shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery.Multiple reliable outlets, including AP and Reuters (tier 1), ESPN, UPI and NBC, quote a Kraft statement giving exactly these three grounds for barring Macklemore from the Gillette Stadium shows. The extracted claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post, and no source contradicts it.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True95% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Robert Kraft barred Macklemore from appearing at the Boston shows at Gillette Stadium.Multiple reliable outlets, including AP and Reuters, report that Robert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium, barred Macklemore from appearing at the Boston-area Sheeran shows there, and Kraft confirmed this in a statement to Rolling Stone and ESPN. Macklemore denies the antisemitism basis for the decision, and the Gillette shows were later canceled due to a nor'easter, which the sources report as a separate event.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.