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Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
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Raging against the extremes. Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov are in the middle — and they’re mad, because being a moderate in America these days does NOT mean staying silent. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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True90% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026Lula da Silva is 81 years old.Said by CMultiple sources confirm Lula turned 81 on October 27, 2026, the date the claim was posted, so he was 81 on that date. The extracted claim matches the passage, which says "Lula is 81 years old." Sources differ on his birth date (27 October 1945 in most reports, 6 October 1945 on the civil record cited by Veja), but both put him at 81 by 27 October 2026.True85% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026Only 34,000 votes were counted after the original deadline in the Brazilian election.Said by CThe claim that only about 34,000 votes were cast after the original 5 p.m. deadline matches the Superior Electoral Court data reported by Lead Stories (34,393), Folha (34,300), Ground News citing TSE (34,000 / 34,3 thousand), and BigNewsNetwork (about 34,000, 0.03% of ballots). The passage's 'came in after' wording and the claim's 'counted after' wording both refer to the same post-deadline votes, and the 4.4 million margin is also confirmed by AP and Reuters-based coverage.True95% confidence6 sourcesOct 27, 2026Lula da Silva won the election by 4.4 million votes.Multiple tier1 sources (AP, BBC) and electoral-court-based reporting confirm Lula won the 2026 Brazil runoff by nearly 4.4 million votes, matching the claim; the claim is a faithful extraction of the post's 'Lula won by 4.4 million votes' and the post's 'Lula' refers to Lula da Silva.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 27, 2026Viktor Orban is being discussed as a candidate for UN Secretary General.Said by CMultiple sources published 2026-10-25 to 2026-10-30 report that Viktor Orbán was being discussed as a UN Secretary-General candidate, based on a WSJ report that the Trump administration floated him, so the claim held as of 2026-10-27. The discussion is unconfirmed and disputed: Russia said it would not nominate him, and Hungary's PM and France rejected the idea, but none of that makes the discussion itself false.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026SNAP program cuts have impacted close to 500,000 people in Arizona.Said by 3CSeveral sources put the Arizona SNAP losses at roughly 457,000 to 500,000 people, so 'close to 500,000' falls within the reported range. One Arizona Daily Star/Arizona Republic-syndicated report cites about 400,000 losses from state DES figures, a different measure and period, and the claim's wording is taken faithfully from the passage.True85% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026The Lucid EV plant in Pinal County, Arizona, laid off about 700 people.Said by 3CMultiple sources report that Lucid laid off 705 employees at its Casa Grande, Arizona plant (in Pinal County) in June 2026, which matches the claim's 'about 700.' The post's 'Penalo County' is a transcription error for Pinal County, and the referent resolves to Casa Grande, so the claim does not depart from the passage.True82% confidence4 sourcesOct 27, 2026Juan Ciscomani voted for Medicaid cuts as part of the Big Beautiful Bill.Said by CMultiple sources confirm Ciscomani voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which contains Medicaid cuts, so the vote claim holds. Sources also show he pushed to soften the Medicaid provisions and argue the cuts would have been larger without his efforts, which is context rather than contradiction.True80% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026Juan Ciscomani voted against a War Powers Resolution several times.Said by 3CMultiple roll-call records and a PBS broadcast show Rep. Juan Ciscomani voted against Iran-related War Powers Resolutions, including H.Con.Res. 93 on Sept. 15, 2026, and several others, so 'several times' holds. The post names 'Mr. Siskamani,' which the sources treat as Ciscomani, and the Substack fact-check says his no votes on May 14, June 3 and Sept. 15 are confirmed while the total of six is plausible but not fully confirmed.True85% confidence8 sourcesOct 27, 2026Gallup released a poll where Republicans ranked patriotism as the number one value the country needs, while Democrats ranked it last.Said by CMultiple reports of the Gallup/With Honor survey state that Republicans ranked patriotism first among the 12 values the country most needs, and Democrats ranked it last. The extracted claim matches the post's wording, and the poll was released in late October 2026 as the post describes.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence8 sourcesOct 27, 2026Approximately 30 million Americans have already voted in the 2026 midterm elections.The claim matches the record as of the claim's 2026-10-27 date: a fact-check piece published 2026-10-26 reports that the University of Florida Election Lab counted about 30 million early votes, and the trajectory from about 21 million (Oct 23) to 23 million (Oct 23, IBTimes) to 43 million (Oct 29-30) is consistent with that figure. Later sources show the total rose well past 30 million, but that does not make the claim false as of its date.True92% confidence4 sourcesOct 27, 2026Gadi Eisenkot is the leader of the Yashar Party.Multiple tier1 sources, including Reuters (Oct 23) and BBC (Oct 24), describe Gadi Eisenkot as leader of the Yashar party, and AP and CNN later say the same. The claim is faithful to the post, and the situation held on 2026-10-27, the date it was made.True95% confidence5 sourcesOct 27, 2026JoAnna Mendoza is a candidate in Arizona’s 6th District.Multiple sources, including AP, the Arizona Daily Star/Arizona Republic, New Politics, AZPM, and VoteSee, confirm JoAnna Mendoza is the Democratic candidate in Arizona's 6th Congressional District running against incumbent Republican Juan Ciscomani, and she was already the nominee as of late October 2026. The claim matches the passage's own wording, and the sources' coverage of her candidacy predates and extends past the 2026-10-27 posting date.