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Hanging out with Scientologists going door-to-door in ‘Volunteer Minister’ hazmat suits

 A big thanks to the reader who sent in the video he shot this week as he came across a couple of Scientologists near the Valley Org in Los []

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A strange and unsettling update to one of Scientology’s most awful recent scandals

[Marc and Barbara]

We are very fortunate to have a number of hardworking correspondents who operate behind the scenes and keep a close watch on everything Scientology does. []

Scientologist attorney gets her first ‘head on a pike’ with OC health officer resignation

[Leigh Dundas in full cry]

On May 26, we told you about David Miscavige’s rising new Scientology star, anti-vaxx “human rights attorney” Leigh Dundas, who is making a name for herself by pretending that public health officials asking people to wear masks to protect against a deadly pandemic is constitutional heresy and is tantamount to []

Judge calls Barr move to dismiss Flynn case ‘gross abuse of prosecutorial power’

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Maybe you recall Bill Barr’s DOJ doing a 180-degree turn on the Michael Flynn prosecution, to which Flynn had already pleaded guilty, moving to dismiss its case entirely. The judge arched an eyebrow and then appointed a retired federal judge, John Gleeson, []

Singing for L. Ron Hubbard in the Sea Org: New videos about the Scientology experience

 “I’m eating ice cream here, and I thought of []

Scientology ‘Sunday service’ has always been a lazy PR ploy, and now it’s on full display

 People who come out of Scientology after years or decades have a lot to tell you. About the auditing they went through, the training to be auditors, the special rundowns they might have experienced, or what it was liking working as a staff member or in the Sea Org. []

‘Defund the police’ is not about eliminating law enforcement but imagining something new

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Defund the police? Here’s what that really means]

Smart take on what “defund the police” actually means. It’s not about eliminating law enforcement but rather acknowledging how the criminal justice system has evolved to exacerbate problems instead of solve them []

Scientology’s obsession with City Councilman Mark Bunker is truly off the charts

 It probably would not surprise you to learn that once Mark Bunker was elected to the Clearwater city council in March, Scientology began obsessively submitting records requests to the city to get copies of every single communication Bunker has made either on his public or private devices and social media []

The unanticipated pandemic benefit: Nutty Scientology online videos

 One of the most surprising results of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been Scientology’s efforts to put more of its activities on video and online, and in recent weeks we’ve brought you the very strange results of that change. Today, we have two more leaked Scientology videos, this time from Down Under. []

Scientology mega-donor ABCMouse family is more complicated than we realized

[Seeing double: ‘Veronica Mars’ actor Jason Dohring is flanked by his brothers Rob (right) and Jon.]

A commenter alerted us to a pretty interesting situation that we thought deserved its own post. You know that for years we’ve kept an eye on Doug Dohring and his education software empire, which runs the hugely profitable subscription service []