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The stars at night are big and bright, on the fourth day of Creation!

 Australian fires. African locusts. Worldwide plague. Do we live in Biblical times or what? If the world really is ending, we thought it was time to prepare properly for Armageddon. By, you know, reading the damn thing. The Bible, that is. (Go back to the beginning []

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This is Scientology’s plan for bringing good ‘hygiene’ to your door

 In our ongoing coverage of Scientology’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, we’re seeing more evidence that reality is finally setting in, Scientologists are staying home, and some of the orgs are encouraging members to enroll in extension courses while in []

Fruit before man: The Creation gets this much right, at least

 Australian fires. African locusts. Worldwide plague. Do we live in Biblical times or what? If the world really is ending, we thought it was time to prepare properly for Armageddon. By, you know, reading the damn thing. The Bible, that is. (Go back to the beginning []

Scientology’s founder: ‘WE are going UP while the world is coming down!’

[Hubbard in 1973, hiding out in Queens, NY. (Photo by Jim Dincalci)]

In a time of crisis, Scientologists are naturally turning to the words of the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, looking for some way to make sense of []

Is the pandemic right out of the Bible? Maybe we ought to, you know, read this thing

 Australian fires. African locusts. Worldwide plague. Do we live in Biblical times or what? And with preachers from one end of the globe to the other squawking that the coronavirus is right out of the Bible and that we should all be preparing for the end of the world, and with many of us bored []

Scientology’s bizarre response to the pandemic: Handing out sketchy cleaning products

 Didn’t Scientology learn its lesson with its balloon debacle? []

The million-dollar donors keeping Scientology flush, New Year’s 2020 edition

 As we promised on Monday, we have for you today the greater whales who were celebrated at a special New Year’s “Patron’s Ball” in Beverly Hills, another opportunity for Scientology to celebrate its biggest []

The Right shifts from ‘it’s a real crisis’ to ‘let grandpa die for the economy’ almost overnight

[Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick]

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

[Regarding this article: Texas Lt. Gov.: Grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy]

Over the weekend the discourse on the Right coldly shifted from “Yes, we finally agree this is pretty serious” to “Y’know, the elderly []

Scientology leader David Miscavige calls the pandemic ‘planetary bullbait’ in epic briefing

[He’s not happy]

Over the last two weeks, Scientologists have been called in for a special briefing about the coronavirus pandemic and David Miscavige’s response to it. Scientology has been very careful not to allow this briefing to leak out to the public, telling Scientologists that they must come down to see it in []

The wealthy donors keeping Scientology in business, New Year’s 2020 edition

 Over the last few days we’ve been looking at Scientology’s schizophrenic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, and our comments section has been doing a great job keeping up on all of the coronavirus news, including late-breaking stuff like the yellow-jacketed Volunteer Minister idiots in Kansas City endangering the public while pretending to be helping []