2020 | The Underground Bunker

Agency that wouldn’t check on Shelly Miscavige makes visit to Underground Bunker commenter

On Monday we posted a story that angered a lot of […]

Why investigate? — Barr so corrupt, he didn’t need to be told to intervene for Stone

[Stone, Trump, Barr]

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

[Regarding this story: WH Denies That Trump Pressured Barr To Reduce Stone’s Prison Sentence]

The framing for most of the stories asks whether Trump pressured Barr to intervene on Roger Stone’s behalf, but that’s the wrong question because the answer is […]

The skateboard hero & the anti-Semite: Insider report from Scientology’s bizarre celeb event

[The future of Scientology? Aaron Kyro and Tony Muhammad]

Monday afternoon, we received a copy of a flier advertising what sounded like a fairly bizarre event happening that night at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity […]

Another drone’s eye view of the compound where Scientology is keeping Shelly Miscavige

In 2016 an anonymous drone pilot who called himself ‘Angry Thetan’ contacted us with amazing footage over some of Scientology’s most secretive US sites, including the small mountain compound, ‘Twin Peaks,’ where we believe Scientology leader David Miscavige banished his wife Shelly back in […]

Chinese government puts ‘citizen journalist’ in suspicious quarantine over virus reporting

It is difficult to obtain reliable biographic info on Chen Qiushi. From the videos he posts he looks even younger than his 34 years. He has a law degree, if we can go by a troll who posted multiple times on his videos (denounced as a government hack in replies), saying that Chen is only […]

Another dog poisoned: Bobette Riales says harassment worse since suing Scientology

[Bobette Riales and her dog Jet]

Ten days after Chrissie Carnell Bixler and Cedric Bixler-Zavala had to put down a dog that ate meat laced with rat poison tossed into their Los Angeles yard, another plaintiff in their lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, Bobette Riales, says her dog began a 42-hour ordeal of vomiting, diarrhea, […]

One sure sign a new Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ is on the way: the Central Files mayhem

ODD, an upcoming “Ideal Org” slated for Mexico City, has started its Central Files project and it threatens to bury Scientologists under towers of paper folders. […]

Bad Vibrations: More Beach Boys agita, this time over Mike Love’s trophy hunters gig

[The president with Mike Love]

Brian Wilson is the best-known member of the Beach Boys, the 60s hit group with which he has had a contentious off-and-on relationship for years. Recently a petition was forwarded to him asking people to boycott the Beach Boys, and not even buy their old recordings any more. Wilson signed it, […]

War on wogs is hell: A peek inside Scientology right now, and it’s not pretty

More than once we’ve looked through the various fundraising fliers that Scientology puts out and we’ve wondered what it’s like for rank-and-file Scientologists to be under so much pressure, day after day, to show up for events and submit to David Miscavige’s hard-sell tactics in his ongoing war against the wogs. (That’s us […]

Barring New Yorkers from Global Entry feels unconstitutional in a hundred ways