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[Jasper has company!]We started seeing new ads for Scientology’s Sea Org a few weeks ago, and now it’s coming in a flood. Continue reading Scientology’s new campaign to get you to sign its billion-year contract is here!
[David Miscavige in 2001, just weeks after 9/11]On this solemn 20th anniversary, we are continuing to look back at the events that changed our lives in such significant ways on September 11, 2001. Yesterday, we had a piece at The Daily Beast about Scientology’s reaction to 9/11, and described how Bruce Hines was on the roof of the 46th Street org when the attacks began. We also talked to Mike Rinder about how underwhelming he found the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Program, which started in 2003, when he took Barbara Walters through it. Continue reading On 9/11, Scientology leader’s ‘wake-up call’ was supposed to expand the church
[Bruce Hines at the time he was in the Sea Org, with his sister Lindy]Over at the Daily Beast today we have a story looking back at Scientology’s reaction to the 9-11 attacks in New York for the 20th anniversary of that infamous day. In the story, we featured Bruce Hines, who was actually on the roof of the New York org that morning when the attacks began. His work at Ground Zero aiding first responders had a profound effect on him and led him, two years later, to ditch Scientology altogether. But making that decision was just the beginning of an amazing story, and he tells it himself in this gripping narrative. Continue reading After Scientology’s 9-11 fakery, a Sea Org slave makes his dicey run for freedom
We understand that a lot of our liberal friends are unhappy with the state of Texas right now, thanks to its insane new law that aims to turn the state’s residents into anti-abortion bounty hunters. But Scientology has a new “Ideal Org” that needs opening in the hippie-liberal blue island of Austin, and we’re here to help! Continue reading Let’s help the new Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ in Austin get staffed up!
Academy Award-nominated actress and Scientology celebrity Anne Archer is still going strong with her very own Scientology front group, Artists for Human Rights. Continue reading Anne Archer is still pitching her Scientology front group ‘Artists for Human Rights’
On Thursday, Salon writer Melanie McFarland noted that it was like clockwork: Whenever challenges to abortion rights come up on social media, there’s a reflexive use of imagery from Hulu’s series ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ And with this past week’s news out of Texas, with a law there literally putting bounties on the heads of people facilitating abortion procedures, the memes featuring women in red robes were ubiquitous as comparisons were made between the Lone Star state and the theocracy of Gilead portrayed in the series. Continue reading Why Scientology celebrity Elisabeth Moss is problematic as an icon of reproductive rights
It’s Labor Day here in the United States, when we celebrate the struggle by brave workers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to bring us such things as the weekend. Continue reading On this Labor Day, some insane stories of labor in Scientology’s ‘Sea Org’
In 1950, a well known writer for the pulps, L. Ron Hubbard, announced that he had figured out the meaning of existence. In his book published that year, Dianetics, he revealed that the thing propelling all life was the compulsion to survive. Continue reading Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 1: Shattering the suppression from a 15-year-old
We got a big reaction to our piece on Monday about the Scientology affiliate, Mace-Kingsley in Clearwater, Florida, that targets infants and toddlers for their first experiences of a lifetime of L. Ron Hubbard dedication. Continue reading Liz Gale: The Scientology auditing of kids at Mace-Kingsley was my childhood
Are you ready, Chicago? Scientology is itching to open its new Ideal Org downtown, which has been delayed because of the pandemic, and a new video sent out yesterday to members suggests that the grand opening is just around the corner. Continue reading VIDEO: Scientology prepares Chicago takeover, will target college student dorms downtown
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