What is it going to take for the LA Times to take the threat of Rizza Islam seriously?

[Rizza Islam gets the Alex Jones endorsement, August 3]

Alex Jones admitted that he was envious. On August 3, the guest on his Infowars program was Rizza Islam, who, we told you earlier, had been named one of the 12 biggest sources of online disinformation about vaccines.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 8: Recovering unspeakable acts from the past

You are probably aware that evangelicals who are “young-Earth Creationists” figure that our planet is only about 6,000 years old, right? But were you aware that Scientology is notable because it also has a pretty warped idea about the age of our universe — except in the other direction.

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Why isn’t Scientology promoting the Covid-19 vaccines like it did hand-washing and masks?

Scientology leader David Miscavige was angry. The emerging pandemic had arrived in the US in 2020 just in time to shut down one of Scientology’s holiest rituals of the year, its March 13 celebration to mark founder L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday.

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Judge Charlaine Olmedo on point: What was said in court about Danny Masterson’s subpoenas

[Danny Masterson and his legal team, Appelbaum and Mesereau, last September]

On August 9 we were on a family trip but we were able to appear at a court hearing in Los Angeles with a web link supplied by the court. We were there to watch our attorneys, Scott Pilutik and Graham Berry, ask Judge Charlaine Olmedo to quash a rather aggressive subpoena that Danny Masterson’s attorneys, Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum, had slapped us with some weeks earlier.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 9: Mocking up an automobile out of thin air

We’ve been counting down the Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor.

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Laura Prepon claims she’s out: ‘For Scientology this is catastrophic’ says Mike Rinder

[Laura Prepon, just six years ago, in a Scientology magazine]

We saw a lot of people on social media celebrating yesterday’s People magazine interview with Laura Prepon, in which the Orange is the New Black actress said she hasn’t practiced Scientology for the last five years.

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Danny Masterson accusers answer Scientology’s salvo at California appeals court

[Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and Danny Masterson]

[UPDATE: Laura Prepon follows Beck’s lead by mentioning in a People interview today that she’s been out of Scientology for five years. Given her association with Danny Masterson and past intimidation of one of his victims, she has more to explain. We’ve asked Leah Remini for her thoughts, but she’s taping six episodes of her game show today so it may be a while before we hear from her.]

“I changed my mind” is not a defense: That’s what Scientology told a California appeals court last month, asking the court to uphold an earlier decision that essentially killed a lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s rape accusers against the That ’70s Show actor and the Church of Scientology itself.

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Danny Masterson’s nutty lawsuit involving his house loan is finally kicked out of court

[Danny and his circular Hollywood property]

While we’ve been covering Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson’s very serious criminal investigation and court case over the last several years, we also happened to discover something not to so serious that he was also involved with in federal court.

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Underground Bunker readers assemble, and Scientology spies freak out

[Willie and Pan]

Willie and I drove into the city yesterday to meet up with some good friends at the Toronto Scientology Org at 696 Yonge St. Aside from meeting with some awesome people I wanted to have a look to see if Scientology had finally, after years of raising millions of dollars, even gotten started with renovations.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 10: Drying out from space coke