‘Cult City’ Ted takes a body blow from the Tampa Bay Times, but says it won’t slow him down

We listened in on Saturday’s “Cult City” tour of downtown Clearwater over a phone line, and we enjoyed what we could hear. It was fun to hear Mike Rinder, for example, talk about what really went on inside the Clearwater Bank building, a noted Scientology landmark.

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Scientology goes after Mike Rinder with a document he gave only to Marty Rathbun

[Former pals, Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun]

On Saturday, in anticipation of the L. Ron Hubbard birthday walking tour in Clearwater, we posted a letter from Scientology secretary Glen Stilo to show that the church was really panicking about the tour.

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Scientology whistleblower Steve Fishman: Out of prison and getting younger every day

The last time we checked on Steve Fishman, he was serving a 21-year prison sentence in California.

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Leah Remini spots Scientology’s best self-own in a long, long time

Leah Remini spotted this item while she was on Twitter and brought it to our attention. Here’s what she told us about it…

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L. Ron Hubbard is 110 years old, and Scientology is ready for its close-up!

Wherever he is off researching new auditing levels without a physical body, L. Ron Hubbard is 110 years old today, or at least the version of Hubbard that was born on March 13, 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska.

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UCLA’s voice of the Rose Bowl & Pauley Pavilion scores Scientology Super Power!

[Chuck White at Pauley]

Yesterday’s news about David Miscavige becoming a fixture at the Flag Land Base wasn’t the only interesting thing we found in the latest issue of Scientology’s Source magazine.

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New Scientology magazine boasts that David Miscavige is now a Florida fixture

Our thanks to the reader who shared with us the new issue of Source magazine, Scientology’s propaganda rag for its Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida.

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If Danny Masterson’s accusers take lawsuit to Calif. supreme court, they will have issues

[Is Chrissie Carnell-Bixler headed for the state supreme court?]

Yesterday, we reported the stunning news that an appeals court denied the petition filed by Danny Masterson’s accusers. The court, like in Valerie Haney’s case, found that these plaintiffs suing Scientology can appeal their cases — but only after they go through Scientology’s “religious arbitration,” not before.

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PETITION DENIED: Danny Masterson accusers can’t skip Scientology arbitration, court says

[Justices Baker, Rubin, and Moor]

The California 2nd Appellate Division just delivered the stunning news that it is denying the petition filed by Danny Masterson’s accusers, which had asked the court to reverse a ruling by a lower court that forced their lawsuit into Scientology’s internal “religious arbitration.”

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Civil case on ice (for now), and will Danny Masterson show for next criminal hearing?

[We may get a repeat of this performance in a couple of weeks]

There was a court hearing yesterday in the Danny Masterson civil lawsuit that we had a chance to listen in on, and we have some other updates to the litigation that we’ve been watching here at the Underground Bunker.

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