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Reason Rally 2016 in Washington DC: The Underground Bunker wants to see you there!

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[“Repent heretics or be devoured by Almighty Cthulhu” — from Reason Rally 2012]

 
We had so much fun at the Reason Rally in 2012 we had already planned on going again this year. But then, the organizers were kind enough to ask us if we’d give the event a plug. Why sure!

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Scientology leader David Miscavige in Atlanta on Saturday: Can you feel the excitement?

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On Sunday, Rod Keller gave us the scoop: This coming Saturday at 2 pm, Scientology will open its newest “Ideal Org,” in the Atlanta area.

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Scientology pampered some of its big donors with a trip back in time to Phoenix in 1954

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As former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder has pointed out numerous times, church leader David Miscavige can’t let up for one moment on the new projects and fundraising appeals.

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Scientology at Comic Con: An attempt at a minor intervention, as told by Phil Jones

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[Emily Jones with a Terl model at the Salt Lake City Comic Con this week.]

For several months we’ve been following the drama surrounding the Jones family, which has been ripped apart by Scientology’s policy of “disconnection.” Phil and Willie Jones are former members of the Church of Scientology, and they are prevented from seeing their grown children, Mike and Emily, who are each members of Scientology’s “Sea Organization.”

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Scientology’s European mouthpiece speaks at DC event honoring Marco Rubio

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Time again for Rod Keller’s Scientology Social Media Review! Rod goes way back, having kept a meticulous eye on the church since 1992. He’s well known for his indispensable “ARS Week in Review,” which ran for nine years when ARS — the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology — was the most important daily source for Scientology news. More recently, Rod has made a specialty of hunting down the odd and wonderful things Scientologists post to social media. Rod is a chronicler who piece by piece builds a highly detailed assessment of what Scientology is doing around the world, and this is what he found for us this week…

 
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Talking Scientology with actor and podcaster Ethan McKinley

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For those of you who didn’t see it posted in the comments last night by a vigilant reader, we’re going to put up the interview we did yesterday with Ethan McKinley.

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Attorney for Scientology’s drug rehab centers threatens lawyer running anti-Narconon website

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Another day, another threat letter.

On Wednesday, we shared with you the latest threat letter Karen de la Carriere received from Scientology attorney Bert Deixler. Today, we have a salvo from Los Angeles attorney William H. Forman, who represents some Narconon entities, complaining about a website operated by Jonathan Little.

We’ve told you about Little in the past. He’s an attorney in Indianapolis handling several lawsuits against Narconon facilities. He’s just one of several attorneys around the country handling cases involving Scientology’s troubled drug rehab network, with no sign of its troubles subsiding soon.

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Chris Shelton: How Scientologists can use critical thinking to break free

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Chris Shelton has a valuable message for Scientologists of all kinds in his newest video. We thought you’d want to see it.

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Scientology attorney Bert Deixler takes another swing at Karen de la Carriere

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Bert Deixler

In January, Karen de la Carriere shared with us the threat letter she received from Scientology attorney Bert Deixler. You may remember how over the top it was; Deixler said in the letter that Karen should be “ashamed” for helping a television production company put together a piece about Phil and Willie Jones trying to reconnect with their grown children, Mike and Emily, who are members of Scientology’s Sea Org.

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Trial set in New York on April 7 over Narconon drug rehab hiding connection to Scientology

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In September 2014, we told you about a lawsuit against a Scientology “Narconon” drug rehab facility in Florida that was filed by a New York couple, Heidi and Nathaniel Gore. At that time, the lawsuit had survived a challenge by Narconon’s attorneys, who said it didn’t make sense for the Florida rehab to be sued in a New York court.

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