Tony Ortega | The Underground Bunker

Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]

Priscilla Presley hangs out with Scientology celeb and longtime friend Gottfried Helnwein

Lisa Marie Presley was very adamant about it: She told us that after her disastrous trip to the Flag Land Base in October 2014, not only did she no longer consider herself a Scientologist, but she told her mother Priscilla and her daughter Riley Keough that they were coming out of the church with […]

Mitch and other old guard bailing out as MAGA swamps the GOP

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Scientology finally to open Chicago ‘Ideal Org’ — but it’s been soaking locals for a generation

[Dave is opening Ideal Orgs again]

Now that the confetti has settled in Austin, we’re wondering if Scientology is going to hold to its announced schedule and open Ideal Orgs in Mexico City on Friday and Chicago on […]

As AI floods our feeds, the Internet (1983-2024) is now officially dead

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Heber Jentzsch is 88, but Scientology still makes this surprising claim about him

[Heber Jentzsch at Maiden Voyage in 2006]

Yesterday, Valerie Ross provided another of her fascinating glimpses into the life of a Scientologist, someone so dedicated to the cause that she had, at one time, infiltrated and spied on the FBI for Scientology’s espionage wing, the Guardian’s […]

If MAGA rap videos aren’t a sure sign of the storm, what could possibly be?

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Scientology in the ‘good’ old days: Prison of belief just as confining as today

[Heber Jentzsch at a protest over the 1977 FBI raid of Scientology]

People talk about how the old timers say it was fun in the “good old days,” back when L. Ron Hubbard ran Scientology. And it did seem like it was more fun than it would be these […]

Nazis at CPAC? NBC says they were mingling openly as CPAC cries foul on report

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Scientology gushes about David Miscavige’s ‘Ideal’ appearance in Austin

Before Scientology’s Austin “Ideal Org” becomes, like the other 64 Ideal Orgs that came before it, an afterthought, we’re giving one more look at its Saturday grand opening, this time with a glance at Scientology’s own version of what […]

Trump already rules the Elite Universe, libturds, so just give it up

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