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]
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You read about her encounter on a plane, now hear Tammy Synovec’s Scientology saga

 Tammy Synovec’s tale about sitting down next to a Scientologist on a flight out of Los Angeles generated a big reaction. For three hours, she had an opportunity she’d been hoping would happen for a long time: To talk to a current Scientologist about the problems she saw when she was a […]

January 13th, 2024 | Category: Scientology Studies | Leave a comment
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Loomer: Nikki Haley’s losing, so she called in a HAARP blizzard to disrupt the Iowa caucus

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

January 12th, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

Scientology has a permit in Austin for this Saturday, but the ‘Ideal Org’ looks unready

What is going on, Dave?

Scientology leader David Miscavige boasted more than a year ago that he was going to open up four new “Ideal Orgs” in the first quarter of 2023, and nothing happened. Then, in November (at the IAS gala) and December (at the New Year’s event) he bragged that the four were definitely […]

January 12th, 2024 | Category: Ideal Orgs | Leave a comment

AI Chronicles: George Carlin is back from the dead to entertain you

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

January 11th, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

Mark ‘Warrior’ Plummer, Scientology critic and archivist, 1951-2024

One of the highlights of our 2015 book tour was a stop in Austin, Texas, when we finally got a chance to meet a legend, a former Scientologist who had made a name for himself amassing one of the most comprehensive collections of Scientology archival material […]

January 11th, 2024 | Category: R.I.P. | Leave a comment

As Haley catches up, nervous Trump shares bogus theory that she’s ineligible

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

January 10th, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

Leah Remini wants an injunction to muzzle Scientology, and now we have the church’s reply

[Leah Remini and Scientology attorney William Forman]

We told you that on Friday, Judge Randolph Hammock told both sides in Leah Remini’s lawsuit against the Church of Scientology to stop burying him in filings ahead of what is now an important January 16 […]

January 10th, 2024 | Category: Leah Remini, Scientology Jurisprudence | Leave a comment

Major source of QAnon disinfo has been ID’d in new report

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

January 9th, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

English councillors squirm over question about Scientology abuses

 Yesterday, Alexander “Apostate Alex” Barnes-Ross attended (virtually) a meeting of the East Grinstead Town Council, the city where Scientology maintains its UK Headquarters at Saint Hill. Alex spoke up during the period for public questions, and then sent us this account of how it all went […]

January 9th, 2024 | Category: Scientology Armageddon | Leave a comment

GOP leaders embrace Trump’s most extremist views, calling Jan 6ers ‘hostages’

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

January 8th, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment
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