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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Scientology’s video to get you hyped to ring in 2026 at your local org!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology does its annual time-travel trick for New Year’s Eve. Church leader David Miscavige recorded the party in LA in the middle of December, and it will be shown at all of Scientology’s ‘orgs’ []

Libturds whine about Trump golfing his holidays away while country burns

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How desperate is Scientology to get your wedding to its cruise ship?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology bought a cruise ship so it could fleece victims as they sought the ultimate auditing level on the ‘Bridge to Total Freedom,’ known as OT 8. But it’s not enough to pay the []

Libturds howl as Trump cannily relies on Nicki Minaj to deliver policy truths

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The most honest Scientology recruiting video we’ve seen in a long time

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Crave a minimum-wage job in an expensive modern city? Do you look forward to telling people you can read their thoughts with a quack electronic device? If this sounds attractive, you might dig the []

Indiana GOP senator pummels AI version of Santa and libturds howl in protest

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Scientology’s prison for Shelly Miscavige isn’t very secure after all, video suggests

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday was our annual Christmas tribute to Shelly Miscavige, and now we have a Scientology item related to it. Although we tend not to report much about the goings on at YouTube, we appreciated []

Does Shelly Miscavige know it’s Christmas 2025?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Six years ago we decided Christmas Day would be a good time to review what we knew about Shelly Miscavige, wife to Scientology leader David Miscavige, who vanished in 2005. We wondered if Shelly, []

Trump threatens TV news networks for negative coverage

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