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 smears Alex Barnes-Ross daily, and what else is there to do but sing about it?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Geoff Levin has a treat for us on Christmas Eve — another song! And this time about the smears Scientology has been aiming at Alex Barnes-Ross, who had another monster year. Check out the []

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Trump still talking about taking over Greenland, and Denmark isn’t happy

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Scientology’s next headache at UK headquarters: The water main right under its plans

[Alex Barnes-Ross is keeping an eye on Dave’s troubles]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As if the prospect of slaughtering protected newts wasn’t bad enough, Scientology has another headache that may hold up its expansion plans for its UK headquarters: []

Q patriots and the grift-o-sphere are getting behind Vance for ’28

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Proof, finally, that sticking with Scientology for many years does wonders for your mind

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It’s not every day that we get success stories like this out of Scientology, and from someone who has a pretty interesting past in the church. Are you being held down by negative case? []

Libturds howl at the redactions in the Epstein files

 Some links to Q-related items today []

The Underground Bunker’s 2025 Scientology year-in-review starts today!

[David Miscavige and his targets, clockwise: The White House, East Grinstead, the 2nd Appellate District, and Clearwater]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A happy winter solstice to our northern hemisphere readers! And to our antipodean friends, enjoy your summer! Yes []

Putting Scientology’s data breach in perspective with a similar leak from the past

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’re still waiting for the repercussions over a recent data breach suffered by Scientology’s UK headquarters, hacked by a ransomware gang. In the meantime, we thought you’d like to see a similar leak of []

More troubling Epstein photos come out ahead of the files release

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Scientologist-led startup Dream Exchange sues whistleblower after SEC flop

[Jeff Ferrell (right) and the leaders of Dream Exchange, including Joe Cecala, left]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Dream Exchange, the Chicago startup led by Scientology donor Joe Cecala, in the wake of losing out on SEC approval to become []