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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A deeply red-pilled Roseanne Barr becomes a Q-gathering headliner

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Before Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard wanted to be thought of like one of his pulp fiction heroes

 In 1938, L. Ron Hubbard was a 27-year-old budding celebrity living in Bremerton, Washington, across the Puget Sound from Seattle, and in relative []

‘He hated Black people’: Jacksonville shooter had swastikas on his AR-15

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Is this the lamest tabloid ‘Tom Cruise has left Scientology’ speculation ever?

 You’ll have to forgive us that we didn’t get to this sooner, because we were just out of surgery and lying rather helpless in a hospital bed last week when the Daily Mail’s entertainment gossip columnist Alison Boshoff “reported” that Tom Cruise has stopped going to Scientology’s UK headquarters for the past three []

Trump supporters are keeping his Georgia arrest in perspective

 Some links to Q-related items today []

PODCAST: Jonny Jacobsen, our man in Paris, was on Scientology’s abuses before most

 We’ve had a lot of fun recently talking to great reporters who have covered Scientology like John Sweeney, Mark Ebner, and Steve Cannane. So of course we wanted to check in with our man in Paris, one of the very best journalists we know, Jonny []

Trump booked, goes for the glower in his mug shot

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Stan Lee* helps Scientology raise money from beyond the grave!

[*Stan Lee is dead. This is Jim Meskimen, Scientology’s most loyal clown.]

We know this to be true: Scientology wants every last one of your dimes and pennies, even after you’ve gone to your great []

What a strange trip it’s been, Rudy

 Some links to Q-related items today []

‘Harass and discourage’: The role of lawyers and journalists in Scientology’s attack plans

[Vanity Fair reporter John Connolly, right]

In the third and final part of a deep dive by historian Chris Owen into Scientology’s machinery for attacking its critics and gaining influence, we’ll look at the role of lawyers and the Office of Special Affairs in litigation and lobbying. See part one here and part two []