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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Val Ross: Scientology draws you in so you don’t realize what it’s about until it’s too late

[Val at her desk back in the day, the Grade Chart on the wall]

The spring of 1972, I was 17 and in my senior year of high school. The school was in Grants, New Mexico, 12 miles away from where we lived. I only had one class to finish to graduate, and was taking courses […]

February 4th, 2024 | Category: Valerie Ross | Leave a comment
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The convoy (without semis) ends up a shitshow (naturally)

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

February 3rd, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

PODCAST: Emails show which local politician was trying to stop IAS protest for Scientology

[Apostate Alex has the goods on Dick Sweatman]

Well, we’ve done it again. We’ve gone and collaborated with Apostate Alex and we think you’re going to like the […]

February 3rd, 2024 | Category: Scientology Armageddon | Leave a comment

MAGA plans to neutralize Taylor Swift with, um, Kid Rock

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

February 2nd, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

For the first time, read L. Ron Hubbard gushing about working with Leni Riefenstahl

[Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast]

We have a very special treat for you today, and it’s thanks to Mitch Brisker.

Mitch is one of the most interesting people to come out of Scientology in recent years, he has a memorable book out, and we’ve actually been talking to him for a couple of years. One […]

February 2nd, 2024 | Category: Hubbard In His Own Words | Leave a comment

Q patriots are with their man — win, lose, or thigh

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

February 1st, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

Scientology hopping mad after Mike Rinder and Claire Headley help out Leah Remini

 Last week, we told you that Mike Rinder and Claire Headley had filed new declarations with the Los Angeles Superior Court to help Leah Remini keep Scientology’s Religious Technology Center (RTC) from wriggling out of her lawsuit against the […]

February 1st, 2024 | Category: Leah Remini, Scientology Jurisprudence | Leave a comment

From conspiracy to atrocity: Pennsylvania horror as son beheads fed employee father

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

January 31st, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

Report: Elisabeth Moss’s father still trying to get back in Scientology’s graces when he died

[Ron Moss]

In April 2022, the New Yorker magazine published a profile of actress Elisabeth Moss and interviewed former Scientology Celebrity Centre fixture Geoff Levin.

At the time, we gave the magazine credit for asking Geoff about Moss’s Scientology involvement, something Moss herself is generally not very talkative […]

January 31st, 2024 | Category: Scientology Studies | Leave a comment

Right-wing convoy to the border stumbles out of the gate

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

January 30th, 2024 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment
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