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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Miss Lovely is still unbreakable: It’s Paulette Cooper’s birthday!

Once again, the very reason for the Underground Bunker’s existence is here again, as we celebrate Paulette Cooper’s birthday on July 26. It was while working on our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, that we created our website back in 2012 to keep in touch with our audience so they’d know when the []

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HBO ‘Q: Into the Storm’ couple plead guilty in Jan 6 case

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Why growing up in Scientology can be so damaging, even years after leaving

 Although this story is my personal experience, and many could have had variations of this, I think it’s worth noting what Scientology’s “applied religious philosophy” does to its youngest members as far as trauma and []

Ron ‘Q’ Watkins worries: Is the Barbie movie a form of mind control?

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Archival gems: When Scientology was on the hot seat in swinging London

We’ve mentioned that one of our readers specializes in tracking down obscure press clippings for us, and over the years he’s really done a good job of []

Scientology at San Diego Comic-Con: Toxic ‘disconnection’ on display again this year

 It’s not all fun and games at the San Diego Comic-Con as far as the Underground Bunker is []

Q patriots busy indoctrinating the next generation in Trumpist righteousness

 Some links to Q-related items today []

PODCAST: ‘Oppenheimer’ and Scientology, with physicist Bruce Hines

The highly anticipated new film Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, hit theaters yesterday, and we had a crazy idea: Watch the film on opening day here in New York while former Scientology auditor Bruce Hines caught it in Denver, and then talk about []

Supervillain: Good strategy for bloodthirsty Q patriots, but what about the rest?

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Valerie Haney: Here’s why the press should be asking Tom Cruise about Shelly Miscavige

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Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One hasn’t done quite the business that its creators were hoping, but still, with $91 million in domestic sales and $168 million overseas for a total of $259 million as of yesterday, it was well along to making up for its whopping $290 []