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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Indie Scientologist running for Seattle city council on lingering anti-mask outrage

We’re always interested when Scientologists run for public office, which isn’t very often. In 2020, we wrote about a former Sea Org member running for city council in the Oregon town of McMinnville (she lost). There was a married couple who each ran for office in Nevada (one of them, Brent Jones, did serve as […]

June 18th, 2023 | Category: Scientology and COVID-19, Scientology and Politics | Leave a comment
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Trump might be going to jail because he listened to a beefy tough guy

 Some links to Q-related items today

Trump might be going to jail because he listened to this […]

June 17th, 2023 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

PODCAST: ‘Chicago Fire’ star Christian Stolte on his Scientology experience

 We had heard from some of you about our video interviews not going out on the usual podcast feed, so we think we have figured it out this […]

June 17th, 2023 | Category: Underground Bunker Podcast | Leave a comment

Everything’s fine at Twitter now, patriots, so come on back now

 Some links to Q-related items today […]

June 16th, 2023 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

THE WITNESS: Damian Perkins opens up about how the case against Danny Masterson began

 On March 19, 2015 at 9:44 in the morning, actor and dancer Damian Perkins received a text message on his phone from someone he had known only peripherally at the Church of Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity […]

June 16th, 2023 | Category: Scientology Jurisprudence | Leave a comment

Q-flavored fever dream: MTG going reptilian after cozying up to McCarthy!

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June 15th, 2023 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

Pete Griffiths on the unbearable rightness of being Scientologists

 On a recent post of Scientology’s success stories from Advance! magazine, Pete Griffiths spotted a name he […]

June 15th, 2023 | Category: Pete Griffiths, Scientology Armageddon | Leave a comment

Miami courthouse scene for Trump booking produces a protest dud

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June 14th, 2023 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment

Scientology fundraising is reaching epic levels of awesomeness, you doubters

 Look, you doubters can tell us that Scientology is shrinking, it’s having a tougher time in the courts, it’s getting the worst press in years, and church leader David Miscavige is hiding under a bed somewhere. But the truth is, the fundraising going on for new ‘Ideal Orgs’ is just hitting its […]

June 14th, 2023 | Category: Scientology Propaganda | Leave a comment

Sticking by their man: Trump heads to Miami for court appearance

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June 13th, 2023 | Category: Today in Q | Leave a comment
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