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 protest goes off without a hitch, and Tom Cruise made the scene

We hope you joined our live conversation yesterday afternoon with Alex Barnes-Ross, who was in an East Grinstead pub and told us about his adventures protesting at Scientology’s UK []

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Mar-a-Lago is a nonstop party, the surest sign that the storm is near

 Some links to Q-related items today []

David Miscavige says Leah Remini hasn’t served him (but Dave’s not here and you don’t see him)

 Jeffrey Riffer is back! Scientology leader David Miscavige’s personal attorney has once again made the scene, and he’s doing his best to keep Dave out of the lawsuits filed by Leah Remini and Jane Doe []

The usual gang provided spooky fun at Mar-a-Lago for their main man

 Some links to Q-related items today []

PODCAST: Has Scientology nixed the protest’s road closure? Alex has the update

 Yesterday we told you that Alexander “Apostate Alex” Barnes-Ross had succeeded at getting the main road to Scientology’s UK headquarters shut down for his planned protest and march, making it a challenge for the Scientologists to get to their event, which begins on []

John Fetterman gives the conspiracy nuts a fine how do you do

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Jenna Elfman will emcee Scientology concert in England that sees David Miscavige’s return

[Jenna Elfman will introduce the Jive Aces before they perform Sunday at Scientology’s concert]

Our friend Alexander “Apostate Alex” Barnes-Ross has come through again as he prepares for a major protest at the IAS gala this weekend, including a march on []

Speaker Johnson is busy scrubbing online past, like wife’s nutty counseling group

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Scientology’s attack on Leah Remini’s suit: How the church responds to claims of interference

[Scientology’s response to claims it interfered with Leah’s game show: So what?]

On Saturday, we gave you some sense of what’s in Scientology’s huge attack on Leah Remini’s lawsuit, a blast of court documents and exhibits that totals more than a thousand []

NRA puts out ad with our new pious Speaker in wake of another deadly gun rampage

 Some links to Q-related items today []