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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Judge Olmedo begins quizzing prospective jurors in the Danny Masterson retrial

 It’s Day Three of the Danny Masterson retrial in Los Angeles, and jury selection is going to start getting a lot more involved. In the first two days, Judge Charlaine Olmedo had four sets of prospective jurors fill out questionnaires. Today, she’ll begin quizzing them individually about their []

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While waiting for the storm, Q patriots can get pretty loopy

 Some links to Q-related items today

Mar-a-Lago dream []

Day one at the Danny Masterson retrial was wild, what’s in store for day two?

[Attorney Shawn Holley and former Sea Org official Claire Headley]

We had wondered how the Danny Masterson retrial might be different than the first trial, which ended in a hung jury on November 30. And wow, on day one of the retrial yesterday, we really got some confirmation that the differences could be pretty []

Q patriots have the best cures: Drink it up!

 Some links to Q-related items today

Q patriots have the best []

Danny Masterson, the retrial: Jury selection begins this morning and we’re on scene

[Masterson and his defense attorney, Philip Cohen]

Jury selection begins this morning in the Danny Masterson retrial at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los []

MTG appears to be about to release a Christian Nationalist screed and Bible

 Some links to Q-related items today

MTG, going to the next []

Group Therapy, Ep. 16: The full gang is back, with an episode for everyone!

 With the Danny Masterson retrial starting tomorrow, we’re shifting gears and preparing for some hard work in the weeks []

Pro-Trump ad hits DeSantis for his (supposed) pudding-fingers

 Some links to Q-related items today

Oh, those []

VIDEO: Scientology’s post-pandemic comeback starts right here, space cadets!

 There’s nothing like a Scientology hype video to get our blood pumping, and we knew you’d want to see this latest offering from the []

Trump, unhappy with having to testify, refers to AG Letitia James as ‘a racist’

 Some links to Q-related items today

This liaison gets worse and []