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 tells court: Two arbitrators have agreed to serve in Valerie Haney case

 Last week we told you that attorney Graham Berry had taken charge of Valerie Haney’s case in a big way, submitting filings which included new names for possible arbiters in her lawsuit against Scientology, which has been forced into “religious []

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Tucker Carlson, privately: QAnon driven by ‘misdirected religious impulses’

 Some links to Q-related items today

More Tucker Carlson []

Scientology documentary resurfaces, and it leads to a foreign exchange program!

[Rod Keller and Stacy Young, 1998]

We recently heard from Peter Reichelt, an Austrian journalist, and what an interesting name from Scientology journalism’s []

When the Kraken is actually released, for reals y’all: ‘The wind tells me I’m a ghost’

 Some links to Q-related items today

When the Kraken is really released, for []

Is this Scientology’s greatest fundraising flier ever? It’s ‘Mission Earth’ stupendous!

 You know them, Scientology’s stupendously long fundraising fliers that they put out after a big money-grubbing event. In this case, it was an event to raise cash for the long-forlorn project in []

Tucker’s attempt to recast Jan 6 as peaceful sightseeing tour isn’t flying with experts

 Some links to Q-related items today

Tucker’s attempt to recast Jan 6 as peaceful sightseeing tour isn’t flying with []

Scientology: Trafficking suit has a Waffle House problem. ALSO: Newiga sings in Tokyo!

[Newiga takes Tokyo!]

 The Bunker’s own Newiga flew over to Tokyo to run in the marathon there, and then did us a favor by going to the Scientology Ideal Org, snapping some photos, and even sang a little song for us []

Don’t vote early, Q patriots. Pillow guy says so.

 Some links to Q-related items today

Don’t vote early, Q patriots. Pillow guy says []

Jenny Burpee, former Scientology Sea Orger and Cat White friend who helped find her, dead at 39

 In September and October 2015, we found ourselves at the Underground Bunker scrambling to keep up with a major national story that we’d helped to break: Actor Jim Carrey’s girlfriend, Cathriona “Cat” White, had been found dead of an apparent suicide at 30. We were the first to add the detail that Cat, an immigrant []

Trump delivers red meat at CPAC: ‘I am your retribution’

 Some links to Q-related items today

CPAC comes through for []