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 actually found the one guy who joined because of a Super Bowl ad

[Fabio, and the 2016 ad that got him]

In 2012, Scientology made a huge tactical mistake, suing a former Sea Org official named Debbie Cook. What was Cook’s crime? She had dared to send around an email to other Scientologists complaining about the direction leader David Miscavige was taking the []

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Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago was festive, with Kanye and Fuentes

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Trump’s Thanksgiving was []

How the Danny Masterson trial looks inside the Church of Scientology

 We’ve had a couple of good pieces this year from a former Scientology Sea Org manager who is still “under the radar” and maintains relationships with many current, active Scientologists. They wrote about the development of service contracts in the church and also how bestsellers were made of Hubbard books. And this time, we thought []

Did you have to share turkey and stuffing with the satanic libturd Dumbocrats in your family?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Did you have to share turkey and stuffing yesterday with the satanic libturd Dumbocrats in your []

There she blows! More Scientology whales spotted, including some surprises

 On Wednesday we celebrated the arrival of the new Impact magazine, the Scientology publication that annually (and sometimes more frequently) names the biggest donors to the International Association of Scientologists (IAS), which is Scientology’s membership []

One nation under a conspiracy: It’s a Q-flavored Thanksgiving being served this year

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The conspiracies that motivated Paul Pelosi’s []

Special Thanksgiving Podcast: ‘A Billion Years’ author Mike Rinder on Scientology’s epic fails

[Illustration by Observer]

On September 27, we had the treat of meeting Mike Rinder in Manhattan on the publication day of his book, A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology. (See our review of the book []

Antivaxxers on Twitter: It’s gotta be true, it’s got an Elon-approved $8 blue check!

 Some links to Q-related items today…

It’s gotta be true, it’s []

Scientology’s richest in 2022: Where have all the whales gone?

 Our many thanks to the reader who forwarded us Scientology’s newest Impact magazine, our favorite of all the publications that Scientology denudes entire forests to put []

Elon restores personal account for MTG, who then tweets, ‘Alex Jones was right’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Elon restores MTG’s personal []