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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Mike Rinder’s ‘A Billion Years’: A gripping takedown of Scientology and its leader

 There are many books about Scientology now, including some put out by major publishers. If you wanted a robust history of where Scientology has been over many decades, you could turn to Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear, or the earlier, deeply researched investigations by Russell Miller (Bare-Faced Messiah) or Jon Atack (A Piece of Blue []

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Nearly a year later, the Q patriots waiting for the return of JFK/JFK Jr are wacky as ever

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The JFK/JFK Jr racket is a persistent []

In Los Angeles, shilling for Scientology becomes issue in mayor’s race

[Karen Bass and Rick Caruso]

 We’ve said it many times over the years: Scientology tries to convince local politicians to come to its events, and some of them do, not bothering to research Scientology’s long history of scandals and []

Q patriots can’t wait to take over the mainstream media when the storm comes

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots can’t wait to take over the mainstream media when the storm []

Watching Scientology lie to foreigners about ‘religious’ visas: A very personal account

[The Hollywood Celebrity Centre]

A thorough new piece in New York magazine about Scientology’s abuse of R-1 visas not only reminded us of research by RM Seibert for the Bunker that we published in 2016. It also inspired Sunny Pereira to send us this memory of what the R-1 visa abuse actually looked like at the []

Q patriots glad to be caught up in the most important conflict in history of good and evil

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots are just glad to be caught up in the most important conflict in the history of good and []

How Scientology manufactured New York Times bestsellers for L. Ron Hubbard

 We’ve received another account from a former Scientology manager who previously told us about the development of contracts in the church after the death of Lisa McPherson. This time, they gave us another timely look into Scientology’s []

‘Counter-sue her butt!’ Q patriots react to Trump being sued by NY AG Letitia James

 Some links to Q-related items today…

‘Counter-sue her butt!’ Q patriots react to Trumps being sued by NY AG Letitia []

PODCAST: Mark Bunker on Scientology’s sabotage of progress in Clearwater

 Thanks to the intrepid work of Tampa Bay Times reporter Tracey McManus, we learned this past week that Scientology continues its old tricks in Clearwater, the Florida city whose downtown was taken over by the church in a surreptitious takeover 45 years []

Mar-a-Lago docs: Q patriots figure Trump is setting an elaborate trap for the Dumbocrats

 Some links to Q-related items today…

While the latest news about the Mar-a-Lago documents sounds bad, Q patriots figure 45 is setting an elaborate trap for the satanic []