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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Now with no restrictions: Our podcast series on the Scientology docuseries that never aired

 In June, we started our experiment with Substack and asked readers to sign up for free emails so our stories would come right to your inboxes. Less than three months later, we now have more than triple the subscriber base we did previously, and you’ve all helped us reach a much larger []

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Keith Olbermann spoils everyone’s fun: Trump meeting on golf course is just… a golf meeting

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Keith Olbermann spoils everyone’s fun: Trump’s ‘Sopranos’ meeting on the golf course is just… a golf []

AUDIO: Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan says Rizza Islam is accused of ‘horrible charge’

[Rizza and Farrakhan in happier times]

This week we heard from multiple current and former Nation of Islam members who told us that on Wednesday they were called in for an all-hands ‘Believers’ Meeting’ at their local mosques in order to view a video address from leader Louis []

Michigan man sucked into QAnon after 2020 election shoots wife, daughter, dog

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Biden bring Trump along to the funeral? Q patriots are []

Court agrees to issue summons for Scientology leader David Miscavige in trafficking lawsuit

[Playing keepaway: David Miscavige in 2017, photo from his own website]

Tampa federal Judge Thomas Barber has agreed that Scientology leader David Miscavige has been evading service in a major new labor trafficking lawsuit that was filed in April, and he has given the plaintiffs a court summons they were asking []

On this solemn date, it’s pretty much what you would expect in Q patriot land

 Some links to Q-related items today…

On this solemn date, it’s pretty much what you would expect in Q patriot []

Scientology delivers superpowers, and here are the miracles to prove it!

 It’s that time again! Thanks to one of our correspondents, we have a new column from Scientology’s ‘Advance!’ magazine, its beloved feature, ‘OT Phenomena.’ We can’t get enough of it and we know you can’t []

Biden will attend Queen’s funeral, and some suggest he should bring 45 along

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Oh, []

PODCAST: Paulette Cooper has been exposing Scientology’s abuses for more than 50 years

[Paulette Cooper in 1967, before all the trouble started]

This week at the podcast, we’re coming back around to why we created the Underground Bunker to begin with. In 2012, we began working on a book that eventually gained the title The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, and we created our website in order to make sure the []

Q patriots in a frenzy after the death of one of their favorite sources of global conspiracies

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots are in a frenzy after the death of one of their favorite sources of global []