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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Trump campaign throws Q patriots a bone as rage following raid continues

[From “A Nation in Decline”]

 Some links to Q-related items today…

In an apparent 2024 campaign video, “A Nation in Decline,” the Trump team appears to include a song that’s a QAnon dog whistle. And Q patriots wonder, when will Trump reveal that he’s []

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Scientology scores major success with powerful new publicity effort

 We don’t give Scientology enough credit. We never would have thought the church was savvy enough, or that it had such a good sense of humor about itself, that it could convince Second City Television to reunite for a killer satire of all things L. Ron []

Nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago? Q patriots shrug and prepare their nail guns for war

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots rage at the FBI after the Mar-a-Lago raid, as you would []

PODCAST: She did Scientology’s dirty work, and then made historic amends for it

 As a Scientology watcher, you’ve probably had loads of fun soaking up Tom Cruise in a black turtleneck talking about what an L. Ron Hubbard fan he is in an infamous 9-minute video recorded in 2004 and leaked in 2008. Or you’ve plumbed the depths of the Hubbard death announcement event held at the Hollywood []

Jan 6 riot participant decided to attack FBI in Cincy, and paid for it with his life

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Attorney General Merrick Garland’s statement about approving the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago did not go down well with Q []

A shaky day handling life and death at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre

 I had just finished an interrogation session that I was doing on a Scientology registrar, because she wasn’t making enough money for the org. It wasn’t even actually my job, interrogations, but I was the preferred auditor for whatever []

Death threats and instant rallies: After the raid, Q patriots are unhinged

 Some links to Q-related items today…

 Patriots are []

Lured into your own past: The seduction of an initial Scientology session

[Pete Griffiths, fully hatted]

My first ever Dianetics session had a bizarre twist which at the time meant nothing to me. Years later it made me go, wow! Really? Did that really happen? Am I making this up? How accurate are memories []

After the Mar-a-Lago raid, patriot bluster about a ‘civil war’ is off the charts

 Some links to Q-related items today…

After the Mar-a-Lago raid, patriot bluster about a ‘civil war’ is off the []

Special series starting today: The best TV show on Scientology you never got to see

[Phil Jones]

In 2016, the A&E Network was preparing to take on the Church of Scientology in a big way.

What few people knew, however, was that the network was in a bit of a []