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-endorsed Senate candidate Blake Masters sources gun problem: Black people

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The GOP has solved the gun problem: It’s black []

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Scientology under scrutiny? A stunning new document in the Danny Masterson case

[Danny and Dave]

Sometimes, we just have to ask the question and see where it takes []

Q-nut Arizona politician Wendy Rogers is coming for your avocado toast, libturd

 Some links to Q-related items today…

 Put down that avocado toast, []

The Scientology celebrity exodus from LA to Clearwater continues

[Michael Peña and Brie Shaffer]

A year ago, we noted that there was anecdotal evidence to back up an assertion we’ve been making for some time, that Scientology’s gravitational center has been moving from Los Angeles to Clearwater, []

Peter Navarro indicted: It’s not nice to defy the Jan 6 committee

 Some links to Q-related items today…

It’s not nice to defy the []

The Insider speaks: Scientology’s recent crises, now in a podcast with Chris Shelton

 Late last year, we got some eye-opening reports on how hard the pandemic has been on Scientology from someone inside the organization. We dubbed them The Insider, and they told us about chaos caused by Covid, new details on the ‘Chase Wave’ financial debacle, a detailed description of the Ideal Org scam, and even told []

Billionaires don’t have time for this thing you call ‘democracy,’ peons

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law that would allow users to sue tech companies for “censoring” them, and Q patriots are not []

What Scientology’s nutty ‘OT 3’ — the Xenu tale — taught one member about Sea Org slavery

[An artist’s conception of Xenu from HBO’s ‘Going Clear’]

Summer 1984, Advanced Org Los Angeles. Alone in the small study room, heart pounding, mind overflowing with anticipation, I flipped open the folder containing the auditing instructions for OT 3, the secret level of Scientology known as the “Wall of Fire.” Finally, finally, after sixteen years in []

Rule #1 in MAGA-land: Don’t criticize Dear Leader

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Rule #1 in MAGA-land: Don’t criticize Dear []

Le Monde & Vanity Fair: FBI probes Russian oligarch financing of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

 [Yesterday’s breaking news: California supreme court denied Danny Masterson petition.]

On Sunday, just after our story about Tom Cruise and Scientology hit the home page of The Daily Beast, we received an email from a man named Andrew Eksner. He claimed that he was working with the FBI’s “Transnational Anti-Corruption Partnership with the headquarters at the []