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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Jesus, Superman, and other fictional heroes: GOP’s Crenshaw steps in it and Q patriots react

 Some links to Q-related items today…

At a fundraiser, Houston’s GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw didn’t like how an 11-year-old read back a quote of his in which he appeared to refer to Jesus Christ as a fictional character (along with Superman). It’s pretty obvious he didn’t mean it that way, but it’s the manner in which []

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Leah Remini interviews one of the original online troublemakers: Andreas Heldal-Lund

[Andreas and Tory in Toronto, 2015]

For their podcast this week Leah Remini and Mike Rinder talked to one of the original online troublemakers, and a great guy we have had the pleasure of knowing for many []

AZ rally: Q patriots know that Trump has to lie to them — Heck, that’s not even Trump (It’s JFK)

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Read between the lines, []

You recruited people to Scientology: After you’re out, how do you deal with the regret?

 This week on Facebook Karen Pressley, the former Celebrity Centre executive who published her memoir Escaping Scientology in 2017 and appeared on Leah Remini’s A&E series, posted something we thought was really worth bringing to your []

Q-dad and the JFK cult: Arizona rally was everything you were hoping it would be

 Some links to Q-related items today…

At what point is it time to give up on the []

When Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard decided to get tough with squirrels

[Hubbard in England, 1959]

On Thursday we posted another story about Danny Masterson’s rape accusers — three women who are former members of the Church of Scientology and who say they’ve been going through intense harassment since they came forward to the LAPD in 2016 with their allegations about Danny, a prominent celebrity member of the []

OAN dumped: Hey, DirecTV, what’s your excuse for keeping Scientology TV?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Stick by Donald, doomers. The storm is still []

Neil Sarfati on the perils of telling mainstream media about Scientology’s abuses

 Neil Sarfati has a wild and colorful story to tell about being a member of the Sea Org on the Apollo with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and being a member of the ship’s jazz band, the Apollo []

Guns, hotel rooms, and sedition: The Jan 6 picture just got a lot more alarming

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Unhappy with the SCOTUS ruling upholding mandates for health care workers, Q patriots wonder when the med beds are []

Scientology tries (and fails) to rehabilitate L. Ron Hubbard’s involvement in South Africa

 It’s that time of year again, and so we’ve begun keeping an eye on Scientology’s YouTube channel in anticipation that some time between now and February 13, when Super Bowl LVI will be played in Los Angeles, the new ‘mystery sandwich’ ad will []