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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Throwing the book at the QAnon Shaman: Chansley looking at 4-plus years in prison

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Terpsechore Maras-Lindeman, a/k/a “Tore Says,” may have pushed the grift just a little too far this []

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Jim Dincalci, 1946-2021: Medical officer to Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard on the high seas

[Dincalci, in a 1997 Channel 4 documentary about L. Ron Hubbard]

Hana Whitfield let us know last night that yesterday afternoon, Jim Dincalci slipped away after a lengthy fight with cancer. He was []

The usual misinfo channels: Travis Scott ‘Astroworld’ tragedy was a mass Satanic ritual

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots []

Profs looking at tiny groups of American ‘indies’ miss Scientology’s big issues

 Chris Shelton continues his look at the state of ‘religious studies’ attitudes about Scientology by working through a new issue of the journal Implicit Religion. Go here for his first, second, and third []

Some tension bubbles up between the New Age and Born Again wings of Q’s online army

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Some tension bubbles up between the New Age and Born Again wings of Q’s online []

Scientology’s magic and mysticism, as told by L. Ron Hubbard’s blogging son Arthur

[Arthur Hubbard’s blood-art]

Eight years ago here at the Bunker, we asked historian Jon Atack to talk with us about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s occult years (1945-46) and the strange rituals he got up to with early rocket scientist Jack Parsons in []

Q patriots debate: If parents get kids vaccinated against Covid, is it Trump’s fault?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Dr. Shane Huntington is a physicist in Melbourne who raises money for children’s charities and promotes vaccination. His 14-year-old son developed a rare side effect to the Pfizer Covid vaccine but is now doing fine, and Huntington announced that he was also going to get his 9 year old vaccinated []

Spanish news website calls out Scientology volcano vultures at La Palma

 A few days ago Scientology put out its usual press releases about how it was at the scene of yet another disaster with its yellow-shirted “Volunteer Ministers,” this time on the island of La Palma in the Canaries where a volcano began erupting on September 19. []

Meet the dude who convinced hundreds to go to Dallas to see JFK Jr.

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Rudy puts out a sloppy tweet, two Q drops from 2017 are remembered, and the patriots are off to the []

Heads on pikes: L. Ron Hubbard’s lasting legacy of ruthlessness in Scientology

 In a new video, Jon Atack and Karen de la Carriere discuss one of Scientology’s most hallowed sacraments: The finding of scapegoats so founder L. Ron Hubbard or David Miscavige after him would have a “head on a pike” to answer for any []