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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Scientology holds its ‘Writers of the Future’ awards out of season, but same lavish display

 Our readers know that as far back as our Village Voice days, we’ve been trying to warn the science fiction/fantasy world that “Writers & Illustrators of the Future” is a lavish and expensive contest because Scientology uses it to burnish the reputation of L. Ron Hubbard and, by extension, the church []

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Our current mess: What happens when people take the Bible to be a movie they’re living in

 Some links to Q-related items today…

After months of none of their fantasies coming true, Q patriots stop and take []

What’s happening right now in Scientology’s independent ‘Freezone’

 Yesterday, Chris Shelton gave us another interesting look at what “new religious movement” academics are up to in regards to Scientology. And this time, he looked at a professor who, according to his own bio, has made a bit of a name for himself examining the []

Congressional enablers met dozens of times with Jan 6 rioters: Rolling Stone

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Obama showed up for some Virginia campaigning, and Q patriots unloaded on []

Religion professor complains that no one wants to hear the good news about Scientology

 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 and second []

Woman says she’s been undercover MAGA since Nov ’20, will be spilling tea

[She’s been recording ‘racist, antisemitic’ MAGAs for more than a year (see thread below)]

Some links to Q-related items today…

Child dies at 2 months, Q patriots heap abuse on mom for having been []

Scientology wanted to make him their next superstar: The strange death of Kuba Ka

 Over at the Daily Beast today we have a bizarre story that took us some while to put together: The macabre details in the death of Jakub Stepniak, the entertainer we knew as “Kuba Ka” when we wrote about him for the first time in []

Are Q patriots giving up on Trump? ‘Wake up,’ says one young woman

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots react to video of a woman saying that Trump is not coming back and “it’s up to []

Jon Atack: Is Scientology really a ‘church’?

 Perhaps no one understands the early history of Scientology like Jon Atack, author of one of the most famous books on the subject, 1990’s ‘A Piece of Blue Sky,’ which was more recently expanded and []

Q patriots wanted military control didn’t they? But now they’re worried it’s coming?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Wasn’t the military taking over supposed to be a good thing? Now it’s a bad []