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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He was a student and teacher at Scientology’s elite boarding schools: Now he’s dishing

 Scientology’s boarding school The Delphian in Oregon — where wealthy Scientologists send their kids for indoctrination in the L. Ron Hubbard way and also where the church recruits for the Sea Org — has been in the news here at the Bunker a couple of times []

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Q patriots have proof that clones are replacing famous people — they saw it on Westworld

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Sometimes Q patriots need to work out the details of what we’re up []

The country’s 6th largest school district is helping a Scientology front group reach kids

 Has it really been almost 16 years since Hurricane Wilma zipped across Florida after doing incredible damage in Mexico? We happened to be in the path of Mrs. Flintstone, and we never want to be stuck in such a nightmarish storm again. We were without power for a []

SPLC warns about a growing ultra-right anti-democratic coalition in the US

[Rod of Iron: The ultra Right is getting very weird]

Some links to Q-related items today…

Patriots consider Steve Bannon’s claim that Trump will return as president in []

Tom Cruise, looking puffy again between movie shoots, gets booed at SF game

 The San Francisco Giants put Tom Cruise on the Jumbotron last night during Game 2 of the division series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. This set off a storm on Twitter, with lots of jokes about how puffy Tom looked (again) and wondering if he was preparing to play recently deceased SNL comedian Norm MacDonald []

The satanic overlords are going to turn you into human batteries any day now, Q patriots!

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots never run out of ways that the elites are trying to turn us into something []

He was Scientology ‘I/C’ — ‘in charge’ — of Paulette Cooper’s harassment. And now he’s dead.

[Paul Pflueger and his target, Paulette Cooper]

When we were doing the reporting for our 2015 book The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, we did our best to find Scientologists who might finally come forward and talk about what they put Paulette through from 1969 to 1985 during []

Q patriots sound the alarm about shedding: You vaccinated Dumbocrats are the real problem

 Some links to Q-related items today…

You vaccinated Dumbocrats are the real []

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s cosmos: An ancient battlefield shot through with ‘psychs’

 Some of you know that your proprietor is a stargazer and telescope nerd. And besides our personal journeys through the night sky, we’ve also dabbled in some astronomy journalism. Working on a piece we wrote in 1997 about the author of an amazing guidebook to the heavens, Robert Burnham Jr., remains one of our most []

Q patriots are convinced every school shooting is a put-on by gun-grabbing Dumbocrats

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Q patriots never saw a school shooting they couldn’t label a fantasy made up by lying []