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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Academics who ignore defectors as ‘apostates’ will never see Scientology for what it is

 The Underground Bunker asked former Sea Org official Chris Shelton to dig into a new academic paperback about Scientology, which is the latest issue of a journal called Implicit Religion. We think you’ll find Chris’s take in this first piece, which he comes at admitting his own personal biases, fascinating.

In my limited experience with the []

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It’s been a rough year, but Q patriots ponder, ‘What has Q done for you?’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Answering the question, “What has Q done for []

New evidence that private eyes stalking Leah Remini and J-Lo were working for Scientology

[TV polygraph expert Dan Ribacoff and his son Lance]

TV polygraph expert Dan Ribacoff has denied that his private investigators were following Leah Remini on behalf of the Church of Scientology in December 2017 when she was in New York filming a movie with her friend, Jennifer []

Sidney Powell keeps plugging away, but Q patriots start to wonder, is she the Kracken?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Are Q patriots still buying what Sidney Powell is []

Another Scientology OT dies of Covid, this time near the Florida ‘spiritual mecca’

[In January, Sergio Rojo was the happy buyer of a Mirit Castro painting.]

We’ve learned about the death of another OT Scientologist to Covid, and we found out about it from a Scientologist who had also been battling the disease, a woman named Julia in Clearwater, Florida, which is home to Scientology’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag []

When a major Q supporter parachutes out of the madness, is it a sign others will follow?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The friendly []

Appeals court moves back hearing, and asks if Scientology arbitration is ‘neutral’

[Chrissie Bixler and the state supreme court that granted review of her suit against Danny Masterson]

There seems to have been a pretty interesting development in the Bixler v. Scientology lawsuit — the case that is getting an appeal thanks to the California Supreme []

New Q grift: Patriots asked for money to overthrow state governments

[Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman, a/k/a Tore, of the Tore Says program]

 Some links to Q-related items today…

After the debacle of the Arizona audit, Q patriots struggle with their []

Scientology’s personality test is a hit on TikTok: Can David Miscavige capitalize on it?

 Why didn’t Dave think of this earlier? It’s how things work now, and Scientology has finally stumbled on []

The ‘pandemic babies’ are here, and Q patriots are freaking out

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots debate the merits of “pandemic babies.” Future supermen, or []