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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News from Texas reminds us of a legendary fight against Scientology’s goon squad

[Back in the day]

One of the reasons that Marty Rathbun’s bizarre about-face in 2016 was so startling and disappointing was that until that time, interviewing him was one of the absolute highlights of the work we had done here and at the Village []

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Aha! Proof that the election was stolen: Cheeto dust?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Didn’t Mike Flynn say he had a surprise for July 4? How much more bewilderment can the Q patriots []

Scientology’s cruise ship isn’t going anywhere, but the new hype video is here anyway!

 The new Freewinds hype video has arrived, and we knew you’d want to see it. It’s []

Ashli Babbitt, to Q patriots: Alive, dead, Trump supporter, Pence stooge? Who can tell anymore

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Ashli: Alive, dead, Trump supporter, Pence stooge? Who can tell []

Take Scientology’s quiz to see if you qualify for the Sea Org and its billion-year contract!

 Remember Jasper? We featured his Sea Org advertisement the other day, but we noticed later that it was a mailer from the New York org that encouraged Scientologists to fill out a questionnaire to test their interest in joining that most theta of Scientology initiatives, the Sea []

Trump goes full Q in rain-soaked Sarasota rally

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Can Q patriots trust Florida Governor Ron DeSantis? They aren’t so []

Jon Atack and Mike Rinder on Scientology’s wackiest book: ‘A History of Man’

 We’re very glad that Jon and Mike have taken on this awesome task, and you might also look at the fun we had when we read this most insane of Scientology textbooks with biologist PZ Myers in 2013. Now, here’s Jon’s introduction to today’s video, which is worth the price of admission all on its []

Remember the Alamo! Unless, that is, you bring up its unfortunate actual history

[The Alamo, monument to what, exactly?]

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q said it: Watch the []

Scientology ‘Hogwarts’ in Oregon has Covid outbreak: 43 students, 8 staff

[Illustration by Observer]

The Oregon Health Authority in May reported that Delphian School in Sheridan had one of the biggest school-based Covid outbreaks in the state: 43 students and 8 staff were []

Trump team launches new social media platform and patriots are not thrilled

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Patriots are wary of the new []