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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Q patriotism is morphing but still strong: ‘Millions are on this crazy train’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

More piecing together the days leading up to Jan []

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Leaked price list: What it costs to stay at Scientology’s ‘spiritual mecca’ in Florida

[The Fort Harrison Hotel]

Our former OT 8 Scientologist has sent us another trove of pristine materials documenting their trek up the Bridge to Total Freedom. Previously, we’ve shown you some things from the mid 1980s that were in amazing shape. Now, we’ve been given some things from a more contemporary []

No ‘Q’ paraphernalia at Trump rally in Ohio? Patriots spin it to favor QAnon, of course

 Some links to Q-related items today…

No Q gear at the rally? Trump was protecting patriots from the []

More minor Scientology celebrities making news, and not in a good way

[Eddie Deezen and Marissa Ribisi]

Is Eddie Deezen still a Scientologist? We have to assume he is, because he’s been involved for a very long time (since John Travolta got him interested in Dianetics while they were filming Grease in 1977), and he was most recently mentioned in a Scientology magazine as completing a level, OT []

Q patriots react to Derek Chauvin’s sentencing with dignity and tact

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Patriots react to Derek Chauvin’s sentencing with dignity and []

Scientology to US Supreme Court: Valerie Haney predicament is not a First Amendment case

 In May, Valerie Haney’s legal team (specifically constitutional scholar Marci Hamilton) filed a petition with the US Supreme Court, asking it to step in and prevent the Church of Scientology from forcing Valerie into its “religious arbitration.”

Scientology’s response was due yesterday, and attorneys Robert Mangels (RTC) and William Forman (CSI) got their filing submitted in []

John McAfee’s strange death, building collapse in Miami: Is this the QAnon storm?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

John McAfee’s strange death in Spain and a condo building collapses in Miami — is this the storm or []

Scientology 50 & 21 years ago today: The strange deaths of Susan Meister & Stacy Moxon

[The Apollo]

They are two of Scientology’s more notorious deaths, and both of which have been the source of speculation and controversy over the years. And both of them happen to fall on the same []

Ron ‘I am not Q’ Watkins enters a strange new phase of his post-unmasking life

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Patriots still dealing with Trump saying he didn’t win the 2020 election. How could that []

His son may rule moneyed Scientology, but Ron Miscavige needs help to pay for his own funeral

 In 2012, Ron Miscavige made a clever and daring escape with his wife Becky Bigelow from Scientology’s secretive “Int Base,” where the two of them had been living as “Sea Org” []