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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Simple training exercise, or the storm starts with choppers at the Capitol? Patriots debate!

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Seventeen miles? SEVENTEEN? The storm is here, []

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Ecclesiastical cardio: David Miscavige spotted jogging on the beach in Clearwater

[Illustration by Observer]

If Scientology leader David Miscavige hadn’t spent so many years making himself so scarce, this would hardly be worth mentioning. []

VIDEO: Danny Masterson on his chances after arraignment on rape charges: ‘I feel fantastic’

[Masterson, his attorney Tom Mesereau, and Danny’s mother Carol leave the building.]

Today’s court hearing was brief, but we learned a few things about Danny Masterson’s upcoming challenge facing rape charges that may put him in prison for 45 years to life if he’s []

Q goes back to 1860, and other antisemitic rewrites of history by ardent patriots

 Some links to Q-related items today…

It’s awfully fun when Q patriots dig into []

Reporting from Los Angeles: Danny Masterson’s civil and criminal hearings today

[Danny Masterson and his attorney Tom Mesereau]

UPDATE: Judge Eleanor Hunter arraigned Danny Masterson today and set a schedule that suggests an early November trial date. Next court hearing is August 9, when Masterson will argue a motion to dismiss the case on lack of evidence. Our updates from court below.

Once again we’re on the scene []

Q patriots ponder the implications of the vaccinated hordes giving blood

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Q patriots ponder the implications of the vaccinated hordes giving []

When going OT was the bomb: Testimonials about Scientology in its heyday

 We recently came into possession of a remarkable cache of Scientology materials from the mid 1980s, and the condition they are in is pretty stunning. Some of this stuff looks like it just came from the []

Was David Miscavige behind Tom Mesereau’s biggest blunder at Danny Masterson’s prelim?

[Mesereau, Miscavige, Masterson, and Podberesky]

With another set of hearings coming up for Danny Masterson in both his civil and criminal cases this Monday, we have been thinking about the dramatic four days we spent in Los Angeles at his last courtroom []

Trump thrashes Fauci over his emails, but Q patriots wince at his pro-vaccine rant

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Trump dunks on Fauci, but Q patriots are bewildered that he keeps promoting the vaccine they say is killing []

Scientology veterans fend off attack in vicious new Clone Wars offensive

[The perps: Janis Grady and Ken Urquhart]

The Underground Bunker is compelled to report witnessing a murder, committed by two of Scientology’s most storied former members, Janis Gillham Grady and Ken []