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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Another records request from Scientology shows how Mark Bunker drives them nuts

[Mark Bunker is amused, Glen]

We know you find these Glen Stilo records requests with the city of Clearwater as entertaining as we do, so we thought we’d share the latest []

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Genius Q patriots decide that the ship stuck in the Suez canal is part of the cabal

 Some links to Q-related items today…

As an HBO series piles on with others that have suggested Q is actually a former pig farmer in the Philippines and his asocial son, Q patriots vow never to give []

Danny Masterson holds on to his passport as judge decides he’s no flight risk

[Masterson and Mesereau at a Sept 18 appearance]

[UPDATE: Judge Charlaine Olmedo denied the DA’s request to have Danny Masterson turn in his passport, saying that his $3.3 million bond is enough to ensure the he’ll show up in court. Next hearing set for April 20.]

Danny Masterson’s social media posts suggest that he’s back from Oregon []

Man arrested for damaging Scientology cameras with laser while on ‘Cult City’ tour

[Scientology’s Flag Building and Bob Harris]

The Clearwater Police department arrested a local man yesterday for damaging several of Scientology’s surveillance cams with a laser while he was on a “Cult City Tours” walking tour on February []

Predictably, Q patriots decry the Boulder shooting as staged ‘false flag’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Save the non-existent children in non-existent tunnels under the White House, but the Boulder shooting is all fake and set up by the Dems to take our guns. These are your friends and neighbors, []

Danny Masterson accusers take Scientology ‘arbitration’ to California Supreme Court

 We know that petitioning for a writ of mandate with an appeals court is a longshot. But we thought Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and the others suing Danny Masterson and the Church of Scientology had a pretty decent []

Q patriots seem unfazed by HBO’s first two episodes of ‘Into the Storm’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Reactions to the new HBO documentary are starting to go through the Q []

Scientology on the ground: Despite church PR, things look very grim as the pandemic lingers

 Someone mentioned that they’d seen a sign at the Scientology Cambridge Ideal Org that said they were closed. We thought we’d take a look. And since we were in the neighborhood there were a few other Orgs we wanted to []

With Q quiet, others maneuver to take over lunatic (and lucrative) mantle

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Maybe those kids at the border are actually the ones the military is saving with Trump’s help? []

ABCMouse honcho gives Scientology another $10 million — for construction of ‘LRH Hall’

Scientology’s long planned L. Ron Hubbard Hall, an auditorium to join its ‘Flag Land Base’ in Clearwater, Florida, is still soaking up million-dollar donations from the church’s wealthy donors, and we get to see who they are in a new church []