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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Scientology spying on Anonymous: Leaked from the files of a church private eye

[The black bag department: Russ Andrews]

Saturday we revealed the appearance of one of Scientology’s notorious “black bag department” operators, a private investigator named Russ []

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Patriots relieved Trump acquitted, and things are going to remain weird

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Patriots were relieved that the Senate did not have enough votes to convict the former president, of course, but they worry that he may still face a vote under the 14th Amendment that would prevent him from holding office []

Post-Super Bowl, Scientology is on fire and will soon clear the planet

 We want to thank our source who once again has given us access to Scientology’s social media streams so we can see what church members are telling each other about their wins and []

QAnon patriots: Hey, maybe Trump being convicted in this thing is part of the plan?

[What did they know and when did they know it?]

Some links to Q-related items today…

Wait, if Trump is convicted in the impeachment trial, could that actually be part of ‘the []

Let’s bring one of Scientology’s most notorious bag men out of the shadows

 The last two days we’ve remarked on Chrissie Carnell-Bixler’s remarkable letter to Congress, and how she is trying her best to explain what it is like to be a former Scientologist who is being harassed by an organization with a very well-earned reputation for retaliating against people who expose its secrets.

Simply put, Scientology is built []

While evidence mounts showing how bad the Capitol riot was, patriots hold firm

[Rachel Powell and the contents of her backpack]

Some links to Q-related items today…

More patriots dealing with their own families disowning []

Danny Masterson accusers signal they’ll go to higher court to fight ‘religious arbitration’

[Chrissie Carnell Bixler, at a 2019 protest]

Yesterday afternoon we told you that former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson testified before a Congressional subcommittee and brought up the lawsuit against actor Danny Masterson and the Church of Scientology that we’ve been watching so closely since it was filed in 2019. The lawsuit was brought by Masterson’s []

Scientology icon and double OT 8 Chick Corea dies at 79 of cancer

[Corea at the Scientology 1977 ‘OT Summit’]

Chick Corea’s Facebook account announced this afternoon that the legendary jazz artist died Tuesday of a “rare form of cancer which was only discovered []

Gretchen Carlson slams Danny Masterson and Scientology ‘arbitration’ to Congress

 Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson took her battle against forced arbitration and secrecy agreements that keep sexual harassment under wraps to a House Judiciary subcommittee today, and as an example of the way women are prevented from getting justice she brought up the case of Danny Masterson’s rape accusers, who have been forced into []

Patriots bolstered by Mike Lee’s tantrum and fantasies of Jan 6 being even more violent

 Some links to Q-related items []