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 bragged on new Africa drug rehab, now it’s accused of stiffing workers

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: At Scientology’s New Year’s event in LA, church leader David Miscavige boasted about a new Narconon drug rehab in South Africa, where he probably figured there would be lax oversight. But now a local []

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IT’S SPRINGTIME FOR TWITTLER

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Briefing not meant for the public: LA fires are ‘historic opportunity’ for Scientology

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: LA’s fires are located where Scientology has its biggest concentration of members, so it’s not surprising the ‘Volunteer Ministers’ have been called out to take advantage of it. But rarely have we had such []

Trump’s second inauguration arrives: The grift that keeps on giving

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Scientology’s new ad push is really getting on people’s nerves

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Central to Scientology’s announced new media campaign are three TV ads that church leader David Miscavige revealed to the audience at the October IAS gala. But it’s a series of the campaign’s new billboards []

TikTok goes down in US, setting up savior role for Trump tomorrow

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Becky Bigelow, 1962-2025, escaped from Scientology with Ron Miscavige

[Becky, in white, enjoying post-Scientology life in 2016 on a cruise with Ron and others, including Janis Gillham Grady, Steve Hall, Dan Koon, and Jefferson Hawkins]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology’s smears of Ron Miscavige and Becky Bigelow remain []

Trump messed with Jimmy’s flag and now he has to hold his inauguration inside

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Anonymous fought ‘disconnection’ — but Scientology never stops destroying families

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On Tuesday, the 17th anniversary of Anonymous declaring war on the Church of Scientology will arrive, and we wanted to mark the occasion with a story that recently came up thanks to Alex Barnes-Ross, []

Q patriots preparing to ‘shift gears’ on Monday as the storm finally arrives

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