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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JD Vance booed in Milan as Winter Olympics start

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How I helped Scientology’s TikTok star to leave

[Alex and Amir]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross tells the story of how he came to know Amir Essalhi, a Scientology staffer at the Edinburgh org, did a video with him, and then helped Amir leave the controlling, []

Q patriots on mass deportations: ‘Let ICE cook’

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Leaked stats: Just how slow is a Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ these days?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: After the hoopla of a Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ grand opening, these expensive cathedrals are said to generate little interest from the public. Now, we have leaked stats backing up that assertion, and they are []

Trump will abide by midterms result ‘if they’re honest’ — wink, wink

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New batch of Epstein files unmasks a 1970s Scientology spy — and he talked to us!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In the newest Epstein files, there was this odd footnote: Epstein was funding Paul Krassner in his final few years, and while sending entertaining emails to Epstein in return, the legendary satirist ended up []

Trump: The Epstein files exonerate me. QAnon: The Epstein files prove PizzaGate

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The OT 8 life: Grant Cardone on Scientology, Money, and Xenu

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We want to thank the correspondent who took one for the team and actually watched Grant Cardone’s new interview on Vlad TV, focusing on the segment when he was asked about being one of []

And now, an ode to our troubled times

On the occasion of Groundhog Day yesterday (and Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow, ensuring six more weeks of winter), our old friend and former journalistic colleague Jeremy Voas penned some thoughts we thought you’d enjoy.

 ODE TO JANUARY 2026

OR

PERVERSE FREE VERSE OF ADVERSITY

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75 years ago today: A murder, a lawsuit, and the first death of Dianetics

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We often say 1950 was a miracle year for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, followed by the worst year of his life. A researcher pointed out that between the success of 1950 and the []