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’s center specializing in auditing your infant is back open in Florida!

 Great news, everyone. Now that Florida has begun reopening businesses, you can now take your infant or toddler down to the Mace-Kingsley center for some Scientology []

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Six months out, mail-in ballots for this election are the line in the sand for Trump

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: ‘DOA’: That’s what Trump says about House Democrats’ coronavirus relief package]

Apparently mail-in ballots are the line in the sand for []

A look inside a Scientology org as it prepares to reopen for the public

 We have another dispatch from the folks at the Dublin org, who are just bursting to re-open the facility and welcome everyone []

Scientology trying to sell Irish reporters on the idea that interest is booming there

 Hey, it’s nice to hear from Louis Theroux, who connected us with an Irish journalist this week. The Irish reporter had been sent a sparkly press release from Scientology in regards to the Dianetics anniversary, and he had []

Live-blogging Supreme Court arguments over Trump’s tax returns

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Today the Supreme Court is livestreaming oral arguments for three cases relating to the production of Trump’s financial documents including his tax []

Scientology’s $20 million hole in the ground: The secret vault to nowhere

 Over the years we’ve told you a lot of things about Scientology’s bizarre set of underground vaults, where it stores L. Ron Hubbard’s words and ideas for future generations in case of civilization []

60 Minutes documents the worst example of science politicization we can recall

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

This aired on CBS’ 60 Minutes last night, and is one the most directly detrimental examples of science politicization I can recall reading about. []

Scientology ekes out small victories as the world goes to coronavirus hell

 Last September, we made a point about how Scientology expends enormous effort (and prodigious sums) in order to score a small press mention or to win an award you’ve never heard of. []

On Mother’s Day, the moms who suffer and defy Scientology’s cruel ‘disconnection’ policy

 There may be no other holiday which is more anathema to Scientology than Mother’s []

Dianetics at 70: Scientology’s bible, endorsing child molestation since May 9, 1950

 Seventy years ago today, L. Ron Hubbard published the book that changed his life and sparked a movement, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental []