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.)
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In 2016 we got our first aerial views of one of Scientology’s secret vault sites, the Lady Washington Mine near Tuolumne, California. Now, a new anonymous drone pilot is providing us with great views of Scientology’s small mountain compound, where the church stores archives of L. Ron Hubbard’s work to survive future civilization […]
[Mark Bunker and Ryan Prescott]
Clearwater is holding an election on March 17 for mayor and two city council seats. Scientology is worried that critic Mark Bunker might win seat 2 on the council and is supporting his opponent Eliseo Santana Jr., an army veteran and retired worker for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Santana is […]
[The unstable orbit of Earth’s temporary satellite]
On February 25, Kacper Wierzchos of the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona tweeted that since February 15 his team had been observing a small object, now catalogued as 2020 CD3, to ascertain whether it was a natural satellite of the Earth. There is a lot of […]
With less than two weeks to go before a series of crucial hearings are scheduled that will include serious challenges to their lawsuit, four women suing the Church of Scientology, its leader David Miscavige, and Scientologist actor Danny Masterson have filed an updated complaint which includes new allegations of stalking, invasion of privacy, and even […]
[Trump going viral]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
So a Health and Human Services (the CDC’s parent agency) official raised a concern about that agency’s handling of the return of Americans returning from Wuhan China, specifically that those officials — all non-medical professionals — were ordered to to […]
Hey, gang, we thought we’d start out a new feature here today, Ask a Scientologist. […]
On Saturday, Scientology held another grand opening of a new “Ideal Org,” this time in Ventura, California, and angered local officials by releasing hundreds of helium balloons into the […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
The Trump Campaign today sued the New York Times in New York state court for defamation over an opinion piece, which is kind of all you need to know if you already know that where the plaintiff is a political figure, defamation […]
[Is seven victims enough for DA Jackie Lacey (left), or will it take George Gascón (right) unseating her?]
The Underground Bunker has learned that the Los Angeles Police Department has had formal contact with a seventh woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Scientologist actor Danny […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
I’ve avoided writing about the coronavirus epidemic because I don’t feel particularly qualified to say smart things about it, but given that ignorance didn’t stop Donald Trump from tweeting about the Ebola virus 49 times in Oct-Nov 2014, mostly about how Obama […]
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