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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[Charles Kupperman]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
There were hearings in two impeachment-related lawsuits today in the same DC courthouse, both likely to shape how the impeachment inquiry will play […]
Lloyd Evans takes another look at Jehovah’s Witnesses TV, which is always fun. Here’s his description of this new […]
[‘The Kominsky Method’: Michael Douglas, Chuck Lorre, and Alan Arkin]
One of the questions we heard from a lot of people after we posted a rundown Monday of the Scientology scenes in a remarkable episode of the Netflix series ‘The Kominsky Method’ was how the show had gotten the church’s lingo down so […]
[Alexander Vindman]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story… White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call]
And now this impeachment has its own Nixon missing tape minutes […]
[Hanan and Rizza Islam in court]
So, there’s some good news and some bad news for Hanan Islam, the Scientologist who is accused of running a sophisticated $3.8 million fraud scheme out of a Scientology Narconon clinic in Compton and is facing trial next […]
Complaining that he really didn’t have anything new to blog about, author and debunker Jason Colavito probably thought his latest note at his website was hardly worth the time it took him to write it […]
Ex-JW activists Mark O’Donnell and Lloyd Evans team up for the second part of what Lloyd says will be a trilogy of lengthy videos examining an ‘Elder’s Manual’ that has been leaked from the Jehovah’s Witnesses […]
[Time for another party on LRH Way in Los Angeles]
Just a week after throwing a party on L. Ron Hubbard way to celebrate another “season” of propaganda on its television channel, Scientology threw another shindig this past Saturday night so the locals could watch video of David Miscavige’s nearly three-hour presentation at the IAS event […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story in the New York Times: Democrats Move Toward Bringing Impeachment Inquiry Public]
The House announced it’s going to conduct a vote on the procedure for its ongoing impeachment inquiry, but gave no details about what they’re voting […]
One of the interesting parallels between Scientology and Jehovah’s Witnesses is their dedication to hierarchy, including the case of hierarchical knowledge. Some things are not meant to be shared by the elite with the great unwashed […]
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