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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Trump signs spending bill into law while libturds weep on the Fourth

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Scientology grifters defy court and find themselves in a lot more trouble

[Pains in the neck: Peyroux, left, and Detelich]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One thing we have learned is that there are two words you never want to see one after the other: ‘Scientologist’ and ‘chiropractor.’ Now, two Scientology chiro []

White House on the 4th of July: Yesterday’s burgers today

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Independence Day 2025: Tell us about your fight for freedom from Scientology

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As usual, we mark Independence Day here at the Underground Bunker by asking readers to tell us about their own declarations of freedom from Scientology indoctrination. What led you to dissolve the political bands []

White House pulls out all the stops selling Trump’s spending bill to patriots

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The David Miscavige deposition, in all of its surprising (and infuriating) detail

[Bent Corydon and David Miscavige]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Although Scientology expends enormous effort to keep leader David Miscavige out of court, he did have to sit for depositions at least twice in 1990s lawsuits. We obtained a full []

What Buchenwald and Dachau missed out on: Merch

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Really understanding Scientology requires a descent into the very strange

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We asked former Scientology Sea Org member Chris Shelton what he’s been looking into recently, and wow, did he have a fascinating and really weird response. Even after all that Chris has written and []

For Q patriots, the smell of libturd panic is sweet

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UK council denies protest ban, rebukes Scientology for ‘dead agent’ dossiers

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As expected a local council voted yesterday to deny #Scientology a protest ban outside its UK headquarters. But what made it an even worse debacle for the church was that a common Scientology tactic []