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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Only took a week for the Puerto Rico Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ to empty out? Yikes!

 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, the grand opening of a new Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ — this time in Puerto Rico — resulted in church leader David Miscavige presiding over everything with his usual aplomb. But only a []

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Trump: Iran being ‘beat to HELL’ in what Johnson says is not a war

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It’s good to be a Duggan: Scientology celebrates youngest ‘Platinum Meritorious’ megadonor

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology may struggle to find new members, but leader David Miscavige continues to get huge donations out of his rich whales. The new Impact magazine has a spotlight on one young megadonor. At 27, []

Trump gets tetchy over question about Putin helping Iran target US military

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They’re $500,000 donors to the IAS — but they also happen to be Scientology spies!

[Hooray, more money for Dave!]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of the reasons we keep an eye on the trophies Scientology leader David Miscavige hands out to his wealthy supporters is the reaction we get from readers who tell []

Trump knows some of you will die in his Iran misadventure, and he’s OK with it

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‘Healing’ church finds new home in Los Angeles after years of public mutilations

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Caroline McKuen never thought she’d reach out to a site like ours, but she wasn’t sure where else to turn. To help us understand, she sent a shaky video of a church service where []

Johnson: We’re bombing Iranians for their ‘misguided religion’

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The millionaires keeping Scientology afloat in 2026!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We keep an eye on the wealthy donors Scientology fetes each autumn in England. But leader David Miscavige held an additional ‘Patrons Ball’ in LA for the New Year’s Event, and a new issue []

We were always at war with Oceania, er, Iran

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