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Scientology grooming kids: Excitement as the new books actually begin to arrive

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The new Scientology books aimed at grooming kids as young as 7 for a life of L. Ron Hubbard thinking have actually started to arrive now, and we know this because of a photo []

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Scientology restores the villa where Ron dreamed up Xenu? Jon Atack has thoughts.

 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 surprises of the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday was Scientology leader David Miscavige announcing another shrine: The villa in Las Palmas where Ron dreamed up the Xenu story! That seemed a bit []

Scientology’s big donors wining and dining Cesar Millan? What’s up with that?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Ian Rafalko recently sent us images showing some of Scientology’s biggest donors hanging out with Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer. Ian wondered if they were trying to get in with the longtime TV star. []

Watch Elena Cardone teach Scientology to Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology’s good friend US Attorney General Pam Bondi got the heave-ho yesterday, but the church has other ways to influence the White House and its supporters. Still, even we were a bit stunned to []

Claire Headley and Chris Shelton on Scientology’s creepy new focus on kids

[John Travolta and Tom Cruise applauded David Miscavige’s new initiative on March 14]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: At the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event on March 14, Tom Cruise and John Travolta applauded Scientology leader David Miscavige, who unveiled []

Scientology wants its new children’s books in major bookshop chain

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Thank you to Alex Barnes-Ross for spotting this call to action by Scientology. It’s an appeal for Scientologists to contribute to an effort that will attempt to convince a major chain to carry the []

Scientology wants even more days of arbitration from Valerie Haney, new judge says OK

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology has already put Valerie Haney through a ludicrous 15 days of a kangaroo court it calls ‘religious arbitration.’ The church now says it wants even more days, and the new judge in the []

Tom Cruise and John Travolta showed up for Scientology’s leader in Florida

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The photos are in! Scientology posted its slide show from this year’s L. Ron Hubbard birthday, and we’re always curious to see which celebrities made the scene. And what a bumper crop showed up []

Arbitration starts in Scientology labor-trafficking case, plaintiffs seek court relief

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The labor trafficking lawsuit filed by three Australian residents has been quiet after it was forced into Scientology’s ‘religious arbitration.’ But a new document reveals that the arbitration has begun and plaintiffs want relief []

Australian cults inquiry notified of Scientology’s sneaky use of UK-Aussie connection

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: An inquiry about cults is going on in Australia, including testimony about Scientology. But Alex Barnes-Ross realized that the inquiry had not heard about Scientology’s sneaky way it uses an Australian address to get []