[Alex and Amir outside the Sunderland org]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On Saturday, former Scientology London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross told us about his budding friendship with Edinburgh staffer Amir Essalhi, and Amir’s journey out of Scientology. Now, they’ve had […]

[Prisoner Masterson and his ardent supporter, 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: The civil lawsuit against Danny Masterson and Scientology gets a big hearing date, Val Haney gets a new judge in her case, we have the trailer for […]

[Alex and Amir]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross tells the story of how he came to know Amir Essalhi, a Scientology staffer at the Edinburgh org, did a video with him, and then helped Amir leave the controlling, […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In the newest Epstein files, there was this odd footnote: Epstein was funding Paul Krassner in his final few years, and while sending entertaining emails to Epstein in return, the legendary satirist ended up […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We often say 1950 was a miracle year for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, followed by the worst year of his life. A researcher pointed out that between the success of 1950 and the […]