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Oops! Scientology spills a secret as it prepares to co-opt another holiday

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 annual effort to turn Christmas into a recruiting event is pretty well known, but it also does what it can with Easter, holding an annual egg hunt in Florida to lure in new []

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Eyewitness reports from celebrations of Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday #Scientology members were asked to come down to their local ‘orgs’ to watch video of the L. Ron Hubbard birthday event filmed the week before in Florida. We have a couple of eyewitness []

When my friend Wings Hauser stunned Scientology about its high prices

[Wings Hauser, 1980s]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Geoff Levin was close with actor Wings Hauser for more than 50 years, and they met in Scientology. With news of Hauser’s death at 77, Geoff shares details of their friendship in []

San Francisco rules the Scientology universe — for this week, at least

[The Golden Gate gang!]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Scientology has not yet sent out a press release about its annual birthday bash for founder L. Ron Hubbard, but already one secret from it has []

Why Scientology’s fight over ‘Snow White’ files is coming up in Trump civil lawsuit

[Trump pal Dan Scavino is taking inspiration from Scientology’s legal tactics]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Civil suits are still spinning out from the Jan 6 insurrection, and an odd result is that the White []

Missing Clearwater diver has Scientology community (and exes too) distraught

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Readers have been messaging us in regards to a story about a missing sportfishing diver who didn’t surface last Thursday about 65 miles off the coast of Naples, Florida. []

Clearwater caves to Scientology again: Mark Bunker on last night’s vote

[Mark Bunker on Dave getting his way again]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: The Clearwater city council voted last night to vacate Garden Ave, the first step in selling the street to Scientology for $1.3 []

Mark Bunker’s council replacement explains his vote for Scientology

[David Miscavige and Clearwater: ‘I want it all’]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Tonight, Clearwater’s council will vote to give David Miscavige and Scientology some property so the church can use it as part of []

Scientology leader met with Clearwater council members and now wants a vote

[David Miscavige wants the city to knuckle under]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Mark Bunker tells us that Scientology leader David Miscavige secretly met with individual Clearwater city council members and now expects them to []

Site report: Scientology not looking very ‘Ideal’ these days

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Scientology spent more than $15 million for a huge office building as it plans to go ‘Ideal’ on Long Island. It’s a sign that the church is booming there, []