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Scientology rings in 2026 with Tom Cruise in Los Angeles: The photos!

[David Miscavige celebrates another year as Scientology leader]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As 2026 began at midnight on the East Coast, Scientology once again posted photos from its New Year’s celebration, which was actually taped a couple of weeks []

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Scientology’s 2025: Another year is in the books at the Underground Bunker!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We started our year-end review ten days ago by noting how Scientology’s relationship with the White House is one of the big stories we’ve been covering this year. It made number 6 on our []

Scientology litigation 2025: A look at the cases grinding through the courts this year

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We were fortunate again this year to have the expertise of an appellate attorney with several big Scientology cases we’re watching. We asked him for his thoughts about the shape of litigation this year. []

Scientology’s video to get you hyped to ring in 2026 at your local org!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology does its annual time-travel trick for New Year’s Eve. Church leader David Miscavige recorded the party in LA in the middle of December, and it will be shown at all of Scientology’s ‘orgs’ []

How desperate is Scientology to get your wedding to its cruise ship?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology bought a cruise ship so it could fleece victims as they sought the ultimate auditing level on the ‘Bridge to Total Freedom,’ known as OT 8. But it’s not enough to pay the []

The most honest Scientology recruiting video we’ve seen in a long time

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Crave a minimum-wage job in an expensive modern city? Do you look forward to telling people you can read their thoughts with a quack electronic device? If this sounds attractive, you might dig the []

Scientology’s prison for Shelly Miscavige isn’t very secure after all, video suggests

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday was our annual Christmas tribute to Shelly Miscavige, and now we have a Scientology item related to it. Although we tend not to report much about the goings on at YouTube, we appreciated []

Does Shelly Miscavige know it’s Christmas 2025?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Six years ago we decided Christmas Day would be a good time to review what we knew about Shelly Miscavige, wife to Scientology leader David Miscavige, who vanished in 2005. We wondered if Shelly, []

Scientology smears Alex Barnes-Ross daily, and what else is there to do but sing about it?

 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 has a treat for us on Christmas Eve — another song! And this time about the smears Scientology has been aiming at Alex Barnes-Ross, who had another monster year. Check out the []

Scientology’s next headache at UK headquarters: The water main right under its plans

[Alex Barnes-Ross is keeping an eye on Dave’s troubles]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As if the prospect of slaughtering protected newts wasn’t bad enough, Scientology has another headache that may hold up its expansion plans for its UK headquarters: []