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Scientology’s new ‘STAND’ front unleashes bot army on Twitter — and gets zapped

 Our readers tend to be very observant, and we were reminded of that again recently when a Bunker regular reached out to us with some things he’d noticed about Scientology’s reaction to the new season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the []

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Hip-hip-hooray! We have the newest Scientology propaganda about creating an ‘Ideal World’

 We want to thank our tipster who sent us images from the new issue of “International Scientology News,” one of the church’s slick publications intended to convince its members that it is not a failing organization in a full-on []

‘Source’ magazine offers a glimpse into what goes on at Scientology’s Florida ‘mecca’

 Thanks again to Rasha for finding us the latest copy of Source magazine, the official propaganda organ of Scientology’s worldwide “spiritual Mecca,” the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, []

Believe it or not, a second season of Reza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ is coming

[Reza Aslan and Rick Ross]

We’ve told you about cult expert Rick Ross many times in the past. We first wrote about Rick more than 20 years ago when we were living in Phoenix, and he still shows up here at the Bunker from time to time. []

San Diego on Saturday: Psych-busting and Scientology hip hop!

 Hey, San Diego, the Scientologists are coming []

On probation and his house of horrors shut down, Tennessee Scientologist talks up Mexico

[Marc Vallieres]

There’s been a lot of press coverage, much of it confused, about a collection of mental health facilities in Cannon County, Tennessee that was run by Scientologists and was housing people who were being held against their will. []

Scientology fires again at Clearwater aquarium and calls county commissioner ‘shameful’

[Monique Yingling is now angling for both Winter the Dolphin and Commissioner Janet Long]

After picking a fight with a dolphin, the Church of Scientology has called for a county board’s cooperation by calling that board []

Need a boost to your superpowers? Scientology has a (pricey) solution for that!

 Thanks to Rasha, we have the new Source magazine from Scientology’s Flag Land Base, and it has some fun items to help you expand your space and your []

David Miscavige: Scientology TV launches by June 21, to show ‘planet’s coolest religion’

 Last week, one of our tipsters found evidence that the Church of Scientology has convinced the country’s second-largest cable television system, Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable), to make room for SCNTV, a channel that will carry Scientology’s []

Dungeons & Dragons and Scientology collide: Can we get a saving throw on that engram?

 Larry Elmore has been called the best thing that ever happened to Dungeons & Dragons art (although personally, your proprietor is more of a Trampier man), and we wondered what Elmore’s legions of role-playing fans might think if they knew that for the past four years, he’s been helping out the Church of []