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 keeps sending us good stuff from last weekend’s IAS gala, which took place at Scientology’s UK headquarters. On Saturday was the Patrons Ball, when only donors of at least $50,000 can get […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is getting some outside help with a ‘friend of the court’ letter to an appeals court weighing what to do about the AI blunder we’ve been telling you about in the lawsuit that […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Since October ’23, Valerie Haney has endured days and days of Scientology’s dubious ‘religious arbitration,’ with no end in sight. Yesterday her attorneys tried to convince Judge Gail Killefer to put some constraints on […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: While we wait to see which of Scientology’s big donors were bestowed new trophies this past Saturday at the IAS Patrons Ball, it turns out the church put out a new Impact magazine recently […]

[Isabella Cruise, Tom’s daughter, left, with other Scientology ‘patrons’]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: For the first time we have photo evidence of Isabella Cruise attending a Scientology IAS event, held annually at the church’s UK headquarters to celebrate its […]