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Scientology’s barge wants you aboard — as long as you’re not gay, on psych drugs, or in tax debt

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Bijou Phillips files to have daughter’s last name changed from ex Danny Masterson’s

[Danny Masterson and Bijou Phillips during his first trial, defense attorney Philip Cohen behind them.]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: You probably saw the news in all the major media that Bijou Phillips asked a court to have her daughter’s []

Newts be damned! Scientology covers field with paving despite ecological warning

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Former staffer Alex Barnes-Ross has some stunning new photos from Scientology’s UK headquarters in West Sussex, where the annual IAS gala will be held beginning this Friday. the church has covered an entire field []

TONIGHT: Jason Dohring and Scientology’s bible at … Fullerton Barnes & Noble?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In May, Scientology celebrated the 75th anniversary of the book that started it all, L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘Dianetics.’ Actor Jason Dohring is promoting the book’s relaunch with a personal appearance at a Barnes & []

More Scientology hype videos for the event Tom Cruise usually crashes

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One consequence of Scientology waiting to reveal the date of this year’s IAS gala (Oct 31) is that the church is now hurrying to get members amped up enough to make the trip to []

The Church of Letting Go: How Scientology sells the silence of self-erasure

[Tom Cruise with Nicole Kidman, left, and Mimi Rogers]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Leigh Silverton is a clinical psychologist and Underground Bunker reader who took special interest in Saturday’s bonus story about how Scientology broke up the first two []

Another ‘Ideal Mission’ in California: Is Scientology on a roll?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology has opened another new ‘Ideal Mission,’ this time in Sacramento, and less than a month after a similar celebration just down the freeway in San Jose. Scientology will hope this gives the impression []

Scientology mega-donor explains why you must attend the big thetan meetup of 2025

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: When Scientology reveals at the last minute the date of its big annual event Tom Cruise actually goes to, it has to scramble to get people to drop everything and attend! Helping out is []

Former Dream Exchanger on Scientology at the startup, and other problems

[Joe Cecala and Dwain Kyles of Dream Exchange]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Former Dream Exchange employee Jeff Ferrell went public this last week with more problems at the startup featured in a Wall Street Journal investigation. We talked to []

Scientology runs into even more obstacles as big tent party approaches

[Whoops! Alex finds even more in the files]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: With less than two weeks until the start of this year’s big IAS gala at Scientology’s UK headquarters in England, the church’s planning application that seeks to []