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Recruiting dentists for Scientology, and bringing L. Ron Hubbard’s shrine to life!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last time we learned a wealthy family funding Scientology’s Vatican in Florida was also owner of a renowned Haunted House complex. This time, the church sent notice that another donor ropes in dentists for […]

Scientology loses an ‘enforcer,’ but what work did Marion Pouw actually do?

[Sea Org member Marion Pouw, 1953-2025]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Janis Grady and Mark Fisher recently reported that longtime Sea Org member Marion Pouw had died. Daily Mail Australia followed with a good piece about her history in Scientology. […]

Scientology has your summer fun lined up: Three parties with Ron!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: You’re 76 trillion years old, and you have countless more lifetimes to come. Thetan, we know you’re out of ideas what to do these sweltering summers. When it’s this hot, it’s not easy getting […]

Nicole Kidman’s Scientology auditor: What Ana de Armas is in for with Tom Cruise

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The tabs are losing it now that Scientology icon Tom Cruise was spotted holding hands with actress Ana de Armas in Vermont. What is she in for? We figured the best way to answer […]

Scientology warns Clearwater that delay of Hubbard Hall project is a ‘spiritual burden’

[A Scientology rendering of how neat their new Hubbard Hall is going to be inside]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: You know Scientology is gearing up for a serious fight when it pulls out the language of righteous religious indignation. […]

This is going on your permanent record: Why Scientologists fear being written up

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: John Sweeney called Scientology ‘The Church of Fear.’ And former Scientologist Phil Jones has been detailing how fear rules life in the church. He told us about the fear of yawning, and the fear […]

Coming clean: ‘I stole trash for the Church of Scientology’s spy wing’

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Once again, Patty Moher takes us into her time as a Scientology spy, and explains the surprisingly complex ‘tech’ of stealing the trash of people the church wanted kept under watch! [What is this […]

When Scientology tried to convince the LA Times that Tom & Dave were just regular dudes

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We have a fun trip down memory lane today. We’ve found a letter that Mike Rinder wrote to the LA Times in 2005, when it was his job to convince the newspaper there was […]

Scientology denied permit after claiming temporary IAS tent is a permanent structure

[The giant tent, or marquee, for the IAS event in 2014]

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 has a surprising report: After he pointed out that Scientology did not apply for a permit for its massive tent that houses […]

Onward, Scientology soldier! John Alex Wood is finally going OT

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: There was a time when John Alex Wood was the main online attack dog for Scientology, fighting daily at places like Twitter against church critics. Long an Underground Bunker favorite, he’s now turned up […]

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