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Swimming against Scientology’s rip current: Lessons learned the hard way

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Val Ross has enlightened us with tales of her career as a Scientology spy and victim of domestic violence. We’re so glad she has another memory to share with us about her days in […]

Scientology’s beach party goes into a third day in Clearwater

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Scientology party at Sand Key Park in Clearwater that started on Saturday continued into its third day yesterday, and we’ve been checking with experts about what it could be all about. ALSO: Doctors […]

Scientology’s greatest ever justification for its expensive TV channel is here

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: If you’ve ever tried to view Scientology TV, you know it’s unwatchable propaganda. But David Miscavige has to prove it’s been worth the millions to produce all that wretched content. So now, the best […]

Ready for OT superpowers, pilgrim? Scientology is waiting for you to come aboard!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A reader has sent us a complete new marketing pitch designed to get Scientology members out to the ship Freewinds so they can gain superhuman OT abilities in an adventurous setting. Avast there, pilgrim! […]

Some recent cases remind us that Scientology tactics are all around us

[It’s a world of grift and we just live in it]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Readers often send us stories that only tangentially relate to Scientology or evoke Scientology’s well-known tactics. We wonder: Is it that Scientology’s thuggish ways […]

Scientology finally finds the right formula in stunning new video

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Sure, Scientology has struggled to recruit staff with so much bad press and all. But leader David Miscavige’s building projects need funding, and staffs need filling out! The enthusiastic team at Orlando has put […]

When Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard offered Polaroid his genius

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology’s encyclopedia about its founder includes a volume about what a master photographer L. Ron Hubbard was. And it reprints a 1964 letter Hubbard wrote to Edwin Land to inform him about a flaw […]

Rebecca Minkoff says ‘No comment’ to Scientology questions in RHONY trailer

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Bravo viewers got a look at the upcoming ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ season with a new trailer, and it confirms that handbag designer Rebecca Minkoff will be a ‘friend’ to the cast. […]

Scientology operatives and attorneys trying to end a medical industry

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Although our @thedailybeast piece about Scientology’s litigation war on the psychiatric profession was lengthy, there was even more we couldn’t fit in. And we figured Bunker readers would be interested, because it involves the […]

LA Mayor Karen Bass boosts Mr. Scientology, Tom Cruise, on world’s biggest stage

[The chummy scene in Paris, with Simone Biles holding the Olympic flag]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: When we heard that Tom Cruise would be rappelling into the Stade de France to take the Olympic flag, we raised a question: […]

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