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Mike Rinder posts remarkable series of videos amid serious cancer treatment

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Mike Rinder has gone through more cancer treatments recently, and he appeared quite changed in a series of seven short videos he posted last night. Despite his condition, he said he had some things []

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Danny Masterson’s attorney is helping Priscilla Presley play hardball in court

[Priscilla Presley and Marty Singer]

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 for Priscilla Presley to respond to the bombshell allegation in an Orlando lawsuit by a former business partner that she has a previously unidentified grandkid with Elvis []

For Veterans Day: Why does Scientology lie about L. Ron Hubbard’s supposed war wounds?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Why does Scientology claim that founder L. Ron Hubbard was seriously wounded during WW2 when that was debunked decades ago? As historian Chris Owen explains, it isn’t just another of Hubbard’s many tall stories. []

Xenu is here with your 2024 Scientology holiday catalog!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of our readers is an ex-Scientologist who receives church mail even though they are a ‘declared’ enemy. And thank goodness, because our tipster received this gem this week: Is that Xenu, dressed up []

Scientology lessening the Disconnection madness? Our readers are skeptical

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday’s dispatch from one of our correspondents, suggesting that Scientology leader David Miscavige might be softening the church’s notorious ‘Disconnection’ policy, turned out to be pretty controversial with our ex-Scientologist readers, and they let []

Is Scientology having second thoughts about destroying families?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It’s only a single data point, but a report from one of our inside correspondents suggest something may be changing in Scientology regarding one of its most toxic practices. Reason for hope? Or a []

Leaked: A Scientology plan to ‘clear’ Hollywood

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One trait of Scientology members is their confidence that L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘tech’ really can take over the world if they can get it to enough people. In an entertaining example of that, an []

Priscilla Presley asks for more time to answer explosive new version of Florida lawsuit

[Brigitte Kruse and Priscilla Presley in happier times]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’re not the only ones bowled over by the new version of the Orlando lawsuit against Priscilla Presley. After seeing the new allegations — including the claim []

Scientology ruins everything — even a massive onion farm in England

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: UK readers sent us links to stories that popped up there about a court decision involving Scientology and an onion farmer. We asked our friend Apostate Alex if he had heard anything about it, []

Mike Rinder steps down from Aftermath Foundation board amid cancer battle

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday, the Aftermath Foundation said that Mike Rinder has stepped down from its board. We have been encouraged by updates from Christie Collbran about the terrific medical team they have assembled, and that’s why []