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VIDEO: You know what your problem is? You’re not Scientology trained!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology puts out the dopest videos about how great it is to be a Scientologist, and we can only help them spread the word. ALSO: The IAS date is out, and we can hardly []

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Scientology leader can sit out while Freewinds trafficking case goes to arbitration

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The federal judge who forced the Valeska Paris labor trafficking lawsuit into Scientology’s ‘religious arbitration’ has ruled that church leader David Miscavige can rest easy while the arbitration is actually going on. ALSO: Is []

Michele Fiore guilty on all counts, and Scientology link proven at trial

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: You may have seen the news yesterday, that former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore was found guilty on federal charges. But her trial also featured documentary evidence of something we’ve been saying a []

Alex reports: Scientology is loading up pols with propaganda to ban protests

 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 told us last week that Scientology is applying for a special legal exception that would ban protests outside its UK headquarters for three years. He attended the first public hearing on the []

Scientology donor Rebecca Minkoff gets star turn as RHONY 15 begins

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Handbag designer and major Scientology donor Rebecca Minkoff admitted she joined the catfighting on RHONY’s 15th season because her business has been in the toilet since the pandemic hit. And so far she’s getting []

The night Scientology’s celebrities shined, and he reached his limit

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: This week, Brendan Tighe marked 13 years since he left Scientology and his job providing armed security for David Miscavige and Tom Cruise. Here is his remarkable account of what happened the night he []

Field report: Scientology sticks by the same old methods (because they work)

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As much as Scientology is struggling and it suffers from horrible press and a terrible public image, its old-school methods still manage to bring in the curious. Why are we so easy to tantalize []

Scientology must be thriving in the biggest city in the world, right?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology leader David Miscavige promises followers that ‘Ideal Orgs’ create booms of interest. Instead, when we check in with these places, they seem mostly empty. If there’s one place where an Ideal Org should []

The Scientology hype video you have been waiting for: Saint Hill en fuego!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A new hype video from Scientology not only pumps you up to go “OT,” but takes you into the inner sanctum at Saint Hill Manor, including the famous Monkey Room. Strap in, space cadet! []

Historic flooding from Hurricane Helene hits Scientology-heavy Tampa Bay

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Although the eye of Hurricane Helene passed west of the Tampa Bay area its storm surge produced historic flooding in Tampa and Clearwater, where one of the largest concentrations of Scientology members in the []