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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 []

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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 []

Scientology has found its secret weapon to take over the planet. He’s 23.

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Even if Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s vision of taking over the planet is even less likely now than when he was alive, people signing billion-year contracts today dedicate themselves just as ardently as []

Tom Cruise single again? Scientology is ready to cash in either way!

 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 saying Tom Cruise’s romance with fellow actor Ana de Armas is already kaput. We don’t know if that’s true, but once again Scientology has tapped into Tom’s fame to help it []

Scientology’s ham hock Grant Gardone slapped down by UK ad council

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve been writing about Scientology’s professional ham hock Grant Cardone since 2011, and we are always surprised that his various antics don’t run him into more regulatory snags. So it’s refreshing to see that []

Attorney for Masterson victims again admits AI error, but rejects Scientology remedy

[Boies Schiller partner John Kucera]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology blasted Boies Schiller partner John Kucera for AI errors in the lawsuit against Danny Masterson & the Church. Kucera has now replied, asking the court to separate whatever price []

IAS set for Halloween (boo!), but was once held on Scientology’s spooky cruise ship!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Now that the IAS gala is set for Halloween at Scientology’s UK headquarters, we have a reminder that not only has this event been held at different times, but also outside of Great Britain. []

More Scientology allegations about Dream Exchange, now from a former executive

[Former Dream Exchange executive Jeffery Ferrell, left]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Wall Street Journal investigation of startup Dream Exchange was a hard-hitting look at a business that wants to become a stock exchange catering to Black-owned businesses. Now, []