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Moss wins Emmy for portraying totalitarian cult victim and doesn’t care what you think about it

As expected, actress Elisabeth Moss took home the Emmy award last night for her role in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, besting her fellow nominees for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Claire Foy (The Crown), Keri Russell (The Americans), Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder), Robin Wright (House of Cards), and Evan Rachel […]

Scientology leader David Miscavige has empty buildings all over the world — here’s a rundown

Rod Keller keeps an eye on Scientology’s “Ideal Org” program for us, and he reminds us today of just how much empty real estate the church has lined up so David Miscavige can hold grand openings for years to […]

Disconnected at birth — another infuriating Scientology saga

[Brian Sheen and his daughter Spring]

We’ve written several stories about Brian Sheen, a Florida man who left Scientology many years ago, but who never had a problem with his daughter, Spring, continuing in the organization. But after Spring married into a wealthy Scientology donor family in 2014, she got the order from the church to […]

Scientology’s newest infiltration — Rebecca Minkoff and Meghan Fialkoff at Nasdaq!

You have to hand it to Scientology. No matter how much L. Ron Hubbard’s creation is battered and bruised by bad press, shrinking numbers, and ridicule on social media, Scientology never, ever gives […]

Is Ohio’s newest legislator a Scientologist? ‘I had him on the cans,’ says our man in Cincy

[George Lang, talking the Scieno talk]

Yesterday, a pretty minor political story — the appointment of a Republican township trustee to an open seat in the state House of of Representatives — blew up into something more, thanks to the Church of Scientology and a notorious alt-right […]

Ford Greene responds to Marty Rathbun, and brings up a previous Scientology secret deal

[Ford Greene]

We heard this week from Ford Greene, the California lawyer who was involved in important litigation against the Church of Scientology and who also recently appeared on a special 2-hour episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. He’s also the former two-time mayor of San Anselmo, […]

Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: Two witnesses detail David Miscavige’s ruthless Scientology takeover

[John Brousseau]

If L. Ron Hubbard is responsible for the millions of words that spell out every aspect of Scientology, what, exactly, qualified David Miscavige to take over as church leader after Hubbard died in […]

HURRICANE LEAH: ‘The defenses are crumbling. Scientology in Los Angeles is dying.’

We’re still marveling at the juxtaposition — that the same weekend Leah Remini took home an Emmy award for her A&E series Scientology and the Aftermath, a major hurricane was barreling down on the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida. […]

Ideal and Ideal-er: England org coming soon will be Scientology to the max

Scientology leader David Miscavige continues to push for new Ideal Org openings around the world, and tells his followers that the new orgs will bring in lots of new public to Scientology. That hasn’t happened, and Miscavige has blamed it on a number of reasons — most recently, that the orgs aren’t staffed up enough. […]

Supporting Leah Remini and her show — what’s the risk for viewers who expose Scientology?

There’s a law firm in Manhattan that struggled this week to cope after it came under a bizarre attack. […]

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