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What the first trailer for Leah Remini’s Scientology series tells us about her show

 Last night, the A&E network released a trailer for Leah Remini’s upcoming series about Scientology, and wow, does it look great. []

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Hillary Clinton has considered David Miscavige’s appeals lawyer for the US Supreme Court

 Over the last couple of weeks, several news organizations have written about a John Podesta email published by Wikileaks which suggests that even before US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on February 13, the Hillary Clinton campaign had considered a replacement for him, an African-American attorney named Wallace Jefferson who is a []

Leah Remini reveals that she’s been stalked during production of her new TV series

 Leah Remini’s A&E television series about the Church of Scientology premieres on November 29, but it’s been filming for months. And in that time, Leah and her production crew have been subject to the usual reaction from the church itself including threatening letters, surveillance, and in Denver an encounter that was especially []

Scientology will go after your kids with its quack ideas on drugs — even at a Christian school

Rod Keller keeps an eye on social media for us, and this week he dives into another Scentology infiltration that was hiding in plain []

Amassing the real history of Scientology has been a long and dramatic relay race

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend []

Talking with Tiponi Grey, who quit her Scientology job and announced it on YouTube

 It was a video that lasted only 14 seconds. Long enough for a woman named Tiponi Grey to make a short statement behind a pair of large sunglasses…

“Hello, world. I am Tiponi Grey Magi. And I am no longer employed with the Church of Scientology. Thank you and have a wonderful []

Surprised Tom Cruise called Scientology a ‘beautiful religion’? You shouldn’t be.

 A week ago, Tom Cruise was in London for the opening of his newest film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, when the rarest of occurrences happened on the red carpet: A reporter asked Cruise a real []

Sister of L.A. Scientologist arrested for Muslim threats was Don Trump Jr’s executive assistant

[Katherine Feigin and Trump Winery manager Kerry Hannon Woolard working at Trump Tower]

“I’m not a Scientologist. I don’t have a gun. I’m a Democrat. I’m not part of this craziness at all,” Katherine Feigin told us tonight after we discovered that she had worked for Donald Trump Jr as his executive and personal assistant from []

Trump supporter arrested for threatening to kill Muslims at L.A. Islamic center is a Scientologist

 The Los Angeles Police Department revealed yesterday that it had arrested a 40-year-old man named Mark Lucian Feigin on October 19 for making two calls to the Islamic Center of Southern California and threatening to kill people there. A search at Feigin’s home turned up a large arsenal of rifles and ammunition, and police also []

Until the spaceships arrive, Scientologists measure cosmic success in framed glory

 Jeffrey Augustine joins us again to take a fresh look at one of Scientology’s most characteristic schemes. Take it away, []