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Another reason for the blues in Memphis: Scientology is coming to town!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: If there’s one thing Scientology leader David Miscavige encourages, it’s big checks from wealthy members who want to make a splash, including from people so they can be ‘mission holders.’ Looks like Dave has []

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Religious groups resubmit amicus on behalf of Scientology celeb Danny Masterson’s appeal

[Make no mistake where David Miscavige is in the pecking order]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Apparently bolstered by the appeals court accepting Scientology’s ‘amicus’ on behalf of Danny Masterson on a second try, the 14 other religious groups that []

Revenge of the newts: Scientology gets more bad news about its plans at UK headquarters

[Dave is running into more issues with newts at Saint Hill!]

 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 wants to tear up some rural fields for his annual tent party at the church’s UK headquarters. Not surprisingly, environmental []

Scientology petitions the court: Where are the AI sanctions in the Danny Masterson lawsuit?

[Scientology and Masterson want punishment for John Kucera and Boies Schiller]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: After a Los Angeles court delivered a nearly total victory to the Jane Doe victims and rejected Scientology’s appeal of its anti-SLAPP in the []

Clearwater council votes 3-2 to approve street takeover by Scientology for its Vatican City

[Dave is grateful for Allbritton, Mannino, and Cotton]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It was only an initial vote and they’ll have to go through it again soon, but after hearing public testimony last night, Clearwater’s city council approved giving []

How Scientology destroys a family: An exasperating example

[Tammy and Julia, before disconnection]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Prepare yourself for a brutal story of Scientology manipulation and extortion, carried out for no more reason than totalitarian control of vulnerable people. This is what Scientology does, again and []

Appeals court accepts Scientology amicus on behalf of Danny Masterson — here it is in full

[Dave tries to put his thumb on the scales for Danny’s appeal]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Wow! After previously rejecting Scientology’s attempt to sway Danny Masterson’s appeal, this time the court has accepted the church’s 70-page ‘amicus’ brief with []

LEAK: Read how Scientology reassures local pols that its controversies are overblown

[Alex keeps a wary eye on Saint Hill and its Public Affairs Director, Graeme Wilson]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology’s abuses are recorded in decades of court documents, journalistic exposes, and the accounts of former members. But how does []

Look who’s back, and helping Scientology’s sneaky anti-psych front pass new laws!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In 2020 a former Scientology insider ran for elected office in Oregon, and we helped warn voters. Now that politically-ambitious former Sea Org exec has popped up in another part of the country, and []

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s year from hell: His unhinged letter to the US Atty General

[Hubbard and AG J. Howard McGrath, circa 1951]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In an era of rising McCarthyism, it was ‘a breathtaking concoction of lies, vituperation and wild allegations’: Check out the wildest moment during Scientology founder L. Ron []