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How bad is the AI blunder by attorneys opposing Scientology in the Masterson civil case?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Sunday, we reported the shocking news that Scientology had caught the attorneys for the Danny Masterson victims using bogus AI-generated case citations in in the ‘Bixler’ civil lawsuit. We asked appellate attorney TX Lawyer []

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What politicians need to know about Scientology’s anti-psychiatry agenda

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology, through its most unhinged front group, CCHR, has roped in another politician, this time in Florida, to forward a bill that advances Scientology’s anti-psychiatry agenda. But the church itself spelled out those goals []

Scientology catches Masterson victim attorneys with AI-fudged citations in court filing

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Just what the Danny Masterson victims did NOT need. Their attorneys at prestigious Boies Schiller Flexner have admitted their ’embarrassing’ mistake after Scientology caught them including bogus AI-generated citations in an appeal briefing. Will []

Scientology’s shills line up to sing its praises for crucial planning application

[Nancy Cartwright with last year’s charity recipients]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is rolling the dice, waiting until the last minute to apply for big changes at its UK headquarters ahead of a major annual event usually attended by []

Clearwater council not into Scientology donor’s glass art, will try again

[Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector wants the city to think big]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Clearwater’s city council doesn’t want Scientology’s richest donor putting a branch of her existing Tampa Bay glass art museum in their library, so they decided []

Scientology mega-donor Tom Cummins: How can a deathless thetan make a will?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As a Scientology OT 8, mega-donor Tom Cummins can resist invader forces trying to erase his memory during his ‘between-lives’ period, and will remember who he is when he starts out his next lifetime. []

This is how Scientology is going to turn around its ship of state!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: So much of what Scientology focuses on now is leveraging the few people it has left. You see it in the recovery efforts to bring back former members, and getting active members to bring []

Wall Street Journal unmasks startup’s troubling Scientology ties

[Chicago Scientologist Joe Cecala made the front page of the Journal!]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We noted yesterday the investigation of Scientology that appeared at the Wall Street Journal’s website Sunday. But this morning the piece is on the []

When Lolita met Xenu: How Scientology targeted Nabokov’s publisher

[Maurice Girodias and Olympia Press]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Seventy years ago today the unconventional publisher Maurice Girodias published Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ for the first time. Historian Chris Owen does a deep dive to explain how he then became a []

The turning point: When paranoia became official Scientology policy

[Hubbard at his office in 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: By 1959, L. Ron Hubbard was feeling the pressure. He and Scientology were under investigation in the US, and he was increasingly concerned about breakaway groups. So that []