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Greek church calls BS on Scientology: Why doesn’t this happen more often?

The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church – the church’s ruling body – has issued a warning to Greeks about Scientology infiltrating public institutions, such as schools, under the guise of drug awareness activities. In a statement released on 5 September, it […]

More letters — from Ethan Suplee and others — on behalf of Danny Masterson to Judge Olmedo

Last week, we created a firestorm when we published letters by Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis that they had written to Judge Charlaine Olmedo, asking for leniency after their That ‘70s Show costar Danny Masterson was convicted May 31 for two counts of forcible […]

The Jane Doe victim statements at Danny Masterson’s sentencing: The transcript

[Listen well, Danny]

On the day of Thursday’s sentencing, we couldn’t be in Los Angeles, but we had several correspondents letting us know what was going on, including one who took detailed […]

How Gwyneth Paltrow is helping out Scientology this 9-11

Since Scientology’s TV channel (we hesitate to call it a “network”) first debuted in 2018, we’ve mostly kept away from it because it’s 24 hours of propaganda and nearly […]

Today at Daily Beast: Joe Reaiche threatens to sue Danny Masterson’s sibs over court letters

[Former rugby player Joe Reaiche has a scrum on his hands with his kids Jordan and Alanna Masterson]

Hey, gang, we’re back at The Daily Beast this morning, and how sweet it is.

The publication reached out to us during this week’s chaos following Danny Masterson’s sentencing to 30 years to life in prison and our subsequent […]

PODCAST: This week’s sentencing and letters drama left us needing some group therapy

The gang is back together this week for some Group Therapy, but given the magnitude of this week’s Scientology news, we thought we’d make this episode available to […]

LIVE: Meghann Cuniff’s reporting sizzled and her photos from Masterson trial were iconic

One of the reporters we got to know well as we covered Danny Masterson’s two criminal trials was Meghann Cuniff, an independent journalist who writes for her own Substack and was one of the hardest working people we saw at the […]

Danny Masterson’s attorneys ask for concurrent sentences to lessen his time

We announced last month the reasons that we would not be in court today for Danny Masterson’s sentencing. It’s a great disappointment for us not to be there, after the days we spent in both trials bringing you as much as we could during every moment of this court […]

Indie Scientologists go on the attack: Victoria Palmer plans Sep 23 protest at Big Blue

[Victoria Palmer at the Reno gathering last month]

From the very beginning, in the early 1950s, there have always been adherents of L. Ron Hubbard’s “technology” who broke away from his official movement to practice his ideas on their […]

How Scientology lured a Sci-Fi fan, but drove him away with its lack of imagination

[Ron Kasman, young Scientologist SF artist]

I first heard about Scientology from a cousin at my mother’s kitchen table. From that introduction, I entered the Church of Scientology on Sunday, December 27, 1970 to attend a Sunday service. I wrote about that experience here previously. That story was written fifty years to the day after that […]

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