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Cathy’s cruel ‘arbitration’: Can this denunciation finally upend Scientology’s star chamber?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The victims in Scientology’s farcical ‘arbitration’ in a federal trafficking case have something that really seems impressive: a declaration from the country’s foremost expert on what arbitration is actually supposed to be. Could this []

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Gawain and Laura Baxter detail Scientology’s unprofessional Clearwater ‘arbitration’

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Valeska Paris and Gawain and Laura Baxter went through 15 days of Scientology ‘religious arbitration’ in Clearwater before walking out. They are now asking a court to intervene, saying it was a sham proceeding. []

The Expert: Full affidavit by psychologist called to Scientology’s Clearwater arbitration

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday we began to learn what’s been going on in the Scientology labor-trafficking lawsuit in Florida. Although she was only in the proceeding for a single day, a psychologist has stark observations about the []

Judge unseals testimony describing farcical Scientology arbitration in trafficking case

[Remember Cathy Fraser from Louis Theroux’s ‘My Scientology Movie’?]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A Tampa court has ruled it would not allow a new motion in a Scientology labor trafficking case to be filed under seal, and so a []

Scientology complains victims bailed after 15 days of arbitration in labor-trafficking case

[Valeska Paris, the Fort Harrison, and Scientology attorney Charles M. Harris Jr.]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Wow! More detail has now emerged about the ‘religious arbitration’ that Scientology labor-trafficking victims were forced into by a Tampa federal court. After []

Tom Cruise and John Travolta cheered Miscavige: Why doesn’t he want the public to know?

[Megadonors Alan Atkinson-Baker and Craig Jensen in the foreground, then Doug E. Fresh, Bodhi and Jenna Elfman, Travolta, an unidentified woman, Cruise, and megadonor Trish Duggan]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last week we found a photo from Scientology’s L. []

First results of Scientology’s creepy new focus on kids starting to come in

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We saw Tom Cruise and John Travolta give church leader David Miscavige a standing ovation the night he revealed Scientology’s new focus on children. And now, it’s the kids’ turn. The success stories are []

Scientology grooming kids: Excitement as the new books actually begin to arrive

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The new Scientology books aimed at grooming kids as young as 7 for a life of L. Ron Hubbard thinking have actually started to arrive now, and we know this because of a photo []

Scientology restores the villa where Ron dreamed up Xenu? Jon Atack has thoughts.

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of the surprises of the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday was Scientology leader David Miscavige announcing another shrine: The villa in Las Palmas where Ron dreamed up the Xenu story! That seemed a bit []

Scientology’s big donors wining and dining Cesar Millan? What’s up with that?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Ian Rafalko recently sent us images showing some of Scientology’s biggest donors hanging out with Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer. Ian wondered if they were trying to get in with the longtime TV star. []