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Former staffer sues Scientology for racial discrimination

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We talked yesterday with a Georgia man named Justin Aamir Adkins. On Monday, he filed a federal lawsuit against Scientology for racial discrimination. But it’s not a work dispute, and it involves convicted fraudster []

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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s year from hell: Ron’s bigamy begins to catch up with him

[Ron and Sara’s 1951 court fight attracted attention from his first wife]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What they don’t tell you in Scientology: When founder L. Ron Hubbard’s legal battle with his second wife blew up 75 years ago []

Scientology claims 7,000 witnessed Saturday’s groundbreaking for L. Ron Hubbard Hall

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Building an auditorium named after founder L. Ron Hubbard is a major step to Scientology completing its own Vatican City. And leader David Miscavige put on a lavish display Saturday that left no doubt []

Scientology’s new initiative for kids: A peek inside

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Ever since we posted a photo of Tom Cruise and John Travolta giving David Miscavige a standing ovation as the Scientology leader unveiled a new initiative aimed at kids, we’ve been curious about what’s []

Scientology’s David Miscavige holds ground-breaking in Clearwater with mockup of Hall

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Saturday in Clearwater, Scientology’s David Miscavige held a ground-breaking for the church’s future auditorium, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, and put the exclamation point on the city’s capitulation to him. We have some initial images, []

Scientology unleashes another phalanx of super beings to rescue this planet!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yes! It’s another class of Scientology super beings who have reached OT 8, the top of the ‘Bridge to Total Freedom.’ According to founder L. Ron Hubbard these folks should be able to crush []

Seeing double: Two new Ideal Orgs coming for Scientology at the same time?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As Scientology leader David Miscavige prepares to break ground in Clearwater tonight, his push for more empty cathedrals continues. We consider evidence of multiple new ‘Ideal Org’ projects coming in various parts of the []

Scientology reveals its own sad state: Making five OTs a week, worldwide

[Where’s the love for Ron?]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It’s always a treat when Scientology reveals the actual numbers behind its ‘expansion.’ And today, we have an amazing leak of just how poorly things are really going, thanks to []

Why the news about Tom Cruise and daughter Suri is even worse than the media lets on

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Media coverage of Suri Noelle’s name change has been a frenzy over the last couple of days. We just wanted to emphasize something that tends to get lost when these stories review Scientology rules []

Danny Masterson’s Scientology ‘Hail Mary:’ Good try but probably not enough, says expert

[Dave threw Danny a lifeline with Scientology’s amicus]

 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 brought you Danny Masterson’s entire 26-page brief about the way Scientology was discussed in his trial, which finishes up his appeal. But was it an []