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Scientology trying to ban protests at UK headquarters: Alex needs your input!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Former London Scientology staffer Alex Barnes-Ross has been keeping us current on the church’s efforts to get a law passed that would ban protesting at its UK headquarters. Now, he’s asking for your input []

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The disciplinary report of lawyer who abused the trust of a Scientology victim

[Suspended Philadelphia attorney Brian Kent]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Pennsylvania Bar has revealed it is suspending the license of attorney Brian Kent for 3 years, and published its report of what occurred between Kent and a woman who []

Scientology has a Spotify channel, and it’s all that we hoped

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: No joke, Scientology actually has a channel on Spotify. What could possibly be on it? L. Ron Hubbard’s epic tunes? The Apollo All Stars? Edgar Winter classics? Chaka Khan? No such luck. But still, []

Scientology pushes back in LA with 20 of their own billboards

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Aftermath Foundation stunned everyone by quietly posting 20 billboards in Los Angeles near Scientology buildings. Scientology’s response? After they failed to take down the Foundation’s signs, the church put up 20 of their []

Brooks Gibbs and the grass-roots movement that made Scientology blink

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What a surprising few weeks it’s been in Clearwater, Florida, the town Scientology has been trying to turn into its own Vatican. And maybe the most surprising has been the sudden rise of a []

Scientology’s deification of founder L. Ron Hubbard: More holy sites opening soon

 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 official line is that it was founded by the most remarkable man who ever lived, but that L. Ron Hubbard was just that — a man, and not a god. But current leader []

What’s it really like at L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology home?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross continues to find us interesting things that are being issued at Scientology’s UK headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, in East Sussex. He knew we’d be interested in this latest []

More Scientology big-donor shenanigans to keep us entertained

[Trish Duggan and a friend]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve been paying a lot of attention to Scientology leader David Miscavige lately, but we also keep an eye on the geniuses who fork over huge amounts of money to []

Hear skateboard star Aaron Kyro’s victory speech as he wins Scientology’s ‘Birthday Game’

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Mark Bunker comes through again! Last week he shared leaked audio from Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard birthday event in March. Now, there’s more, including Braille Skateboarding’s Aaron Kyro giving a speech for winning the []

Downfall of Scientology’s plan: Temporary setback, or permanent victory?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’re still getting reactions to this week’s wild news about David Miscavige’s plans for Scientology in Clearwater being temporarily held up if not spoiled indefinitely. And we wanted to share with you an observation []