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Courts have no excuse: Scientology’s ‘Fair Game’ harassment tactics were exposed early on

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Our helper who dives into old news archives is at it again. This time we have a collection of items demonstrating that Scientology’s harassing ‘Fair Game’ has long been exposed in court cases. There’s []

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Scientology and ‘dropping the body’: More reactions from our readers

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We continue to receive reactions from readers since Scientology angrily denied that the church encourages ill members to ‘drop the body’ and start new lifetimes. We’ve been hearing from former church members who say []

Swiss authorities charge former Scientology donor, set trial date

[Jailed Scientology donor Ivan Gaspari with church leader David Miscavige]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We previously described a bizarre situation in Switzerland, where a Scientology mega-donor is in jail on accusations by the richest Scientologist donor of all, Trish []

Valeska Paris cites new Supreme Court opinion, asks court to reconsider arbitration ruling

[Valeska is seizing on a Supreme Court ruling]

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 federal judge admitted that he was shocked that existing case law required him to force Valeska Paris’s labor trafficking lawsuit into Scientology ‘arbitration.’ But Valeska’s []

Scientology’s latest price list: How much will it cost you to fly, space cadet?

[Joining Dave at Flag is going to cost you]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We want to thank the reader who sent the first #Scientology price list we’ve seen in a while, and it’s from the Flag Land Base in []

Scientology’s response to Whitney Mills lawsuit is to lie about suicide instruction

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology issued an angry response to news about the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Whitney Mills, the OT 8 Scientologist who died tragically in 2022. We asked Claire Headley about the []

Scientology meltdown: L. Ron Hubbard 2.0 in crisis after indictments publicized

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We can’t help being fascinated by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the ex-con sitting in a Tennessee jail with followers who believe he is the reincarnated Scientology leader. But now he’s admitted to a shocking crisis []

Scientology makes it official: New Paris ‘Ideal Org’ is best thing ever

[Paris gets its first Clear]

 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 new Paris ‘Ideal Org’ is in a somewhat shabby corner of town. How many people are going to pull off the A1 for a personality test? But David Miscavige []

Trish Duggan, Scientology’s richest, is keeping another donor in jail in… Switzerland?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: EXCLUSIVE: We describe a bizarre situation that involves Scientology’s richest donor, Trish Duggan, having another church donor jailed in Switzerland as a private accuser. But the jailed man says Trish invested in his company []

Scientology suicide: How Quentin Hubbard’s death was covered in the press

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: After we posted the most recent version of our ‘Not Forgotten’ memorial, which included Quentin Hubbard, the troubled son of #Scientology’s founder, we received this touching tribute from Val Ross, looking back at the []