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Your house is a charred ruin: It’s time for Scientology to hand out awards!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Is your house in Pacific Palisades or Altadena just a pile of ashes? Was your life turned upside down by apocalyptic wildfires, evacuations, and now the chance of mudslides? After a month like that, []

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Neville Chamberlin, 1947-2025: Exposed Scientology, as ‘Dart Smohen’

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We are sorry to hear of the passing of Neville Chamberlin, who was among the first members of Scientology’s Sea Org when it was formed in the sixties, and who, years later, wrote fascinating []

The White House is going after ‘anti-Christian bias’ — should Scientology worry?

[Scientology donors Trish Duggan and Grant Cardone]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The White House announced last week that President Trump signed an executive order to eradicate ‘anti-Christian bias.’ So does that mean Scientology, which has bizarre space-opera ideas denying []

Tom Cruise and Scientology photobombed a lopsided Super Bowl laugher

[Top Gun and Eagles fan 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: Wow, that was a lousy Super Bowl. But besides football. we also watch the game to see the reactions to the ad that Scientology airs, now for the []

Here’s the 2025 Scientology Super Bowl ad — this time it’s ‘The Question’

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A few hours ago, early in the morning of the day that Super Bowl LIX will take place in New Orleans, Scientology revealed its ad for the big game this year. And once again, []

Rebecca Minkoff’s RHONY flop may have helped her brand, but didn’t help Scientology

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We got around to watching Rebecca Minkoff’s final appearance on Real Housewives of New York, and wow, was it grim. She’s decided to leave the show, which is probably a good thing. Imagine if []

Surely this is the video that will get you to join Scientology staff, slacker!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We know, based on numerous lines of evidence, that the Church of Scientology is having a tough time staffing its many ‘Ideal Orgs’ around the country. But that doesn’t keep them from trying! We []

A new Scientology ‘success’ makes miracle claims we’re not used to seeing

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross sent us a mailer from Scientology’s UK headquarters featuring a woman who has attained the state of ‘Clear.’ But this one was a little different. It makes healing claims about a disabled []

Celebrity endorsements for Scientology’s Narconon drug rehab are back!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: How long has it been since we’ve seen a Scientology celebrity endorsement of Narconon? And not just any celebrity, but a skateboard hero who doesn’t normally do much promotional work for the church or []

Joy Villa at the Grammys, Scientology at Saint Hill: Music as a racket

[Joy was back at it again last night]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It was interesting to see social media responses to Joy Villa’s return to the Grammys last night. As in, Who is this woman and what the hell []