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After ditching Scientology: Joy Villa on hanging with the Cruise and Travolta kids

[Joy Villa, right, with reclusive Scientology celebrity Connor Cruise]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On May 14, Joy Villa announced publicly that she’d left Scientology and was turning her attention to exposing the organization’s abuses. She also had access to []

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Scientology documents: Church freakout over the Tom Cruise-Brooke Shields feud

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Previously unpublished internal Scientology documents give us a new glimpse behind the scenes as church leaders were freaking out over the Tom Cruise-Brooke Shields feud. And wait until you hear who they sent to []

Now that Scientology has lost, here’s the case it made for a UK protest ban

[Scientology’s solicitor Peter Hodkin really didn’t like protesting being done by the likes of Martin Padfield outside Saint Hill Manor]

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 official: A regional council is recommending that a protest ban outside Scientology’s UK headquarters []

The world is on fire, but Scientology is here to make everything OK!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The news coming at us is pretty distressing, but at least we can take a brief break from the latest apocalypse to enjoy just how ridiculous the Church of Scientology is as it prepares []

Saying goodbye is hard. Scientology makes it so much harder.

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Valerie Ross has another meaningful piece for us today, and our thanks for the job she does tackling a difficult subject. It’s never easy to lose someone in your life. But Scientology, she explains, []

How police were duped into detaining Alex Barnes-Ross at Tom Cruise protest

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: New documents from London police help explain why they thought it necessary to detain Alex Barnes-Ross at the May 15 ‘Mission: Impossible’ premiere which featured actor Tom Cruise in attendance. They were lied to, []

Mark Bunker: Clearwater council argues about Florida AG siding with Scientology

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last night Clearwater’s city council once again took up the subject of Scientology’s domination of its downtown, and Mark Bunker made the scene. He broke down the latest issues facing the city in a []

Scientology ‘arbitration’ ripped apart by trafficking experts in law journal

 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 disappointed by academic types in the past, so it’s really refreshing to see an academic journal take a serious swipe at Scientology and its arbitration scheme, which has been used to derail []

Scientology’s most notorious dirty PI, and the chaos caused by his cop son

[Ingram and his son Rex]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: For Scientology watchers, former LAPD cop Eugene Ingram is a legendary figure. For 30 years he was the chief operator in the church’s retaliation schemes. Nearly a decade ago we []

Scientology is still buying up properties to create its Florida ‘Vatican’

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: While Scientology leader David Miscavige’s effort to take control of a short street near the Flag Building in downtown Clearwater, Florida has been temporarily foiled, that doesn’t mean that his plan for making Clearwater []