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Former Dream Exchanger on Scientology at the startup, and other problems

[Joe Cecala and Dwain Kyles of Dream Exchange]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Former Dream Exchange employee Jeff Ferrell went public this last week with more problems at the startup featured in a Wall Street Journal investigation. We talked to []

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Scientology runs into even more obstacles as big tent party approaches

[Whoops! Alex finds even more in the files]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: With less than two weeks until the start of this year’s big IAS gala at Scientology’s UK headquarters in England, the church’s planning application that seeks to []

Scientology has found its secret weapon to take over the planet. He’s 23.

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Even if Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s vision of taking over the planet is even less likely now than when he was alive, people signing billion-year contracts today dedicate themselves just as ardently as []

Tom Cruise single again? Scientology is ready to cash in either way!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The tabs are saying Tom Cruise’s romance with fellow actor Ana de Armas is already kaput. We don’t know if that’s true, but once again Scientology has tapped into Tom’s fame to help it []

Scientology’s ham hock Grant Gardone slapped down by UK ad council

 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 writing about Scientology’s professional ham hock Grant Cardone since 2011, and we are always surprised that his various antics don’t run him into more regulatory snags. So it’s refreshing to see that []

Attorney for Masterson victims again admits AI error, but rejects Scientology remedy

[Boies Schiller partner John Kucera]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology blasted Boies Schiller partner John Kucera for AI errors in the lawsuit against Danny Masterson & the Church. Kucera has now replied, asking the court to separate whatever price []

IAS set for Halloween (boo!), but was once held on Scientology’s spooky cruise ship!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Now that the IAS gala is set for Halloween at Scientology’s UK headquarters, we have a reminder that not only has this event been held at different times, but also outside of Great Britain. []

More Scientology allegations about Dream Exchange, now from a former executive

[Former Dream Exchange executive Jeffery Ferrell, left]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Wall Street Journal investigation of startup Dream Exchange was a hard-hitting look at a business that wants to become a stock exchange catering to Black-owned businesses. Now, []

IAS on Halloween: Scientology’s party is set, and so is the protest

[Alex makes his case.]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology has finally put out word that the IAS gala will take place the weekend of October 31 at its UK headquarters. Former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross will also be there []

Scientology opens Silicon Valley ‘Ideal Mission’ — where it already has ‘Ideal Org’

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology chose Wednesday to put out a press release announcing that it had opened another “Ideal Mission” last month, on September 21. The delay in announcing the news seems a little odd, but it’s []