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Scientology’s antivaxx warrior Leigh Dundas unleashes another amazing Two Minutes Hate

 Antivaxx, anti-mask, and anti-slowtalking OT Scientologist attorney Leigh Dundas put on another amazing performance for the Orange County Board of Supervisors this week, this time agitating against the county re-approving its local health emergency in response to the coronavirus []

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‘Scientology’s Hogwarts’ and other schools got PPP loans

[Delphian School in Oregon]

On Tuesday we pointed out that in the release of information from the Trump administration listing which companies received small-business bailout loans under the Paycheck Protection Program to help them get through the coronavirus crisis, there were three Scientology churches, two Narconon drug rehabs, and Scientology’s most unhinged front group, Citizens Commission []

Who knew? Scientology Volunteer Ministers bring ‘spiritual’ aid to disasters & not just PR

 For years we’ve been keeping an eye on Scientology’s attempts to take advantage of natural (and man-made) disasters as public relations opportunities with the use of their “Volunteer Minister” corps. []

Scientology’s global virus playacting was supplied by giant California slave labor plant

 For months now we’ve been getting reports from readers on several different continents that Scientologists have been out in their neighborhoods, clad in PPE and looking like government or medical officials, and are handing out booklets about the coronavirus while wearing masks and gloves and other []

Scientology spends boatloads promoting mask use, but don’t ask Scientologists to wear one

 Meet Martin Sherman. []

Buffy goes Clear, and other signs that Scientology has survived the coronavirus

[Buffy: “Now I am my best friend!”]

Yesterday we learned that Scientology is preparing a “Done Sir” congratulation to church leader David Miscavige for the way he seized on the coronavirus pandemic as a public relations []

DONE SIR: Scientology leader David Miscavige caught flattering himself for virus PR ploy

 Oh, this is []

Hanging out with Scientologists going door-to-door in ‘Volunteer Minister’ hazmat suits

 A big thanks to the reader who sent in the video he shot this week as he came across a couple of Scientologists near the Valley Org in Los []

Scientology ‘Sunday service’ has always been a lazy PR ploy, and now it’s on full display

 People who come out of Scientology after years or decades have a lot to tell you. About the auditing they went through, the training to be auditors, the special rundowns they might have experienced, or what it was liking working as a staff member or in the Sea Org. []

Miscavige scores: Ohio Gov. DeWine to send out thousands of Scientology pamphlets

 Our thanks to Rod Keller for spotting this one. He noticed that at a press conference last Thursday, Ohio’s popular governor Mike DeWine announced a new initiative to address Covid-19’s disproportionate effect on minority communities, and showed off a health kit that the state will be handing out which included a pamphlet with coronavirus information.

It []