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Scientology’s 2024: Another year is in the books at the Underground Bunker!

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 already been 2025 for an hour for our readers in New Zealand. And Happy New Year, Kiwis! For most Scientology watchers, however, we’re still several hours away from the party getting started, and []

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Scientology litigation 2024: A roundup of the cases we’ve been following all year

[Leah Remini, Valeska Paris, Dr. David Minkoff, and Valerie Haney]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’re following more lawsuits and criminal prosecutions than ever before, but much of it has been mired in appeals and other delaying tactics by Scientology. []

Scientology has one last grab for your kids in 2024

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Let’s dive into the mail bag again one more time and thank our many correspondents who have sent us so much good stuff in 2024. For parents, of course, this last week of the []

The ‘Truth Rundown’: Scientology’s most extreme form of gaslighting

[Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (1944)]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: [What is this Substack thing, []

This is the guy selling you a mystery sandwich in those Scientology TV ads

 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 telling you about new TV ads that Scientology is running in 30 countries (they say) in a big new push. And once again, the ads feature a narrator trying to make Scientology []

Here’s why you’re suddenly seeing so many Scientology ads on TV

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: At its UK October gala, Scientology premiered 3 new TV ads. And it’s becoming clear that leader David Miscavige is putting a big effort behind them. The church now says they will be broadcast []

Does Shelly Miscavige know it’s Christmas 2024?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On Christmas Day each year we review what we know about the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, and wonder, why won’t Scientology let her see her family on this of all days? [What is this []

For Christmas Eve, we have Scientology videos full of cheer

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We have plenty of wrapping to do today, and we thought you might too, so we’ve lined up some Scientology-related videos you can play when you have a moment to sit with a cup []

Scientology opens ‘Ideal Mission’ in hotspot where it ran city council candidate

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday Scientology issued a press release announcing that it had opened a brand spanking new ‘Ideal Mission’ in McMinnville, Oregon, and with the whole nine yards — giant bow and ribbon, balloons, and local []

The Underground Bunker’s 2024 Scientology year-in-review starts today!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Another winter solstice has sneaked up on us here in the northern hemisphere, and to our antipodean friends, enjoy your summer! Once again it’s time to take stock of the year just past with []