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Press roundup: HBO will give Nxivm the ‘Going Clear’ treatment

 
UPDATE: We’ll have a correspondent at the courthouse this afternoon as Clare Bronfman and Kathy Russell plead guilty. That only leaves Keith Raniere — will Vanguard take on the prosecutors all on his own?

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Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Lord’s Evening Meal: Lloyd Evans asks, should you go?

 
Yesterday we asked ex-JW activist Lloyd Evans some dumb questions about the Lord’s Evening Meal, or The Memorial, that will be taking place tomorrow. Now, he’s put together a video for his audience about the annual event.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses test new legal strategy to combat child abuse claims: Call it incest

 
Watchtower has made the claim that most JW child abuse cases involve incest.

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Passing bread around and not painting eggs: It’s Easter the Jehovah’s Witnesses way!

 
We noticed Jehovah’s Witnesses making preparations for this important week in the Christian world, and so we thought we’d ask ex-JW activist Lloyd Evans some stupid questions about what’s going on.

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Nxivm judge reveals some fun new details as he rejects Kathy Russell’s dismissal bid

[Kathy Russell and Judge Nicholas Garaufis]

We thought that Nxivm bookkeeper Kathy Russell had made a pretty interesting last-minute argument for dismissing charges against her, but Judge Nicholas Garaufis rejected her motion to dismiss with a pretty interesting order we knew you’d want to see.

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She was stunned by the lion’s beauty — so she shot it dead

 
Have you seen these trophy hunting websites? Seriously, they are something else. This is an actual caption to a photo that we’ve replaced above with an illustration by talented cartoonist Chad Essley. We’re not making this up…

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Lloyd Evans gets out his crystal ball to see the future for Jehovah’s Witnesses

 
Where is the Watch Tower and Bible Society of Pennsylvania, A/K/A, the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization, headed? We’ve seen a lot of bad news about child abuse being covered up in the church here and abroad. But does that mean changes are coming? Or, with 8 million members, is this a movement that’s too big to fail?

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Allison Mack may be on her way to prison, but she can sing really well!

 
Frank Parlato is having too much fun at his blog as the leaders of Nxivm are, one after the other, getting the boom lowered on them in federal court. And now that Smallville actress Allison Mack has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in September to perhaps up to 20 years in prison, Frank has posted a couple of videos of her singing.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses and legal warfare: What it looks like in the trenches

 
Yesterday we listened in on Lloyd Evans, Mark O’Donnell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation talking about Watch Tower’s attempt to “dox” Darkspilver, who has posted critical information about the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization at Reddit.

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‘I buried your dog today’: A searing message for a nameless dog owner

 
We ran across this moving tribute written by Diz Schroeder of Montana. She posted it to Facebook on April 5 and made it shareable for the public, and it now has more than 64,000 shares. We thought you’d want to see it.

 
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