TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As much as Scientology is struggling and it suffers from horrible press and a terrible public image, its old-school methods still manage to bring in the curious. Why are we so easy to tantalize and mesmerize? It’s human nature, apparently. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Although the eye of Hurricane Helene passed west of the Tampa Bay area its storm surge produced historic flooding in Tampa and Clearwater, where one of the largest concentrations of Scientology members in the world is. We’re asking our Florida readers to check in! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Historic flooding from Hurricane Helene hits Scientology-heavy Tampa Bay

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: There’s more evidence that the activism by former staffer Alex Barnes-Ross has ‘enturbulated’ Scientology in major ways. Apostate Alex keeps pushing, and now he’s got the church in hot water over a barrier it planted to keep out the curious. Poor Dave! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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