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HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY, CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY

 
Ah, what an auspicious day! Seventy years ago to this day, the very first “Church of Scientology” entity was incorporated, and it’s been a hell of a ride ever since.

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Day One dictator? A good idea, at least to some Q patriots

Life in Scientology: Saving the planet and lining your pockets at the same time!

 
Anyone who has been involved in Scientology likely knows about “FSMing.” FSM stands for Field Staff Member. In the 1960s founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote a policy letter that established this system.

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Oh, snap: Rudy Giuliani hit with $148 million judgment in defamation case

Help Scientology celebrate its New Year’s event by signing a petition!

[Scientology leader David Miscavige at the last NYE celebration in LA, to bring in 2020]

Ah, New Year’s Eve! Can you feel the excitement?

We know, we know, it’s not even Christmas yet, what is this about New Year’s Eve?

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Foreign cash through the NFT trading cards (at $99 a pop)? Clever, Trump!

Scientology knows things are bad, so they’re selling nostalgia for their golden age

 
Our thanks to the reader who forwarded along another propaganda mailing from the Church of Scientology that has struck us as a little unusual and that we thought you’d want to see.

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Jacob Chansley, the Q Shaman, rebrands for a run at Congress

How Scientology makes forced disconnection even worse than the separation

[Sunny and her mother]

“She knows what she has to do.”

It was a matter-of-fact statement to my husband from my mother. I was pregnant with our second child and we wanted to let my Sea Org mother know about it. She had never met my children or my husband. We had thought he could call her up and let her know she was welcome to see our children and us. Of course she would not, because I, her daughter, was labelled a “Suppressive Person” by Scientology, over a decade earlier.

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Court cases? Gag orders? Criminal charges? The grift must go on (and on)