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Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]

Woman featured in HBO series on QAnon says she’d like to sue the network

[Jenn Buteau is not happy with her portrayal]

Some links to Q-related items today…

The border issue is complex for Q patriots, because although Fox News and other conservative media is portraying the situation as a crisis for Biden, they believe the Trump is actually still in control and so there can’t be a crisis going on. […]

Q patriots seem unfazed by HBO’s first two episodes of ‘Into the Storm’

Some links to Q-related items today…

Reactions to the new HBO documentary are starting to go through the Q […]

Q patriots really bewildered by Trump and the vaccine, while HBO prepares to name Q

[Ron Watkins]

Some links to Q-related items […]

Scientology hopes to benefit from Michael Jackson estate’s arbitration win against HBO

[DON’T MISS yesterday’s evening exclusive: Leah Remini responds to Tom Cruise’s Covid rant and puts it in its Scientology context.]

If you waded through that long court transcript we posted yesterday, you know that one of the challenges Scientology is facing in Los Angeles Superior Court is that Judge Steven Kleifield has some doubts about Scientology’s […]

Florida firing the architect of its COVID-19 dashboard reflects Red State data manipulation

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

A few places have already reported on Florida’s firing in late May of Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah), a scientist at the Florida Department of Health and the architect of Florida’s online COVID-19 dashboard. But her story needs amplification because it’s indicative of the […]

HBO appeals in ‘Leaving Neverland’ fight with Michael Jackson estate over a 1992 contract

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this Hollywood Reporter story: HBO Taking Michael Jackson ‘Leaving Neverland’ Dispute to Appeals Court]

This is pretty interesting. Michael Jackson’s estate wasn’t happy with HBO’s “Finding Neverland” documentary, so it looked to the boilerplate non-disparagement and arbitration clauses in a wholly unrelated […]

Scientologists in Texas neighborhood battle turn out to include Lori Hodgson’s daughter

[Jonathan and Jessica Davitt and their Austin home]

One of the consequences of Scientology’s toxic “disconnection” policy is that the people who are affected can go years between any news at all about the loved ones who have cut them out of their […]

Nxivm: Cross of Mark Vicente begins, Keith Raniere’s attorney digs into HBO project

[Raniere’s attorney Marc Agnifilo. Photo by Dianne Lipson]

Dianne Lipson is out of the court after the Nxivm trial’s morning session, which saw the conclusion of Mark Vicente’s direct testimony and the beginning of his cross-examination by Keith Raniere’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo. Here are her […]

Where is Scientology dying most Ideally? Could it be our neighbor to the north?

All the Scientology propaganda in the world, pumped out through leader David Miscavige’s fancy TV station and a million fliers, can’t make up for the reality that Scientology is dying — and in some places, it’s going quickly. Our thanks to Phil Jones, who sent in this report from on location in our great neighbor […]

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 […]

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