TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A reader pointed out that an online homeschooling academy run by Scientology lifers is claiming to be affiliated with Cambridge University. That can’t be right, can it? We contacted Cambridge’s online schools division to clear it up. Imagine our shock when we got their answer. [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: The depravity of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s final work of fiction, the Mission Earth series, came up here at the Bunker recently. And now we’ve found in our library of leaked material some files from the lavish audio production of these wretched books. Oh joy. [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: More than 20 years ago Scientology leader David Miscavige set out to replace existing churches with gleaming new cathedrals in every major city in the world. But as we’ve seen in so many places, until Dave is ready for a grand opening these properties sit and rot in the meantime. [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: The FBI raided a church in Tampa yesterday over forced labor allegations — and it had nothing to do with Scientology. Former Scientologists have been waiting for similar news out of the Tampa/Clearwater area, but about a ‘church’ whose abuses have been laid bare for decades. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading FBI raids Tampa church, indicts leaders for forced labor: So why not Scientology?

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A new #success story has a mother of four gushing about learning to be ‘controlled by a man’ regarding processes we first learned about because Tom Cruise had gone through it himself. And meanwhile, new photos of an impending showdown in England over a giant tent. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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