TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We want to thank the reader who passed along a new fundraising letter from Scientology. We’re always interested in church leader David Miscavige’s latest schemes and strategies for funding his various initiatives, and this one contained a surprise. [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: It recently came to our attention that we missed the news of the passing of an interesting figure from Scientology history. He was a religious lobbyist whose connections to the Vatican were being secretly employed by Scientology’s spy wing when he was outed by its defectors. [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: Since he used subterfuge to purchase Clearwater’s Fort Harrison Hotel in 1975, it has stood as a monument to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, who was a classic reactionary and apartheid supporter. But sure, the NAACP wants to party down in Ron town? Sure, why not? [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: Last time we learned a wealthy family funding Scientology’s Vatican in Florida was also owner of a renowned Haunted House complex. This time, the church sent notice that another donor ropes in dentists for Hubbardism. Don’t like that? What, are you an anti-dentite? [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: Janis Grady and Mark Fisher recently reported that longtime Sea Org member Marion Pouw had died. Daily Mail Australia followed with a good piece about her history in Scientology. But what did this woman Ron Miscavige called a ‘henchman’ actually do? We have an interesting witness. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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