TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What happens when two Underground Bunker readers go in search of their Scientology white whale: The Ideal Org that never gets built. A picture story for our Beckettian age. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Waiting for Xenu: What it’s like when your Scientology Ideal Org never comes

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We told you about Scientology’s newest holy shrines to founder L. Ron Hubbard, and that another one was having its grand opening in May, in Phoenix. We have photos from the event now, including the shills who gave speeches. And this time they managed to snag a city councilman! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Scientology threw another party and you weren’t invited — this time in Phoenix!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A few minutes into the newest episode of ‘I’m a Scientologist’ at Scientology’s TV network, which features the church’s wealthiest donor, Trish Duggan, she reveals something about herself that really threw us for a loop. She says she writes for WHO now? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Trump and Scientology benefactor boasts that she writes for Forbes, Rolling Stone

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology denies it, but the simple truth is that even today its members are asked to spend ludicrous amounts to learn founder L. Ron Hubbard’s bad sci-fi story about invisible alien souls infesting every one of us. ALSO: Is this how Scientologists got to Florida’s leaders? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading He fought through Scientology’s Wall of Fire™ and lived to tell the tale!

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday we posted the response and cross-appeal filed by Leah Remini’s attorneys, answering Scientology’s appeal brief in Leah’s lawsuit against the church. Leah’s response seems thorough and well written. But is it good lawyering? We turned once again an expert for help. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading An appellate attorney looks at Leah Remini’s response to Scientology’s appeal