TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: While he was in Las Vegas, ‘Apostate Alex’ Barnes-Ross made contact with a source at the Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ there. What Alex received was a snapshot of how the org is performing, and it confirms a lot of what we’ve been hearing about the state of David Miscavige’s cabal. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Field report: Alex gets a source inside Scientology’s Las Vegas Ideal Org

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A federal judge has denied the motion by Valeska Paris asking him to do something about Scientology’s ‘religious arbitration’ becoming intolerable. The judge didn’t even compel Scientology to put an end date on what has already lasted 15 days, with no end in sight. Incredible. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Judge refuses to intervene, Scientology arbitration will have to continue in trafficking case

 
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 told you the breaking news, that an appeals court upheld a ruling that denied Scientology’s attempt to gut the lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s victims. Now, here’s the full 64-page opinion for you to see this almost total win for the Jane Does. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Full ruling denying Scientology’s appeal of its anti-SLAPP in the Danny Masterson civil case

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Over the past week we’ve taken a couple of looks at California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra’s past as an enthusiastic Scientology booster. But we wondered, how does he feel about Scientology today? Now we have an answer, and David Miscavige isn’t going to like it. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Xavier Becerra says he’s seen the light about Scientology after years as a booster

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Marc and Claire Headley have been great favorites of ours ever since they knocked us out with their stories of escaping Scientology, which Marc told so well in his book ‘Blown for Good.’ But we were taken by surprise when we heard from them after a recent story that we posted. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Marc Headley spots his ‘disconnected’ sister in a Scientology mailer we posted at the Bunker