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Fact-checking the Scientology mentions in Priscilla Presley’s new memoir

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It was just last October that Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous ‘From Here to the Great Unknown’ came out and we checked it for mentions of Scientology. Now, her mother Priscilla has a new memoir, and we go over its mentions of Scientology, which contain some surprising errors. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Surprise! Scientology gets a no from local council as showdown over big tent looms

[Scientology’s giant tent in 2019]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The showdown going on between Scientology and local politicians over its big tent for an annual gala in the UK heated up even more as a local town council threw its refusal of the church’s plans into the mix. Alex Barnes-Ross updates us things are looking dicier by the minute! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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How bad is the AI blunder by attorneys opposing Scientology in the 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: Sunday, we reported the shocking news that Scientology had caught the attorneys for the Danny Masterson victims using bogus AI-generated case citations in in the ‘Bixler’ civil lawsuit. We asked appellate attorney TX Lawyer for his thoughts on just how bad this situation is. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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What politicians need to know about Scientology’s anti-psychiatry agenda

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology, through its most unhinged front group, CCHR, has roped in another politician, this time in Florida, to forward a bill that advances Scientology’s anti-psychiatry agenda. But the church itself spelled out those goals in a secret document we can show you now. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology catches Masterson victim attorneys with AI-fudged citations in court filing

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Just what the Danny Masterson victims did NOT need. Their attorneys at prestigious Boies Schiller Flexner have admitted their ’embarrassing’ mistake after Scientology caught them including bogus AI-generated citations in an appeal briefing. Will the court accept a do-over? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology’s shills line up to sing its praises for crucial planning application

[Nancy Cartwright with last year’s charity recipients]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is rolling the dice, waiting until the last minute to apply for big changes at its UK headquarters ahead of a major annual event usually attended by Tom Cruise. And to make sure it succeeds, they’ve lined up various shills to make it sound like the best thing ever. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Clearwater council not into Scientology donor’s glass art, will try again

[Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector wants the city to think big]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Clearwater’s city council doesn’t want Scientology’s richest donor putting a branch of her existing Tampa Bay glass art museum in their library, so they decided this week to try again for a better tenant. And former vice mayor Mark ‘Wise Beard Man’ Bunker has a suggestion! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology mega-donor Tom Cummins: How can a deathless thetan make a will?

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As a Scientology OT 8, mega-donor Tom Cummins can resist invader forces trying to erase his memory during his ‘between-lives’ period, and will remember who he is when he starts out his next lifetime. But what about his stacks of cash? It turns out he’s thought deeply about that! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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This is how Scientology is going to turn around its ship of state!

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: So much of what Scientology focuses on now is leveraging the few people it has left. You see it in the recovery efforts to bring back former members, and getting active members to bring in everyone they possibly can. We have a fun new example from one of our helpful readers. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Wall Street Journal unmasks startup’s troubling Scientology ties

[Chicago Scientologist Joe Cecala made the front page of the Journal!]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We noted yesterday the investigation of Scientology that appeared at the Wall Street Journal’s website Sunday. But this morning the piece is on the newspaper’s front page. And it’s so rare to see Scientology taken apart at the Journal we figured it was worth pointing out twice! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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