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On Thursday, Salon writer Melanie McFarland noted that it was like clockwork: Whenever challenges to abortion rights come up on social media, there’s a reflexive use of imagery from Hulu’s series ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ And with this past week’s news out of Texas, with a law there literally putting bounties on the heads of people facilitating abortion procedures, the memes featuring women in red robes were ubiquitous as comparisons were made between the Lone Star state and the theocracy of Gilead portrayed in the series. Continue reading Why Scientology celebrity Elisabeth Moss is problematic as an icon of reproductive rights
It’s Labor Day here in the United States, when we celebrate the struggle by brave workers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to bring us such things as the weekend. Continue reading On this Labor Day, some insane stories of labor in Scientology’s ‘Sea Org’
In 1950, a well known writer for the pulps, L. Ron Hubbard, announced that he had figured out the meaning of existence. In his book published that year, Dianetics, he revealed that the thing propelling all life was the compulsion to survive. Continue reading Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 1: Shattering the suppression from a 15-year-old
We got a big reaction to our piece on Monday about the Scientology affiliate, Mace-Kingsley in Clearwater, Florida, that targets infants and toddlers for their first experiences of a lifetime of L. Ron Hubbard dedication. Continue reading Liz Gale: The Scientology auditing of kids at Mace-Kingsley was my childhood
Are you ready, Chicago? Scientology is itching to open its new Ideal Org downtown, which has been delayed because of the pandemic, and a new video sent out yesterday to members suggests that the grand opening is just around the corner. Continue reading VIDEO: Scientology prepares Chicago takeover, will target college student dorms downtown
We’re now coming to the top of Tom Cruise’s superpowers that he’s picked up with his dedication to Scientology for more than 30 years. Continue reading Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 2: Achieving godhood
Our Scientology oversharer is back, and you tell us — has Grade 4 left her a lot less effusive, or is it just us? Continue reading Hot new progress reports from Scientology’s massive world takeover!
We’re continuing to count down Tom Cruise’s abilities and powers after decades in the Church of Scientology, and now we’re reaching the really potent stuff. Continue reading Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 3: Resisting between-life amnesia
[From the MK Facebook page: Get your kid on the cans!]We know our headline today will confuse some of our newer readers. “On the cans” is a reference to holding the sensors of a Scientology “E-meter,” the device that measures skin galvanism and that Scientologists swear can read your thoughts. Continue reading Scientology wants your toddler on the cans, and here’s evidence of it
We’re continuing our countdown of Tom Cruise’s abilities that he would have gained as a high-level Scientologist, and now we need to turn to something rather sinister. Continue reading Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 4: Destroying a planet with the touch of a finger
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