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Scientology puts off racketeering charges by appealing ruling in Masterson victims’ lawsuit

[Defendant David Miscavige and Judge Upinder Kalra]

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Ready to sign your life away, pilgrim? Get a load of this Scientology staff contract

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve seen numerous examples of Scientology employment contracts and pledges over the years. But we think this might be what new staff members are signing today as they dedicate themselves to a religion that spells out it won’t have to pay them a dime. Scary. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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For Memorial Day 2024: Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s bogus war injuries

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As on past Memorial Days, we think it’s important to remind readers about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘stolen valor.’ Historian Chris Owen looks at Hubbard’s claims about being injured in war versus the actual record. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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TikTok battle between exes captivates the country — and has a Scientology angle?

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve seen numerous examples of Scientology employment contracts and pledges over the years. But we think it might be what new staff members are signing today as they dedicate themselves to a religion that spells out it won’t have to pay them a dime. Scary. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology thinks it’s caught a reporter in a scandal. Has it?

[Salacious illo from the Stand League article]

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 pretty unique in the way it openly attacks reporters with smeary broadsides supposedly written by concerned individual Scientologists. Recently, the church redoubled its attack on a journalist it said was caught in a scandal, and we decided to look more closely. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology has perfect metaphor for their operation in industrial wasteland

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: After our last discussion with Valerie Haney, we still can’t believe that Scientology is getting away with abusing her once again under the excuse of ‘religious arbitration,’ tucked away in a sea of warehouses. And the church this week celebrated how it’s getting away with it [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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The mostly forgotten ship that started one of the biggest Scientology legal cases of all time

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Less well known than its counterparts, the Scientology training ship the Bolivar was where everything began to go wrong with maybe the most well-known Scientologist who ever ended up suing L. Ron Hubbard’s outfit. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Riley Keough’s bizarre fight to keep Graceland from being auctioned off

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We figure you’ve seen some of the same stories we have about the strange situation in Memphis: Riley Keough, daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis Presley, is fighting to keep from having her grandfather’s iconic home Graceland sold off in an auction. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Another ‘Tom Cruise leaving Scientology’ squawk from the tabs, and the weakest ever

[Tom Cruise, barnstorming England and forsaking Los Angeles, or something]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last August the Daily Mail claimed Tom Cruise was leaving #Scientology because he hadn’t been showing up in East Grinstead, England. Now InTouch Weekly is saying that Tom Cruise is leaving Scientology because he’s not showing up in Los Angeles. Oh, brother. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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New Scientology memoir out today: For years he led its rabid anti-psychiatry angle

[Cuch Figueroa, busting the psychs]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What sets apart Cuch Figueroa’s memoir, out today, is that it gives us some of the clearest storytelling about what it was like to run one of #Scientology’s rabid anti-psychiatry branches, and the extreme fundraising that went with it. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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