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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last night Clearwater’s city council once again took up the subject of Scientology’s domination of its downtown, and Mark Bunker made the scene. He broke down the latest issues facing the city in a conversation we had last night after he got home. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Mark Bunker: Clearwater council argues about Florida AG siding with Scientology

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 been disappointed by academic types in the past, so it’s really refreshing to see an academic journal take a serious swipe at Scientology and its arbitration scheme, which has been used to derail several lawsuits brought by former church members. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology ‘arbitration’ ripped apart by trafficking experts in law journal
 [Ingram and his son Rex]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: For Scientology watchers, former LAPD cop Eugene Ingram is a legendary figure. For 30 years he was the chief operator in the church’s retaliation schemes. Nearly a decade ago we tracked him down in retirement. But now it’s his son who is causing chaos, and in a surprising place. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s most notorious dirty PI, and the chaos caused by his cop son

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: While Scientology leader David Miscavige’s effort to take control of a short street near the Flag Building in downtown Clearwater, Florida has been temporarily foiled, that doesn’t mean that his plan for making Clearwater the first ‘Scientology City’ isn’t still on his mind. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology is still buying up properties to create its Florida ‘Vatican’

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It’s Father’s Day 2025 here in the US, but for many Scientology families, it’s only a reminder that church leader David Miscavige sadistically rips apart families for political leverage. Geoff Levin tells us what this day means for him. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading When Father’s Day 2025 reminds you that Scientology ripped apart your family
 [Alex Barnes-Ross and Scientology’s Janet Laveau actually agreed on something!]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Big news from Alex Barnes-Ross this morning as he shares with us a document that lays out a code of conduct for both protesters and Scientology which should head off the church’s request for a draconian legal ban on demonstrations outside its UK headquarters, Saint Hill Manor. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology request for draconian law avoided, accord with protesters reached

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology’s new Impact magazine reassures Scientologists that its big international media push this year has had a major result. After leader David Miscavige spent untold sums for ads in dozens of countries, some people actually did respond! You have to read what they said. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology gushes about the inroads made by its new media strategy!

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
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