The Hubbard tapes: When Scientology was all about reeling you in

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Val Ross has another memory from her remarkable experience in Scientology, much of which is quite dark. But this time, she says, she wanted to give us a chuckle. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology party tents move from Clearwater to Los Angeles

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last week Scientology threw a 3-day beach party in Clearwater, Florida. The timing suggested it might be some kind of ‘Sea Org Day’ celebration. Now, a reader in LA has sent photos showing similar tents and inflatables appeared there yesterday. What gives, Dave? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology school loses crucial ability to host foreign students after inspection

[Greenfields and its head teacher, Andrew Hodgson]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Thanks to an increased awareness of Scientology’s controversies, the UK government is taking a harder look at the organization and in particular its boarding school there. Now, in a stunning blow to the school, the government has withdrawn its ability to host foreign students. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Danny Masterson victims argue again for adding racketeering in Scientology lawsuit

[Judge Upinder Kalra and defendant Danny Masterson]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s victims hit a snag as Scientology appealed a ruling by Judge Upinder Kalra. But this week the Jane Does argued again that other important matters should be moving forward: Namely, adding civil racketeering counts against the church. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Alex Barnes-Ross on his win for East Grinstead records regarding Scientology

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Alex Barnes-Ross reported yesterday that a UK commission instructed the East Grinstead Council it would have to turn over records regarding Scientology he had been asking for. We asked him why the Council was holding back these records, and what he expects to get his hands on! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Swimming against Scientology’s rip current: Lessons learned the hard way

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Val Ross has enlightened us with tales of her career as a Scientology spy and victim of domestic violence. We’re so glad she has another memory to share with us about her days in this controlling, absurd organization. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology’s beach party goes into a third day in Clearwater

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Scientology party at Sand Key Park in Clearwater that started on Saturday continued into its third day yesterday, and we’ve been checking with experts about what it could be all about. ALSO: Doctors helping Scientology named and shamed in Canada. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology’s greatest ever justification for its expensive TV channel is here

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: If you’ve ever tried to view Scientology TV, you know it’s unwatchable propaganda. But David Miscavige has to prove it’s been worth the millions to produce all that wretched content. So now, the best story of ‘how Scientology TV actually recruited a sucker’ is here! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Ready for OT superpowers, pilgrim? Scientology is waiting for you to come aboard!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A reader has sent us a complete new marketing pitch designed to get Scientology members out to the ship Freewinds so they can gain superhuman OT abilities in an adventurous setting. Avast there, pilgrim! Does this new flier get you excited to haul your thetan down to the dock? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Some recent cases remind us that Scientology tactics are all around us

[It’s a world of grift and we just live in it]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Readers often send us stories that only tangentially relate to Scientology or evoke Scientology’s well-known tactics. We wonder: Is it that Scientology’s thuggish ways are really spreading, or was Scientology always reflecting the grifting habits of the cruel reality we live in? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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