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Judge is fed up with sniping between legal teams for Scientology and Leah Remini

[Leah Remini and Judge Randolph Hammock]

We’ve been telling you how after Leah Remini filed her August 2 lawsuit against Scientology for what she says is a yearslong campaign of harassment, Scientology hit back with a motion to strike much of the lawsuit’s material.

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PODCAST: Remembering Andreas Heldal-Lund with Tory Christman

In August 2022, we talked to Andreas Heldal-Lund about his diagnosis with terminal cancer, and the brave way he was facing the end of his life. So his death this week was something we had sadly been anticipating, but it hit us hard nonetheless.

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Check out the Scientology propaganda handed out at Saint Hill on New Year’s Eve!

 
We’ve paid considerable attention to David Miscavige’s November appearances at the IAS gala in England and the taping he made of the New Year’s event on December 16 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

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Here’s our story about big 2023 donors Scientology doesn’t want you to see

 
Here we go again!

Substack has taken down one of our entire posts (published December 24) reporting on legitimate news about Scientology after the church complained about the use of their images, and Substack did it without even giving us the opportunity to remove the images before taking down the story as a whole.

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Andreas Heldal-Lund, 1964-2024: Our original story about Scientology’s ‘Lucifer’

[Andreas Heldal-Lund and Tory Christman, in Toronto in 2015]

In August 2022, we talked to Andreas Heldal-Lund about his diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, and we expressed how much admiration we had for this man of conviction. As ever, he was facing things with humility and wonder, and our esteem for him grew even greater.

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Ooh la la! Scientology is bursting about its soon-to-open Paris cathouse

Last month we brought you the news from Scientology’s Impact magazine that reported on the whales and their new trophies — the big donors who were feted on November 4 at that IAS Patrons Ball in all of their black-tie glory.

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It was a conversation about Scientology she’d wanted to have forever. And then it happened.

[Tammy Synovec]

It was an encounter she had hoped might happen some day, and she had even played it out in her mind, over and over.

And then, suddenly, it happened.

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Scientology’s 2023: Another year is in the books at the Underground Bunker!

Was this the busiest year ever at the Underground Bunker? Sure felt like it. And the stories are still coming, even on a weekend like this.

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How Scientology just doubled-down on its Leah Remini ‘blood on your hands’ lie

[Left: The website Scientology claims inspired a killing in Australia]

On December 6, we told you about some stunning new court documents that Leah Remini’s legal team filed in her lawsuit against the Church of Scientology.

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Do Scientologists celebrate Christmas? Well, the London org sure did.

 
We’ve pointed out numerous times that Scientology has a problematic relationship with Christmas, but in the end, it’s a secular holiday and whatever the reason for your season, have at it.

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