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[Dave’s circus, 2018]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: More bad news for Scientology as it waits to see whether it will get permission for a car park it wants to build and also its giant tent that it puts up every year for its IAS gala. Alex Barnes-Ross alerted us to this latest stumbling block, and shared his thoughts with us. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology strikes out again as another local authority says no to tent plans
[Wenner and Hunter S. Thompson in 1996]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology was in a panic: It was 2005, and they knew that Rolling Stone was digging into a story. What to do? They had Tom Cruise call Jann Wenner and ask him to talk to Mike Rinder. When Wenner called, Scientology was taping, and now we have the transcript. It’s fascinating. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading When Scientology tried to sway coverage with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It was just last October that Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous ‘From Here to the Great Unknown’ came out and we checked it for mentions of Scientology. Now, her mother Priscilla has a new memoir, and we go over its mentions of Scientology, which contain some surprising errors. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Fact-checking the Scientology mentions in Priscilla Presley’s new memoir
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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: The showdown going on between Scientology and local politicians over its big tent for an annual gala in the UK heated up even more as a local town council threw its refusal of the church’s plans into the mix. Alex Barnes-Ross updates us things are looking dicier by the minute! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Surprise! Scientology gets a no from local council as showdown over big tent looms
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Sunday, we reported the shocking news that Scientology had caught the attorneys for the Danny Masterson victims using bogus AI-generated case citations in in the ‘Bixler’ civil lawsuit. We asked appellate attorney TX Lawyer for his thoughts on just how bad this situation is. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading How bad is the AI blunder by attorneys opposing Scientology in the Masterson civil case?
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology, through its most unhinged front group, CCHR, has roped in another politician, this time in Florida, to forward a bill that advances Scientology’s anti-psychiatry agenda. But the church itself spelled out those goals in a secret document we can show you now. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading What politicians need to know about Scientology’s anti-psychiatry agenda
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Just what the Danny Masterson victims did NOT need. Their attorneys at prestigious Boies Schiller Flexner have admitted their ’embarrassing’ mistake after Scientology caught them including bogus AI-generated citations in an appeal briefing. Will the court accept a do-over? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology catches Masterson victim attorneys with AI-fudged citations in court filing
[Nancy Cartwright with last year’s charity recipients]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 rolling the dice, waiting until the last minute to apply for big changes at its UK headquarters ahead of a major annual event usually attended by Tom Cruise. And to make sure it succeeds, they’ve lined up various shills to make it sound like the best thing ever. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s shills line up to sing its praises for crucial planning application
[Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector wants the city to think big]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Clearwater’s city council doesn’t want Scientology’s richest donor putting a branch of her existing Tampa Bay glass art museum in their library, so they decided this week to try again for a better tenant. And former vice mayor Mark ‘Wise Beard Man’ Bunker has a suggestion! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Clearwater council not into Scientology donor’s glass art, will try again
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As a Scientology OT 8, mega-donor Tom Cummins can resist invader forces trying to erase his memory during his ‘between-lives’ period, and will remember who he is when he starts out his next lifetime. But what about his stacks of cash? It turns out he’s thought deeply about that! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology mega-donor Tom Cummins: How can a deathless thetan make a will?
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