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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: We continue the history of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as it played out 75 years ago, and that the church hides from its members today. This time, Hubbard finally told his 2nd wife where he had absconded with their baby in a bizarre 1951 letter you have to see. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s year from hell: His bizarre letter from Cuba
[Dave at the 2025 IAS gala]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology leader David Miscavige today marks 66 years on the planet. Will he have a party, with cake? We wonder. As for the Underground Bunker, we’ve turned again to the real experts for their thoughts on this occasion, and we asked them for their birthday greetings! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology leader David Miscavige is 66 today, and we have presents!
[Dave is working the lines in England and Florida]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Things are heating up on both sides of the Atlantic as David Miscavige tries to arm-wrestle a couple of cities important to Scientology’s fortunes. Alex Barnes-Ross was at a planning meeting in England, and Mark Bunker visited the new showroom in Clearwater. We hear from both! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology gets biased boost in East Grinstead, submits new plans 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: It’s been obvious for several years that Scientology leader David Miscavige was dealing with lagging recruitment by convincing wealthy donors to give more, and to spend that money on buildings. And this year, Dave seems to have picked up the pace. Here’s the latest. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s new building spree: Real expansion, or more baubles to impress donors?
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In February, we learned that Nancy Cartwright, the Cardones, and Tom Cummins made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago. And now, in the latest mission of ‘safe-pointing,’ a minor Scientology celebrity made her way there for a black-tie event and schmoozed with the Secret Service! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading More Scientology safe-pointing at Mar-a-Lago, this time with Kerri Kasem
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: News stories report that Scientology paid $16 million for the Mama Shelter hotel in Hollywood and its well known rooftop bar, which closed in 2025. What those stories left out: Scientology owned the place as a gritty 1970s Sea Org berth. Spanky Taylor tells us about it! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology buys distressed Hollywood hotel it used to own in the 1970s
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology opens its newest shrine to founder L. Ron Hubbard today with a Canary Islands villa where he wrote the Xenu story in ’67. But Hana Whitfield tells us she visited Hubbard there, and it looked nothing like the ‘restoration’! ALSO: Another Clearwater grand opening today! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Hana Whitfield remembers the Xenu villa — and it didn’t look like Scientology’s new shrine!
[Valeska, the Atrium, and Scientology attorneys Jeffrey Steinfeld and Charles Harris]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As we predicted, Scientology has responded to allegations that its ‘religious arbitration’ is a sham by telling a federal court judge that he can’t intervene in a religious matter, and that the victims in a labor trafficking lawsuit are lying anyway. We have the details. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology blasts Valeska Paris and the Baxters in response to arbitration criticisms
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology doesn’t tell you these things about its founder, so we happily fill in that role: In February, we marked the 75th anniversary of L. Ron Hubbard’s bizarre kidnapping of his 2nd wife, Sara Northrup. Two months later, it was Sara’s turn to exact some revenge. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading 75 years ago today: Sara Northrup’s epic divorce of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
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 telling you about Scientology’s big new initiative aimed at kids, and more keeps reaching us about how it’s going. A new item suggests that Scientology parents are under a lot of pressure to get in gear with this creepy new vibe. ALSO: Chris Shelton’s new book is out! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Parents, Scientology is targeting your tweens!
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