Leah Remini wants an injunction to muzzle Scientology, and now we have the church’s reply

[Leah Remini and Scientology attorney William Forman]

We told you that on Friday, Judge Randolph Hammock told both sides in Leah Remini’s lawsuit against the Church of Scientology to stop burying him in filings ahead of what is now an important January 16 hearing.

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English councillors squirm over question about Scientology abuses

Yesterday, Alexander “Apostate Alex” Barnes-Ross attended (virtually) a meeting of the East Grinstead Town Council, the city where Scientology maintains its UK Headquarters at Saint Hill. Alex spoke up during the period for public questions, and then sent us this account of how it all went down…

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Have you made your Scientology ‘postulates’ for the new year, space cadet?

The Scientology propaganda just keeps coming, and we usually get a kick out of it. Scientology’s messages aimed at its members helps us keep up on what’s going on inside the secretive organization, and it also gives us a glimpse of how this dwindling organization is keeping the lights on.

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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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