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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: A new #success story has a mother of four gushing about learning to be ‘controlled by a man’ regarding processes we first learned about because Tom Cruise had gone through it himself. And meanwhile, new photos of an impending showdown in England over a giant tent. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology success: ‘I became at peace with being controlled by a man’
[New Republic illustration by Jovana Mugoša]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: She had done Scientology’s dirty work for years, following people the church considered its enemies, and even stealing their trash. But then she had a moment of clarity and changed her mind, and spent the next four years spying on Scientology. Until, that is, they caught her. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading When a Scientology spy becomes a double agent — and then gets burned
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The holidays are still months away, but Scientology is already thinking about how it can get you to spend the big bucks and come to the cruise ship Freewinds for pricey services in the Caribbean over Christmas and New Year’s. Take the survey they just sent out to members! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Take the survey: How can Scientology lure you to its cruise ship for Christmas?
[Alex answers Scientology’s ‘Fair Game’]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Character assassination is how Scientology reacts to questions about its abuses, and for Alex Barnes-Ross it’s coming at him from all sides. He let us into the details of just one operation the ‘church’ threw at him recently, and how he’s managed to turn the tables on them. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology critic obtains documents of church plot against him
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Australian Scientologist Luke Ayers has a slick website where he’s asking 3 grand for photography lessons. Is that a fair price? We don’t know. But we were thrilled to see Ayers again as an excuse to post once again one of our favorite Scientology rap videos of all time! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading GOLD RUSH: Another Scientology youngster asks thousands for online course
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 pointed out numerous times that Scientology has slowed lawsuits by filing appeals of preliminary matters, and asking for filing extensions. Well, this week Leah Remini apparently decided that she’d had enough of her lawsuit being slow-rolled by David Miscavige. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Fed up with Scientology’s court delays, Leah Remini puts her foot down
[Masterson and his current digs]
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 we brought you the California AG’s 42K-word response to Danny Masterson’s criminal appeal. Masterson is serving 30 years-to-life and he’s trying to walk out of prison with his appeal, but we asked an appellate attorney to give his assessment of the AG’s response. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Expert: Why the state’s response is likely to kill Danny Masterson’s criminal appeal
[Hubbard and Riefenstahl (Illustration by The Daily Beast)]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: 4 years ago for The Daily Beast we dove into a little-known 1960 collaboration in London between L. Ron Hubbard and Leni Riefenstahl. Later that year, Ron wanted Leni to join him on a bold new film project: Bur what was it that was too much even for Hitler’s favorite filmmaker? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Ron and Leni: The project that was just too much for Hitler’s favorite filmmaker
 <[Ron has a Bridge to sell you] 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 has diminished the church’s drug rehab network, Narconon, in the face of so many lawsuits in the US. But at one time, Narconon was going to take over the world, which Patty Moher reminds us in this terrific story of her time running a clinic. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]
Continue reading What it was like to run a Scientology drug rehab in Narconon’s heyday
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