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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, or go to this link: We love Scientology hype videos, so it’s kind of a thrill to get a copy of this new promotion, which tries to convince Scientologists to come to LA and to go OT. Los Angeles! Hollywood! Movie Stars! And Scientology! How could anyone resist? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s new hype video will get you stoked to go OT!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: We’ve been telling you lately about the surprising connections between the second Trump administration and high-level Scientology donors. But as an old Tom Cruise interview goes viral, could the church’s longtime goals against psychiatry and ‘psych meds’ also get a boost? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology in the time of Trumpism: Tom Cruise getting rehabbed by the right?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Cece was a former Scientology employee who spent more than 20 years at AOLA until she was kicked out in a bizarre incident, but we knew her as a free spirit who spent her later years on the road, and reporting back to us from desert campgrounds and other beautiful places. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Cecilia Kruchko-Smith, 1952-2025, former Scientology employee, beloved Bunkerite

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Dianetics turns 75 this year, and Scientology leader David Miscavige turns 65 in April. But the number the church tends to tout is how many ‘Ideal Orgs’ it has opened since 2003. And in a year with such big anniversaries, it seems like the Ideal Org program is stalled again. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Where is Scientology’s next ‘Ideal Org’? Some news from down south.

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: The pandemic was hard on Scientology’s aging cruise ship the Freewinds. And we wondered about the seaworthiness of this expensive floating cathedral. Well, a new flier suggests the old barge is gamely sailing into the future, and that it has pretty much returned to its old ways! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s floating cathedral is back in a big way, pilgrims!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: A hearing is scheduled today in Valerie Haney’s lawsuit against Scientology, the one she filed nearly six years ago. In that period, she’s endured shockingly abusive behavior by the courts and by her former church. But is her legal odyssey all coming to an end today? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading With Valerie Haney’s Scientology ‘arbitration’ unfinished, is her lawsuit on the brink?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Rebecca Minkoff walked away from Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives of New York’ after a less-than-stellar run as a ‘friend’ of the cast in the show’s 15th season, but it looks like she’s bouncing back by returning to what she knows so well… Promoting Scientology’s sneaky front groups! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading After RHONY, Rebecca Minkoff back to promoting Scientology’s sneaky front groups

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Although plenty of evidence suggests that Scientology is struggling to staff its facilities as it dwindles in general, it does still manage to rope in a few suckers — er, new hopefuls who believe that they’re helping to clear the planet. And look at this new catch in Orlando! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology staff scores with a new all-star: Pro dunker Connor Barth!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox, or go to this link: Earlier this week we told you about OT Scientologists at the Kennedy Center and in the Ukraine talks, and now we have to bring up the involvement of Scientology and its anti-psychiatry goals in regards to the country’s highest health official, the newly confirmed RFK Jr. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading RFK Jr.’s ties to Scientology’s sordid past, and his unity on its goals today

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We understand why Scientology-watchers would be thrilled to see the church taken to court over anything at all. But we thought it was worth a closer look at this proposed class-action, since it seemed to come out of nowhere and says almost nothing about Scientology itself. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology hit with cookie-cutter lawsuit about sharing data with Facebook
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