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How to ‘declare’ and shame an enemy of the church: The Scientology checklist!

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 have often discussed Scientology’s practice of ‘declaring’ someone a ‘suppressive person,’ the church’s way of labeling an enemy. But how, exactly, are declares put together? What a lot of work they turn out to be, according to this previously unpublished checklist! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Grant Cardone’s chief exec on why this is Scientology’s moment

 
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: Sheri Hamilton has been the COO of Grant Cardone’s ’10X’ enterprise since 2011, and like him is a dedicated Scientology donor. We thought the timing was interesting for her to make this passionate pitch about forking over your money for the church’s building projects. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology wants to know, can you spare a dime for Ron’s new museum?

[Will Ron ever get his new home?]

 
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: Scientology has been raising money seemingly forever for ‘L. Ron Hubbard Hall,’ a huge venue in Clearwater, Florida that we assume will someday become the location for maybe all of the organization’s big events. But a new fundraising pitch also suggests it might be even more. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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An appellate attorney looks at Scientology’s slam on Leah Remini’s lawsuit

 
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: Yesterday we posted the appeal brief that Scientology submitted in Leah Remini’s lawsuit. We found the document repulsive. But could it be effective as a legal instrument? For some help on that, we turned once again to an appellate attorney who is familiar with this litigation. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Who’s the mystery Mexican donor of $4 million to Scientology?

 
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What Trump and Elon are actually going to find locked up in Fort Knox

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: President Trump created a stir about checking on the gold at Fort Knox. For us it was a fun echo with a movie based on an L. Ron Hubbard novel, at a time when we’ve been detailing numerous connections between the White House and Hubbard’s other famous creation: Scientology [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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When the government comes down hard on Scientology grifters

[Peyroux, left, and Detelich]

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: With all of the alarming news here at the Bunker recently about wealthy Scientology donors getting chummy with the new White House administration, we thought we’d provide a counterexample, a harsh government crackdown on Scientologists pushing bogus “stem cell” cures. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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This isn’t like Scientology, to be late on a chance to smear Leah Remini, right?

[Scientology leader David Miscavige and Leah Remini]

 
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: It’s been awfully quiet in Leah Remini’s lawsuit against Scientology, which she filed in 2023. And then we noticed something unusual, that church leader David Miscavige is late on an opportunity to smear Leah in appeals court. What gives, Dave? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Here it is, Scientology’s secret plan to end psychiatry as we know it

[Scientology’s Captain David Miscavige in 2006]

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 the press has a way of tiptoeing around it, it’s long been obvious that Scientology, under David Miscavige, constantly wages a coordinated war against the psychiatric profession. It’s another thing, however, to get that assumption confirmed in black and white. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology’s David Miscavige may be coming to party in your town soon!

[David Miscavige at his last (actual) grand opening, in Chicago]

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: Last year saw Scientology open four new ‘Ideal Orgs’ by April, but nothing since then. Now we have evidence that two more may be very close to their grand openings. You know what that means: Dave will be coming out of his hidey hole to cut a big ribbon and shoot off some confetti! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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