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Cathy’s cruel ‘arbitration’: Can this denunciation finally upend Scientology’s star chamber?

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The victims in Scientology’s farcical ‘arbitration’ in a federal trafficking case have something that really seems impressive: a declaration from the country’s foremost expert on what arbitration is actually supposed to be. Could this be what finally convinces a judge to do something? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Gawain and Laura Baxter detail Scientology’s unprofessional Clearwater ‘arbitration’

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Valeska Paris and Gawain and Laura Baxter went through 15 days of Scientology ‘religious arbitration’ in Clearwater before walking out. They are now asking a court to intervene, saying it was a sham proceeding. Today, we have the declarations by the Baxters about their ordeal. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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The Expert: Full affidavit by psychologist called to Scientology’s Clearwater arbitration

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday we began to learn what’s been going on in the Scientology labor-trafficking lawsuit in Florida. Although she was only in the proceeding for a single day, a psychologist has stark observations about the so-called ‘arbitration.’ Here is her court declaration in full. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Judge unseals testimony describing farcical Scientology arbitration in trafficking case

[Remember Cathy Fraser from Louis Theroux’s ‘My Scientology Movie’?]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: A Tampa court has ruled it would not allow a new motion in a Scientology labor trafficking case to be filed under seal, and so a huge volume of information suddenly became public about the farcical 15-day arbitration that has been going on behind closed doors. We have it all! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology complains victims bailed after 15 days of arbitration in labor-trafficking case

[Valeska Paris, the Fort Harrison, and Scientology attorney Charles M. Harris Jr.]

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Wow! More detail has now emerged about the ‘religious arbitration’ that Scientology labor-trafficking victims were forced into by a Tampa federal court. After 15 days, the victims simply stopped showing up, and are now asking the court to intervene. We have the documents! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Tom Cruise and John Travolta cheered Miscavige: Why doesn’t he want the public to know?

[Megadonors Alan Atkinson-Baker and Craig Jensen in the foreground, then Doug E. Fresh, Bodhi and Jenna Elfman, Travolta, an unidentified woman, Cruise, and megadonor Trish Duggan]

 
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 found a photo from Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event that showed Tom Cruise and John Travolta cheering David Miscavige. But in other more prominent photos, they were missing. Why doesn’t Dave want the world to know they were there? We asked an expert. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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First results of Scientology’s creepy new focus on kids starting to come in

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We saw Tom Cruise and John Travolta give church leader David Miscavige a standing ovation the night he revealed Scientology’s new focus on children. And now, it’s the kids’ turn. The success stories are starting to come in as children share their ‘wins and gains.’ [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology grooming kids: Excitement as the new books actually begin to arrive

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The new Scientology books aimed at grooming kids as young as 7 for a life of L. Ron Hubbard thinking have actually started to arrive now, and we know this because of a photo that features a notorious figure in aiming to get kids into the fold. ALSO: The HowdyCon agenda! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology restores the villa where Ron dreamed up Xenu? Jon Atack has thoughts.

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of the surprises of the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday was Scientology leader David Miscavige announcing another shrine: The villa in Las Palmas where Ron dreamed up the Xenu story! That seemed a bit outré, so we turned to historian Jon Atack for his thoughts about it. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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Scientology’s big donors wining and dining Cesar Millan? What’s up with that?

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Ian Rafalko recently sent us images showing some of Scientology’s biggest donors hanging out with Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer. Ian wondered if they were trying to get in with the longtime TV star. Well, we told him, we have a story about that which we have never told! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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