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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: We talked yesterday with a Georgia man named Justin Aamir Adkins. On Monday, he filed a federal lawsuit against Scientology for racial discrimination. But it’s not a work dispute, and it involves convicted fraudster David Gentile. Wow, did we have a lot of questions. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Former staffer sues Scientology for racial discrimination
 [Ron and Sara’s 1951 court fight attracted attention from his first wife] TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What they don’t tell you in Scientology: When founder L. Ron Hubbard’s legal battle with his second wife blew up 75 years ago this summer, it attracted the attention of his first wife, and his bigamy finally started to catch up with him. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s year from hell: Ron’s bigamy begins to catch up with him

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Building an auditorium named after founder L. Ron Hubbard is a major step to Scientology completing its own Vatican City. And leader David Miscavige put on a lavish display Saturday that left no doubt what it represented: Clearwater, Florida’s utter surrender. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology claims 7,000 witnessed Saturday’s groundbreaking for L. Ron Hubbard Hall

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Ever since we posted a photo of Tom Cruise and John Travolta giving David Miscavige a standing ovation as the Scientology leader unveiled a new initiative aimed at kids, we’ve been curious about what’s in these new books. Now we have a peek inside for you. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s new initiative for kids: A peek inside

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Saturday in Clearwater, Scientology’s David Miscavige held a ground-breaking for the church’s future auditorium, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, and put the exclamation point on the city’s capitulation to him. We have some initial images, and Mark Bunker gives us his thoughts. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s David Miscavige holds ground-breaking in Clearwater with mockup of Hall

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yes! It’s another class of Scientology super beings who have reached OT 8, the top of the ‘Bridge to Total Freedom.’ According to founder L. Ron Hubbard these folks should be able to crush a planet between thumb and forefinger! Recognize any of these geniuses? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology unleashes another phalanx of super beings to rescue this planet!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As Scientology leader David Miscavige prepares to break ground in Clearwater tonight, his push for more empty cathedrals continues. We consider evidence of multiple new ‘Ideal Org’ projects coming in various parts of the world. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Seeing double: Two new Ideal Orgs coming for Scientology at the same time?
 [Where’s the love for Ron?] TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It’s always a treat when Scientology reveals the actual numbers behind its ‘expansion.’ And today, we have an amazing leak of just how poorly things are really going, thanks to our friend Alex Barnes-Ross! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology reveals its own sad state: Making five OTs a week, worldwide

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Media coverage of Suri Noelle’s name change has been a frenzy over the last couple of days. We just wanted to emphasize something that tends to get lost when these stories review Scientology rules about Tom Cruise cutting his own daughter out of his life. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Why the news about Tom Cruise and daughter Suri is even worse than the media lets on
 [Dave threw Danny a lifeline with Scientology’s amicus] 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 brought you Danny Masterson’s entire 26-page brief about the way Scientology was discussed in his trial, which finishes up his appeal. But was it an effective argument? For some help on that, we turned again to our appellate attorney expert, TX Lawyer. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Danny Masterson’s Scientology ‘Hail Mary:’ Good try but probably not enough, says expert
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