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TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Some of the stories you’ve been seeing over the last couple of days about Chuck Lorre’s memoir Sitcom not only mention that he dishes on his ten years in Scientology, but also that his Scientology past had first been made public in 2019. Hey, that’s a reference to us...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Alex Barnes-Ross let us know that a new Scientology price list showed up at Reddit, a pamphlet with prices for Scientologists going to the church’s floating Caribbean cathedral, the Freewinds. (On the back, the price list carries a 2025 date, so it’s pretty recent.)...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: With a new Alex Gibney documentary in select theaters, you’ll forgive us for waxing nostalgic about our own Gibney experience and thinking back to Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. That HBO...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Friday evening the Save the Garden movement announced that its signatures had been certified by the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections, which should force the city of Clearwater to reconsider its decision to give South Garden Avenue to the Church of Scientology...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We want to thank the reader who pointed out something to us that could be seen at the September 28 Los Angeles premiere of Digger, with Tom Cruise in attendance. Cruise stopped to sign autographs for fans, and in various video clips, you can see a red-headed woman...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Once again, we want to put on the record just how tight Tom Cruise remains with Scientology, if only to prepare for the inevitable tabloid stories that show up about every six months claiming that he’s drifting away from it. We have been sharing with you some of the...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Cruise and a past mayor; Alex confronts the town council] Former London Scientology staffer Alex Barnes-Ross continues his relentless campaign to raise awareness about the organization’s controversies in the UK, and he continues to have success with media and even...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We love a good Scientology hype video, and we have a couple of them for you today as staffers do their best to get the beleaguered rank and file to drop everything and quickly make plans to come to England for the IAS gala on October 23. Alex Barnes-Ross is making his...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We go way back with John P. Coale. We first wrote about his deep involvement (along with his wife, TV journalist Greta Van Susteren) in Scientology’s “Operating Thetan” levels back in 2015. We thought it was pretty wild that Coale and Van Susteren had both completed OT...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Scientologists have a little more than two weeks to prepare their travel to the UK now that the church has revealed the date of its annual International Association of Scientologists (IAS) anniversary gala, to be held October 23-25. The event takes place in a giant...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Scientology is boasting on social media that it scored a major celebrity endorsement recently, and it’s such a rare occurrence, you can understand the church’s excitement. In a few days, Scientology TV is going to begin showing a new special about longtime celebrity...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: On Friday, we posted a review of Tom Cruise’s new film Digger written by our friend, longtime film critic Luke Y. Thompson. That was how we learned that reviewers had been asked to keep some big surprises in the movie from audiences. We knew from the movie’s trailer that...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Clearwater, Florida’s city council voted 3-2 on Thursday night to vacate the right-of-way of additional streets, this time for parking for an entertainment complex that is associated with the Church of Scientology. This decision was less controversial than the...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Once again, we’re privileged to have a review from our longtime friend and film critic, Luke Y. Thompson. Digger opens wide in theaters today. Welp, Tom Cruise has finally made his most interesting movie in a long time with Digger, and given that Top Gun 3 and Days...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: In July, we told you that a new notice from Scientology indicated that some sucker had been convinced to pay for a “mission package” so a new unneeded outlet could be opened, this time in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sure, Tulsa’s a hot-bed for space cadets who can’t wait to explore...