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And now, a message from Leah Remini about the March 11 special comedy fundraising event for the Michael J. Rinder Aftermath Foundation… Leaving Scientology and the Sea Organization is not like leaving a real religion. When someone escapes or attempts to escape, they don’t just lose their...

[Jason Lee returned to acting last year in Netflix series The Residence] Thank you to the reader who brought our attention to the great profile of former skateboard pro, sometimes actor, and former Eagle Rock photography shop owner Jason Lee at Defector by writer Nate Rogers. Rogers does a...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: The new OT Phenomena are here! Our regular readers know that we have been highly critical of what was once one of the most popular things Scientology published, its monthly stories about what its “OT” members were able to accomplish with their hard-won super...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Ron and Sara] Seventy-five years ago today, readers of the Los Angeles Examiner found a very odd story waiting for them on page five of their daily paper. Here, give it a look. What would your reaction be, do you think, if you were at home getting ready for work...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Just a few days ago, we highlighted Scientology’s focus on the children of existing members as one of the few areas where it has any recruiting success. Here’s another example, 17-year-old Jazelle extolling the virtues of getting trained as an auditor at...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Wow, that was fast. Scientology posted its slide show last night after Sunday’s “Ideal Org” grand opening in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was the usual thing, with church leader David Miscavige presiding, and we were curious who else he managed to corral for the event...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Some images and videos have begun popping up on social media after yesterday’s grand opening of Scientology’s new “Ideal Org” in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and thank you to numerous helpers who brought them to our attention. And yes, Scientology leader David Miscavige...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Was it the newts? The bats? The water main? We’re not sure which of the many objections raised to Scientology’s plans for a new car park at the church’s UK headquarters broke the camel’s back, but apparently it’s just all too much for church leader David Miscavige...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: This story was first published at The Phoenix New Times on April 8, 1999. It was a rare chance for us to go out of town with some musicians we admired and that we surely miss today. (Lawrence Zubia died in 2020.) We decided to find room for this story here at our...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Boies Schiller partner John Kucera] On March 3, the public will get a chance to watch as the civil lawsuit filed by Danny Masterson’s victims has an oral arguments hearing at the 2nd Appellate District court in Los Angeles, which plans to stream it online. At issue...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: During a week when we’ve been taking a closer look at the connections between wealthy Scientologists and the White House, what timing for this new photograph to appear. (And thank you to Alex Barnes-Ross for spotting it.) OT Scientologist and marketer Manuel Suarez...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We’re grateful that Joy Villa shared quite a bombshell with us this week. In regards to a claim by political commentator Candace Owens that one of the “bigger donors” of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA was a Scientologist, Joy told us that she believed Owens was...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We continue to see evidence that Scientology is struggling. It’s struggling to recruit new members, struggling to staff its facilities, and struggling to keep local orgs open regular hours. Evidence we’ve presented here recently — “completions” out of the Ventura...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Evan Dando on vacation in Brazil] Last Thursday, we let our readers know that we were diverting from our usual focus on Scientology in order to help out a member of the Underground Bunker community who said he needed our assistance. His wife, a woman we have decided...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Candace Owens, Charlie and Erika Kirk] Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September, political commentator Candace Owens, who used to work for Kirk’s Turning Point USA, has been promoting conspiracy theories about his death, creating a rift between Owens and...

This is very easily watchable using a VPN. Well worth the effort.

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Alex Barnes-Ross] It’s always interesting to see a major media organization take on the subject of Scientology, and put in so much effort and care as was obvious in the documentary that aired last night in France. Filmmaker Romain Icard assembled some of the most...

https://tonyortega.substack.com/p/david-miscavige-will-open-a-new-scientology Some interesting FREEWIND photos

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: There’s even more bad news for Scientology when it comes to its expansion plans for its UK headquarters, Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, England. You know the backstory: Former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross discovered that Scientology had failed to seek...

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