Wealthy #Scientologist heading the #AmericaFirst Policy Institute neo con think tank joins #KennedyCenter oversight board alongside #DJT himself and his longtime #TopTwit #DanScavino in apparent #hostiletakeover. Bookings cancelled, staff resignations occur at #DC's heralded #ArtsCulture outpost along #Potomac as tensions and turmoil rankle #arts center.

https://tonyortega.substack.com/p/white-house-names-scientology-mega

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cancellations-resignations-follow-trumps-move-to-reshape-the-kennedy-center-013242134.html

White House names Scientology mega-donor to Kennedy Center board

After announcing Wednesday that he would be the new chairman of the John F.

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Saw that revamped version of #LinkinPark tour tix were on sale with blond female replacement singer after #ChesterBennington's suicide. Then today I read the news that the replacement vocalist comes from the family of a high-ranking #SeaOrg #Scientologist . The new singer #EmilyArmstrong has long floated around #Scientology HQ, supporting #DannyMasterson at his high profile #Hollywood rape trial , and seen posing with #MarsVolta singer #CedricBixler in red carpet shots...

https://substack.com/redirect/16de81e5-e424-49f7-857d-0ec39b8f7c4e

https://tonyortega.substack.com/p/marc-headley-more-scientology-craziness

Emily Armstrong’s tepid response to backlash seems designed to protect Scientology

On Friday, we recounted our reporting regarding Emily Armstrong, the Dead Sara singer who has now been announced as a new addition to Linkin Park as the band returns from a seven-year hiatus following the death of Chester Bennington.

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Just typical #Scientologist tactics. Shocked it took them this long.

#religionruinseverything

#Jurors concerned they were contacted out of court by aggressive attorneys for high profile #Scientologist #Hollywood TV #sitcom star on trial for violent #sexcrimes who eventually was given life in #California #prison.

One #jury member wrote to the court that she had been contacted by defense attorney Shawn Holley. She expressed confusion about whether she could talk to him, and she didn’t understand how Holley had figured out who she was.

The court received an email from another juror. "Some of the #jurors have been visited at their homes by #DannyMasterson's Appeal team. We thought our information was going to be #sealed," the email said, adding, "We are concerned."

https://open.substack.com/pub/tonyortega/p/danny-masterson-jurors-complain-of

Danny Masterson jurors complain of contact by defense team, DA wants hearing for sanctions

The Underground Bunker has learned that Judge Charlaine Olmedo and the LA District Attorney’s Office are both concerned about repeated contacts of the jurors in Danny Masterson’s second trial by members of Masterson’s legal team.

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#ElizabethMoss is the greatest #disappointment of the year: Somebody that talented is a #scientologist ? After the documentary and the book? After the horrific tales of those who managed to sever their ties with the #sect ? I could not believe it. Yet it's true, and it's been poisoning my enjoyinment of her work to the point I had to stop. I'm so sorry for her.

A man who looked not too unlike Enoch Burke approached me and forced a leaflet into my hand at the foot of Nano Nagle bridge in summer 2008. From watching so much Tom Cruise YouTube content I could tell this was an encounter with a #scientologist. The leaflet was for an 'exposé' on psychology in Cork City Hall. I didn't go but two close friends with serious mental health struggles did.

They told me how they recognised folks who they knew to see from their own psych appointments in CUH.

Sexual predator and celebrity #Scientologist #DannyMasterson was handed down a sentence of 30 years to life for his crimes.

Good.

Now if other sexual predators could receive the same treatment. (I'm looking at you, TFG.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66744480

Actor Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life for two rapes

The star of That '70s Show sat in court as the two women he raped described the impact of his crimes.

BBC News
Court documents also said that #Masterson had raped another woman, identified as Jen B., in April 2003 after he gave her a drink. Jen B., who sought the #Scientology church’s permission to report the #rape, later received a written response from the church’s international chief justice that cited a 1965 policy letter, which for her raised concerns she could be ousted from her family & friends if she reported a fellow #Scientologist to the police. Still, she reported the rape in 2004.

Suppressive Ex-#Scientologist actress #LeahRemini sues #ReligiousCult leader #DavidMiscavige for 17 years of psychological #torture ,
defamation, #surveillance, #harassment, and intimidation. She seeks to protect her own #ConstitutionalRights and end #unlawful #FairGame activities targeting ex-members by purported #church operatives she left behind a decade ago and has since exposed via widely viewed TV #documentaries.

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/02/i-intend-to-be-the-last-leah-remini-sues-church-of-scientology-citing-psychological-torture/

"I intend to be the last”: Leah Remini sues Church of Scientology citing "psychological torture"

The actress is seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the alleged harm inflicted upon her by the church

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