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Tony Ortega
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Tony Ortega writes The Underground Bunker, a personal blog at tonyortega.substack.com about culture and history. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Substack for its reporting on Scientology, including a court-ordered arbitration involving a former Sea Org member. One commenter lists it in a thread on favourite substacks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daily news about Scientology since 2012.
What Hacker News says?
Somebody needs to tell right-wing libertarians that this is literally a way to institute Sharia law. Maybe start a IoT company, and change the EULA to force things to be settled through Islamic courts. This is not an exaggeration. Right now Valerie Haney has begun her fourth year of court-ordered Scientology arbitration over the billion year contract she signed to work for sub-minimum wage as a Sea Org member. https…
Comment linking /p/val-haney-now-up-to-17-days-scientology
on “An ad-free Android TV”Submitted Leah Remini: Leaked Scientology policies direct lawyers in religious warfare as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI'm not advocating for that, I'm just saying the whole thing is performative and gets taken at face value in a way that it should not be. If you wanted to be a contrarian concerned about x-risks go try to find $1B to pay Embraer or another minor aviation vendor to make a plane to do stratospheric aerosol injection or something. --- If you want my diagnosis it is, in a time of lower social inequality cults frequently…
Comment linking /p/scientologys-ias-trophy-winners-part-5bd
on “The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence”Submitted L. Ron Hubbard gushing about working with Leni Riefenstahl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://mattstoller.substack.com/ https://tonyortega.substack.com/
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite sub stacks?”Submitted When Lolita met Xenu: Scientology targeted Nabokov's publisher as a story · 2 points
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