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The Tennessee Star released the full journal of the Nashville, Tennessee, shooter Tuesday, and its contents reveal how transgender orthodoxy can encourage suicidal tendencies—and worse—in a way that turns gender identity into a kind of religion. Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old female who identified as male, opened fire at the Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, 2023. Before police shot and killed her, Hale killed three children and three adults—Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9; Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61. The Metro Nashville Police Department recovered 90 pages of Hale’s writings in a collection the Tennessee Star refers to as “The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal.” A source familiar with the investigation provided the journal to The Star in June 2024. Police also recovered a spiral notebook with writings about locations, including a map of the school and how Hale planned to enter the school and kill people there. Authorities also recovered 20 additional journals Hale wrote between 2007 and 2022. The Star obtained only the 2023 journal. Michael Patrick Leahy, the Star’s editor-in-chief, said a Nashville government lawyer confirmed the journal’s authenticity in court. The Star filed a Tennessee Public Records Act request for all the Hale documents in April 2023, and the news outlet is appealing a judge’s refusal to order the documents published. Leahy also claims that Davidson County, Tenn., Judge L’Ashea Myles sent a letter on June 10, ordering him into her courtroom on June 17, on the pretext that he had violated a court order. Leahy claims he had violated no court order and that Myles refused to provide the court order in question. He further claims that Myles altered the reason for the meeting on June 17 in moves that created “a chilling effect on my First Amendment rights.” “According to Tennessee Supreme Court rules, judges are ethically prohibited from commenting on ongoing cases,” J. Bart Pickett, state trial courts administrator, told The Daily Signal, which had approached his office to receive Judge Myles’ side of the story. Rage Against Her Father Hale’s journal reveals a great deal of anger against her father. Hale’s writings repeatedly fixate on her erotic desire for a girl and include frequent laments that she is female and so cannot be in a heterosexual relationship with the object of her affection. “I’m in the wrong body,” Hale writes. “A terrible feeling to know I am nothing of the gender I was born of,” she adds. “I am the most unhappy boy alive. I wish to be dead.” “Either I have too much b**ch-ass estrogen, or I’m just a sad lonely boy,” she writes. She recalls applying for art jobs and getting rejected, time and time again. “It’s simple yet everything to me of adult life sucks—more complicated than it should be,” Hale writes. “Death is simple.” She repeatedly condemns her father, referring to him as a “faggot,” and writing, “A day without a father will be a better day.” In one passage titled, “Dad problems,” Hale writes, “I hate when my dad loves on the cats; not me. He never once loved on me for years.” She adds, “all cranky good-for-nothing mentally ill men SHOULD DIE. They’re all useless pieces of sh**.” She repeatedly condemns her father for giving her advice and attempting to encourage her that life will get better. Screenshot of Nashville shooter’s journal from The Tennessee Star A Religious Hope The Daily Wire’s Brent Scher previously released documents from Hale’s journal in which the shooter condemns Christians, but the journal’s overall tone suggests a belief in a warped version of Christianity centered on gender. Hale condemned “F***ing parents like [hers] who think of themselves first and their preference of conservative religion-gay sh** make them believe that the child they are given should stay that way.” She wrote, “Make them go to youth group + force Christian friends in their life because the old ones were a ‘bad’ influence. … Parents actually believe religion can change nature. That could explain why I don’t practice religion anymore. Let kids think for themselves … .“ 2/ In one passage, the shooter rails against “Christian friends” that her parents have encouraged her to make. She writes, “Parents actually believe religion can change nature. That could explain why I don’t practice religion anymore. Let kids think for themselves.” pic.twitter.com/04xRXvBspj— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 12, 2024 Yet, Hale’s suicidal tendencies rested on the belief that she would go to heaven and receive a male body. “I don’t want a free golden start to an opportuned [sic] new life. I just want another life beyond this realm,” she wrote. She wrote that the way people addressed her drove her to suicide, as if public acceptance of her claimed gender identity was a matter of life and death. “When I’m called a lady or ma’am—damn it, it makes me not want to exist,” she wrote. Perhaps the most revealing passage involved a metaphor: Hale hoped that after she died, her “male” spirit would escape her female body as a butterfly leaves behind its cocoon. “The caccoon [sic] of my old self will die when I leave my body behind, and the boy in me will be free in my butterfly transformation; the real me,” she wrote. Her emphasis on gender above all else appeared to lead her to question the goodness of God. “If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven, then Jesus is a faggot,” she wrote. Screenshot of Nashville shooter’s journal from The Tennessee Star Yet at other points in the journal, she addresses God directly. “My faith is weak,” she wrote, while expressing hope that she’ll be in “a better place” after her rampage. “God forgive me.” Her faith appears based on a form of Gnosticism—an ancient Christian heresy built on the notion that the physical world is evil and the spiritual world is good, so salvation involves a rejection of, and escape from, the physical world. Her notion of a spiritual reality in opposition to her physical body—a male identity in opposition to her female body—drove her to desire death as a release from the physical world. The elevation of “gender identity” over physical reality need not drive those who identify as transgender to suicide or to angry tirades, but it appears to have done so for Hale. Practical Questions The journal raises important questions about whether Hale’s massacre could have been prevented. The shooter initially planned her attack for Jan. 17, but she couldn’t go through with it. She wrote about calling a suicide hotline five times. She planned the shooting again for Feb. 17, but her journal records that the Covenant School had been closed that day, due to weather. As the Star reported, Hale’s journal references her therapist in “a possible allusion to her status as a 22-year mental health patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), where police documents obtained by The Star reveal she was twice evaluated for commitment.” On her final journal entry, Hale wrote, “There were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021.” These elements raise important questions about the case. What did the authorities know about Hale? Had her therapist warned authorities about her? What does the spiral notebook reveal about her plans? What do previous journals reveal about her decision to target the Covenant School, which she had previously attended? Did Hale take testosterone before engaging in her rampage? Why do authorities seem so intent on hiding the journals nearly 18 months after the shooting? Do they fear that Hale’s religious approach to gender identity might undermine the appeal of gender ideology in American society? The post Nashville Shooter’s Journal Reveals Dark Side of Transgender Orthodoxy appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The office of Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was infiltrated by an agent working for the communist Chinese government, according to the FBI. On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Linda Sun for allegedly acting on "behalf of the government of the People’s Republic of China." 'The illicit scheme enriched the defendant’s family to the tune of millions of dollars.' Sun worked for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and as the deputy chief for the current governor. She is accused of money laundering conspiracy, violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and alien smuggling. Sun's husband, Chris Hu, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and misuse by means of identification. The couple was arrested Tuesday morning at their $3.5 million home on Long Island. Prosecutors said that Sun used her position to craft New York's messaging to fit the goals of the Chinese government. She also allegedly blocked representatives of the Taiwanese government from access to New York state officials as well as other acts to further China's agenda. In exchange, the couple allegedly received millions of dollars and lavish gifts. Officials also claimed that the Chinese government sent “Nanjing-style salted ducks” to the home of Sun's parents. “The illicit scheme enriched the defendant’s family to the tune of millions of dollars," said United States attorney Breon Peace. Sun was required to register as an agent of a foreign government by federal and state law but failed to do so, according to prosecutors.A statement from Hochul's office said Sun was fired in 2023. “This individual was hired by the Executive Chamber more than a decade ago. We terminated her employment in March 2023 after discovering evidence of misconduct, immediately reported her actions to law enforcement and have assisted law enforcement throughout this process,” read the statement. Sun also worked as the chief diversity officer in Cuomo's administration. Hochul was elevated to the governor's office in 2021 after Cuomo resigned over numerous allegations and controversies. She was elected to the office in 2022 and has announced she's running for re-election in 2026. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Efforts by the Freedom Caucus to risk a government shutdown in order to pass a voter integrity bill are opposed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office, according to a report. Republicans and Democrats will have to come together on a continuing resolution by Sept. 30 in order to avoid a government shutdown, but some Republicans want to tie the motion to a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote. 'The most imminent threat facing the country, is the integrity of this election cycle.' The legislation is called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility act, or SAVE for short. The Hill report said that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana is considering attaching the act to the budget resolution. “I can verify for you that the SAVE Act is a big part of this conversation,” said Johnson. “And it is not just the Freedom Caucus — it is members across the conference who share the same concern that we do about this," he added. "And we believe it’s one of the — perhaps the most urgent issue, the most imminent threat facing the country, is the integrity of this election cycle.” However, Axios reported that McConnell's office has cautioned Johnson against including the motion because of the risk that Democrats would respond by adding their own motions to the resolution. Among those might be the John Lewis Voting Rights act, which is being prioritized by Democrats. President Joe Biden has said he strongly opposes the bill to protect voter integrity, and Democrats control the Senate, making the bill difficult to pass. It was approved in the Republican-controlled House in July with support from five Democrats and all present Republicans. The Biden administration has previously said it opposes the bill because it supposedly makes voting more difficult for some Americans. "This bill would do nothing to safeguard our elections, but it would make it much harder for all eligible Americans to register to vote and increase the risk that eligible voters are purged from voter rolls," read a statement from the White House. "The evidence is clear that the current laws to prevent noncitizen voting are working as intended — it is extraordinarily rare for noncitizens to break the law by voting in federal elections." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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