Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 11/4

[SVPete]

A Judge Released Honduran Illegal Alien Arrested by ICE, and We All Can Guess What Happened Next

https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/11/03/judge-released-honduran-illegal-alien-went-to-mn-raped-a-woman-n2685802

Marcotulio Melendez Diaz is an illegal alien from Honduras. He was arrested by ICE in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and issued a deportation order, but thanks to an activist judge, Diaz was released.

Diaz was now arrested in Ramsey County, Minnesota for raping a woman. That rape was captured on her internal home surveillance system.
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"ICE sources tell FOX that Melendez Diaz was initially caught and released at the Texas border by the Biden administration in April 2024," Melugin wrote. "ICE arrested him in Minnesota in January 2026 during Operation Metro Surge and transferred him to ICE detention in Texas where he initially crossed the border illegally. An immigration judge issued him a deportation order on 3/30/2026 and MELENDEZ DIAZ appealed. But on 8/7/2026, a federal judge in the Western District of Texas, Judge Orlando L. Garcia (Clinton appointee) ordered MELENDEZ DIAZ released from ICE custody and granted his habeas petition on grounds of “due process”, and MELENDEZ DIAZ made his way back to Minnesota."

Whocould foresee that releasing an illegal from ICE custody would result in him committing a violent crime?

[SVPete]

Supreme Court Weighs If Colorado Can Make Christian Schools Enroll Trans Kids To Get Funding

https://thefederalist.com/2026/11/03/supreme-court-weighs-if-colorado-can-make-christian-schools-enroll-trans-kids-to-get-funding/

In 2020, Colorado voters approved Proposition EE to fund free, voluntary preschool for every family. The legislature promised a “mixed delivery system” available to public and private, religious and secular schools alike. Then it attached a condition: every participating preschool must agree to enroll children “regardless of … religious affiliation, sexual orientation … or gender identity.”

For the Archdiocese of Denver, which oversees 36 Catholic preschools, that condition was no technicality. Teachers, staff, and parents sign a statement affirming they will live according to church teaching and the parishes’ sincerely held belief that they must consider a family’s sexual orientation and gender identity at admission.

The archdiocese asked for an exemption. The state said no. So Catholic preschools stayed out, and families like Daniel and Lisa Sheley lost a benefit their own tax dollars support.

The Tenth Circuit’s Sleight of Hand
The federal trial court sided with Colorado, concluding that the state did not exclude religious schools at all. Colorado, it said, “welcomed and actively solicited” the participation of faith-based schools, subject only to a nondiscrimination rule that applies to everyone.

That is a distinction without a difference. In just the last ten years, the Supreme Court has held three times that a state that funds private education may not withhold those funds because a school is religious or because it will use them religiously: Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, and Carson v. Makin. A condition that a faithful Catholic school cannot satisfy excludes that school just as surely as a sign on the door reading “No Catholics Need Apply.” Colorado simply moved the exclusion from the statutory rules to the contract between the state and the schools.

[SVPete]

Hackers Attack Supermarkets Across Europe Again, Destroying Millions of Dollars of Food

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/11/03/hackers-again-attack-stores-destroying-millions-of-dollars-of-food/

Food suppliers and retailers have been warned to urgently update the software on their fridges as European supermarkets have been hit by another wave of hacks, destroying millions of Euros of food.

Over 100 supermarkets and food suppliers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, and Estonia were the target of a hacking attack late on Sunday night. The attackers remotely instructed internet-connect smart refrigerators in stores and warehouses to engage their defrost mode, boosting temperatures from the normal working sub-freezing to as high as 50 degrees centigrade (122 F).

While a handful of these attacks were detected quickly, most were not and huge quantities of food were defrosted, rendering them unfit for human consumption. The affected supermarkets and chains include French and German retail giants Carrefour and EDEKA, as well as Spar, Intermarché, ICA Group, Colruyt, Axfood, Delhaize, the Belgian Cooperative, and IKEA.

My emphasis. How in Hades did stores with Internet-connected refridgerators not secure their equipment after the first time (two weeks ago!!!) this happened?!