As a string of attacks on electrical substations unfolded in Oregon and Washington in 2022, the FBI was warning utilities of white supremacists’ plots to take down the nation’s power grid. An investigation by OPB and Washington public media station KUOW reveals the scope of the threat to the Northwest grid.
"Domestic violence extremists" call them fucking terrorists you absolutely useless cowards
I think we normally just call those cops
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They have to use weird language like that for the same reason they use the term "allegedly" - because "terrorism" is a specific crime, and IIRC there are weird legal rules around why it can't be applied to domestic orgs.
interesting, never heard anything about that before.... do you have anything that you can link that explains more about this