[Steve Van Doorn]

There is an ongoing WAVE of low key attacks on the US power grid

CCP “Police” stations in the United States, from which they likely conduct both ‘dry’ and ‘wet’ operations?

Additionally, there are both criminal gangs — US forks of drug cartels, and native US outfits — and anarchist/leftist groups that have a history of conducting violent, decentralized operations
Governments often conduct operations overtly, covertly, or clandestinely in order to calibrate potential fallout.
it’s likely that this is either a clandestine or covert act. Why? Because the perpetrator doesn’t want to be able to be “blamed” or what’s happening.
What does this look like?
Found here: (note: A post like this would've been banned not long ago.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1600917754831204353

[Steve Van Doorn]

If you're a legal conservative immigrant you will be thrown out of the country.


some of her other posts are FUNNY if she didn't actually believe them.
"The membership list of the white supremacist Oath Keepers leaked ... PLEASE RT TO EXPOSE THEM ALL!"
I actually agree with her. Though its not what she thinks it means.
https://twitter.com/ericareport/status/1602785534522183680

[thinden]

a lotta these attackers are low tech: box knives, fertilizer...........

[bitt]

check out #303

[Pajamajan]

Your post 303 -Everyone needs to check it out. Interesting.

[meyer]

On the one hand, “attacks” on the grid have been going on for decades, but most of them are/were benign. Usually, the festive shooting of insulators on transmission lines in the woods, or celebratory shooting of pole-top transformers on July 4th in “the hood” were the extent of such activity.

But history has a number of cases where things were much more damaging, or potentially damaging. Loosening bolts on a transmission line tower so that it would fail in a storm. One incident, the perp disabled control wiring in a substation, then rigged up a cable across some railroad tracks in an effort to take down a substantial portion of the grid in his area. He even took liberty of operating some heavy excavating equipment that was parked in the area. He was caught, of course.

But these events have increased in some areas. Out west in Oregon and Washington state, and the recent activity in NC show that people are acting and it doesn’t necessarily appear to be random. The NC action, in particular - either the perp(s) were extremely lucky or they knew where to go to inflict the most trouble with a single effort.

I have been off work on leave for a couple of weeks, but I do check my email and there is an effort within the industry to increase awareness of this kind of activity - to be on alert, and to share any information within the industry immediately.