"federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City"

Talk about burying the lede

Burying the lede on what? The individual in question was being targeted in part because he was exercising his First Amendment right to protest environmental destruction and the militarization of police. I think if anything this makes it more disturbing. The US government has a long history of criminalizing movements they don't like as "terrorism".

It's sad how much everyone saw this coming. We've been warned since the very beginning that this arbitrary expansion of punishments you can do to anyone labelled a "terrorist" (previous "communist") will inevitably come back to bite us. We saw it with the Red Scares and now we have the Black Scare. FFS, even citizens are getting arrested for moving zines around

Btw, here's a list of the zines for which people got charged as terrorists and sentenced for decades in prison for https://pnppl.cc/prairieland/

Note that "antifa" is now recognized as a terrorist organization by the current federal government. It will get much worse if they aren't stopped.