The dots were always everywhere, now they can finally connect them.

I’ve gotten a fair number of questions about the Planatir news, so let me lay out a few key things to keep in mind.

First:

The U.S. government has had this kind of capability—the ability to know anything about you, almost instantly—for decades.

Yeah. Decades.

Ever wonder how, three seconds before a terrorist attack, we know nothing, but three seconds after, we suddenly know their full bio, travel record, high school GPA, what they had for breakfast, the lap dance they got the night before, and the last time they took a dump?

Yeah. Data collection isn’t the problem. It never has been. The problem is, and always has been, connecting the dots.

The U.S. government vacuums up data 24/7. Some of it legally. Some of it… less so. And under the Trump Regime, let’s be honest—we’re not exactly seeing a culture of legal compliance over at DHS, the FBI, or anywhere else. Unless Pete Hegseth adds a hooker or a media executive to a Signal thread and it leaks, we’re not going to know what they’re doing.

But the safest bet? Assume Title 50 is out the f*ing window.

For the uninitiated: Title 50 governs U.S. intelligence operations. It prohibits turning that machinery—especially things like NTM (national technical means) or the NSA’s bulk intercept tools—against Americans.

There are exceptions. But they’re narrow. And they exist precisely to prevent a situation where someone like TACO can ruin your life because he’s having a hissy fit and is enabled by a ketamine-fueled choade with root access.

And yet—here we are.