Elizabeth Holmes has a new target, and this time it is not investors, regulators, or a jury. From behind the walls of a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas, the woman once celebrated as the youngest self-made female billionaire in America has set her sights on Twitch’s biggest political broadcaster, Hasan Piker.
“Someone organize a cage match with this communist dog abuser so I can embarrass him,” the post from Holmes’ X account read, quote-tweeting a clip of Piker performing at a live event.
She was not finished. Minutes later, a follow-up landed: “But first I get to douse him in water and put his dog’s ‘non’ shocking collar on him. Good luck Prince of Palestine.”
The jab at the collar was not random. Piker has spent recent weeks fending off accusations that he abused his dog Kaya using a sh0ck collar, after a clip from an October broadcast showed her yelping while stepping off her bed behind him on camera.
The clip tore through Twitch and X within hours. Fellow broadcaster Tectone did not hold back, writing on X: “I always wondered how Hasan kept his dog behind him all stream. It’s because he’s been using a sh0ck collar on a setting so high that his dog f**king screams when he uses it. Using your dog as a prop to seem more friendly relatable and down to earth when in reality the dog isn’t sitting there of his own volition but stays there out of fear. I am beyond disgusted. F**k this man’s whole existence.”
Piker pushed back hard, at one point sarcastically telling his chat, “Yes, I am incredibly abusive, to the not only best trained, but also the best behaving and most spoiled dog on the planet.” He insisted the yelp had nothing to do with a collar at all.
“She yelped because she f**king clipped herself on something when she was getting off the bed,” he said, later adding, “I gave her the place command while she was getting off, and then she yelped. She had broken the previous bed. I suspect it’s coming from some crazy h*ters. She yelped when she was getting off the bed, because I assume she either stepped funny or clipped her foot on something.”
He eventually held the device up to his camera, describing it as vibration-only. “It has the capacity to vibrate and that’s it,” he said. “There’s the AirTag. It also has a flashlight component to it at nighttime, and it also has a tracker on it if she were to actually get lost. It emits a sound.”
Into that mess strolled Elizabeth Holmes, or at least the account bearing her name. Her posting habits have become their own small mystery. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has confirmed that inmates cannot access the internet or social media, with a spokesperson stating plainly, “Individuals inside federal prisons do not have access to the internet or social media,” while declining to say who actually runs the account.
Whoever it is has been prolific, publishing thousands of posts and pulling in tens of thousands of followers since the account stirred back to life, covering everything from prison life to a book club to her ongoing insistence that she did nothing wrong.
Branding specialist Garret Caudle suspects a small team is behind it, guessing “between three to four people,” and explains that the setup is plausible even from behind bars, since “you can have a single point of contact with a team leader” who then “strategize with you, talk about the pillars, and then they’re operating on your behalf.”
As for why bother at all, Caudle put it bluntly: “What does she have that she can really use, other than her personal brand? There’s not a lot.”
The internet, naturally, showed up in the replies to remind everyone exactly who is doing the challenging. “I don’t think that would be possible since you are in a federal prison,” wrote one user.
Another was more pointed: “Aren’t you in prison until 2031 for lying to sick people about their blood tests for your Ponzi scheme? You gave real people false results for cancer, HIV, and miscarriages for profit.”
A more sympathetic reply framed it as validation: “When Elizabeth Holmes is against, you definitely know you are on the right side of history.”
Others treated the whole thing as pure theater, with one asking, “Are you gonna ask him to join a round of funding?” and another wondering aloud, “Is she angling for a trump pardon now lmao.”
That last jab may be closer to the mark than the joke intended. Holmes reportedly filed a clemency request that remains under review with the Department of Justice, hoping to shave time off a sentence that still has nearly six years left to run. The administration has shown a taste for commuting sentences of well-known business figures before, having done so for Ross Ulbricht, Trevor Milton, Changpeng Zhao, and Carlos Watson, and Holmes’ account has taken a noticeably warmer tone toward the current administration in recent months, a sharp turn from a decade ago when she hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.
None of it changes the arithmetic. Holmes was convicted for defrauding investors after her company misled the public about a blood-testing device that never worked the way she promised, with real patients receiving false readings on conditions as serious as cancer.
When the New York Times asked her what would have happened if the fraud had never come to light, she answered, “We would have achieved our goals by now,” a line the sentencing judge pointed to as evidence she still felt no remorse.
