Sheena Avena

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[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

Since you are here, odds are you are propagandized and paralyzed in fear. It is a death from a thousand podcasts and a billion bots.

We do not have to give them what they want. The antidote is to make decisions now betting the techno capitalists' vision is a lie.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Holy moly

[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

@davidsirota Sorry but who? Exactly.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Hypothesis: There’s not one single human being outside of the tiny elite political/media/billionaire class who have any desire for Rahm Emanuel to run for any public office in America.

Perhaps a ton of money will be spent to change this, but this is my hypothesis as of today.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

A large union of Wayne County cops just endorsed Abdul El Sayed.

This is how progressives win.

[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

Whatever happened to angry kids just playing music?

[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

@cremieuxrecueil Yes. Won't you?

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The anti-DSA establishment absolutely gets it, and they are winning a lot of the battles. They got the left to ditch Platner, and they may push a fairly stupid and corrupt Haley Stevens over Abdul El-Sayed with Obama's tacit support.

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

The Writers Guild of America sued to block Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, alleging the deal would unlawfully decrease competition for screenwriting services for film and television. https://t.co/n2Ss8dolRL

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

Working people are paying 50% tax while some billionaires pay nothing

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

You need to defend the wealth in your economy

[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

The Wealth Defense Industry, neoliberal economist dogs, and the media dancers are all afraid of @garyseconomics. And they should be.

Keep going mate. We will win.

#taxwealthnotwork

[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

Yup. Done with the soft-spined lily-livered "intellectual" American left.

We need strength to change. It needs to come from the people.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The broader point here is that the left simply cannot govern. They are easily frightened and manipulated by a tiny bit of scandal or controversy, they cannot possibly challenge Wall Street or anyone else with power. They'll be easily scared into submission, as they were here.

[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

Born to a cheat, raised to cheat.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Bill Gates' daughter got caught skimming affiliate commissions with an invisible browser tab. Not a rumor. Bloomberg tested it, a fraud researcher tested it, a competitor tested it, and all three watched Phia's extension plant its own tracking code on purchases it had nothing to do with.

The mechanism takes 30 seconds to understand. Online retail pays commission to the last referrer before a sale. A reviewer spends 40 hours testing headphones, you buy through their link, they get a cut. But a browser extension sits inside your browser and sees every checkout, so it can jump in at the last second and overwrite the reviewer's code with its own. That's what Phia did. Background tab, code swap, commission redirected. Verified on 50+ retailers including Walmart, Nike, and Zara. It happened even when shoppers came through a Wirecutter review or typed the URL themselves.

Now the psychology. Phoebe Gates is 23 with a $100B safety net. She doesn't need the pennies. But the pennies weren't the point. Attributed sales are the growth number that got Hailey Bieber and Khloé Kardashian on the cap table and pushed the valuation to $185M in under a year. Every hijacked commission made the dashboard look better than the product.

That's the actual danger of founders with nothing to lose. A founder who needs the company to eat is paranoid about what the code does. A founder who needs the company as a personal brand ships whatever moves the chart, and when it blows up, apologizes and moves on with the same last name.

Phia called it a coding glitch. https://t.co/lfAwgEnpiH suspended them and opened an investigation, because affiliate networks have seen this before. Honey allegedly did the same thing, sold to PayPal for $4B, and is in a class action over it now.

A kid with generational wealth built software that takes rent money from product reviewers so a pitch deck would look good. She'll be fine. The reviewers won't get their commissions back.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

watch here as @DanaBashCNN’s entire body seems to short circuit as brad suggests, in the softest way possible, that palestinians are human beings

[Sheena Avena @kash_avena]

The baby-obsessed goons can't help but make it more sus to make more children under their rule.

[Drey @thedreydossier]

Trump Accounts are no longer going to be optional- so if you ever plan on having a child in the USA, you should read what I found:

According to the @SocialSecurity Administration's announcement last week, they are modifying the hospital birth registration form so that a Trump Account is AUTOMATICALLY created for your child through that same process.

It will be bundled into the Enumeration at Birth program (EAB), which is the already automated gov pipeline that gives your newborn a Social Security number. It’s one box that you check, you don’t have the option of unbundling it. So if you want your kid to have a Social Security number, they have to have a Trump account.

Which is strange, because according to the IRS and @USTreasury’s public announcements, these accounts only open when a parent actively elects to open one. So which is it? Why is nobody in the government interested in explaining this flagrant contradiction?

Who is going to answer the basic question of what a parent does if they don’t want a government-linked investment account (one that collects biometric data, by the way) created for their child at the exact moment their child’s Social Security number issued?

They can call it a savings account all they want, but a $1,000 deposit is a hell of a cheap price for building a lifelong financial file on every American child before they can consent to anything.

And once the government normalizes linking a person’s identity, financial activity, and predictive systems from birth, who gets to decide what that data will be used to predict later?

We deserve answers immediately. @ndstudio @WhiteHouse

[Zachary D. Carter @zachdcarter]

Yeah all this “shame on lefties for liking Platner” stuff is kind of a tell. The guy won a primary by a huge margin. The takeaway is that *voters* hate the establishment so much they were willing to roll the dice on Platner. https://t.co/27FqOxroeb

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Unless he didn’t do it, right? Or is that no longer considered a possibility?

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Just as all claims of antisemitism by AIPAC are done in good faith, there are no ulterior motives in all gender dynamics within the Democratic Party.

[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

This is unconscionable. Anybody with eyes and a heart knows the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza. It has to end, and we as Americans have the power to end it.

When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I’ll never vote in favor of US taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

How corporate Dems & their donors are trying to turn Platner’s withdrawal into a corporate coup that ignores the policy demands of the largest primary vote in Maine’s history.

A fascinating look at those turning a crisis into oligarchs’ opportunity 👇 https://t.co/QRA1NoBXbG