Alisa Sieber

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, husband shot and killed; Sen. John Hoffman and wife also shot Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

The first assainations of democratic leaders should raise some #MAGA alarm bells. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Alisa Sieber on Substack My children are playing. The lake water laps at the shore. The breeze is cool. And all I can think about is how preventable it all might have been. All I can think about is how much I want to be p...

I wrote a poem watching the bombs on TV. substack.com/@alisasieber...

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How the Fuck Did We Become What We Swore to Fight? A Marine veteran exposes how obedience, propaganda, and profit turned America’s military against its own people - June 14 is just the beginning.

Read my 17yo journal, the one I wrote before enlisting.
I was scared of what would happen if I followed orders that broke my conscience.
Watched the Fort Bragg speech.
He called people like me the enemy.
So I’ll ask plainly:
Am I?
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#fortbragg #militarytruth #htfdwgh

Alisa Sieber on Substack The Business of Love: What Corporate Strategies Taught Me About Intimacy The steam rises between us, curling into the space that once held only tension. My husband sits across from me at our kitchen ...

Dropped a note #marriage #scrum #standup #relationships substack.com/@alisasieber...

What Ten Minutes Really Costs How rejection and abandonment wounds collide in the aftermath of a saying, "No."

10 minutes. That's all he wanted, was 10 minutes. #storytelling #storyteller

The American Dream Was a Floorplan From cul-de-sac captivity to global collapse: how privatized power rewrote the future.

Marketed to families that looked just like mine—dual-income couples, kids in public schools, flags on porches. The perfect demographic: stable enough to qualify for loans, aspirational enough to stretch beyond our means, grateful enough not to question why everything we "owned" felt borrowed.

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Tyler Mitchell on Substack What starts as a story about food becomes a reflection on proximity, privilege, and what we choose to notice. Great piece!

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How the Fuck Did We Ignore the Taste of Global Crisis? When our farmers markets collide with war zones, and caring isn't enough to bridge the gap.

stayed up til 3am writing this bc the lentils hit different
because global power plays taste like love, grief & survival
because your farmers market is more connected to war zones than you think
read it. share it. let it wreck you a little.

#HTFDWGH #geopolitics #hornofafrica #substack

How the Fuck Did I Get Here: Stepping Outside the Matrix After years of survival mode, I finally saw the code and chose a different path.

This week on the farm: one horse incident that could've been catastrophic, a missing cat that nearly broke my daughter's heart, another horse down in her stall, and a family dinner under the stars that almost spiraled into old patterns. But something's different now.

What We Lose When We Never Get Lost When convenience becomes captivity, and survival becomes dependence, we have to ask—what are we still calling freedom?

Starlink. Amazon. Protestors labeled terrorists. Connection conditioned on compliance.

This isn’t the freedom we fought for.

New essay up now.
Read now and subscribe on Substack.

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How the Fuck Did We Let Our Military Become a Cult of Personal Loyalty? The Consequences of Military Leadership Forsaking the Constitution for a Singular Man

When the military is purged of leaders who swear allegiance to the Constitution instead of one man, we should all be asking: What happens next? History warns us where this road leads. Will we pay attention?

Read the full article & engage in critical thought. Subscribe now. 🔗 #HTFDWGH #military

The End of Protest? How AI is Preemptively Criminalizing Resistance How the fuck did we get here? The battlefield has changed. If we don’t find new ways to fight back, we’ll wake up too late to ask the question.

They don’t need to silence protestors if AI can erase them before they speak. Facial recognition, deepfakes, predictive policing—resistance is being mapped, tracked, and neutralized before it even begins. The battlefield has changed. Are we paying attention?

Read more—link in bio.

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes.

The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds.

This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

Have you ever found yourself mid-fight, trapped in a version of yourself you thought you’d outgrown? My latest #HTFDIGH article is about love, conflict, and how real work begins after the apology—not in getting it right, but in choosing to try again. ✨ Read & subscribe- Link in bio #BreakingCycles

Alisa Sieber on Substack Every Version of Me Still Lives Here I was driving through San Jose yesterday—not in passing like I’ve done for the past 20 years, but because I was driving home. My family and I recently moved back ...

I was just driving home—until I wasn’t. Passing the Almaden Expressway, I was suddenly every version of myself that’s ever driven this road: the angry 25-year-old, the reckless teen, the child searching for escape. Healing is real, but the past always lingers. Full story on Substack. 🔗 Link in bio

Raising daughters in a world where curiosity is punished feels like walking a tightrope. I want them to ask big questions and explore without fear—but what happens when belief becomes a weapon of control?

📖 Read the full piece. Let’s talk.
🔗 Link in bio. #StayCurious #HTFDIGH

Left the suburbs for farm life a month ago, chasing the simple joys—like my chicken finding a worm for my compost. Life here is full of unexpected magic and down-to-earth moments. Follow for farm adventures, homestead wins, and everyday chaos (like getting a cat out of a tree right now). 🐓🌱

Alisa Sieber on Substack Guantánamo Bay: The Mission That Tests More Than Readiness "We are going to Guantánamo Bay to complete the mission that was given to us." — U.S. Marine Corps First Sergeant Johnny Stone But what exa...

What does it mean to serve when the mission blurs ethical boundaries? Troops are deploying to Guantánamo Bay—not for national security, but to expand the migrant operations center. How do service members reconcile duty with conscience in a place known for unchecked power?

Read on #Substack #HTFDWGH

Have you ever noticed the roles we unknowingly give our kids? I saw those patterns—golden child, scapegoat—unfold in real-time. Years of work brought me to a powerful shift in how we moved through it. Read the full reflection on breaking old cycles on Substack. substack.com/@alisasieber...

The Reckoning Always Comes: On Breaking Cycles and Staying A story of unspoken wounds, inherited patterns, and the choice to stop running—because breaking the cycle isn’t about leaving, it’s about learning how to stay.

I've been overwhelmed by news, but only because I finally have the capacity to hold it. That work began with understanding myself. I’m sharing my first HTFDIGH essay: The Reckoning Always Comes. Because cycles don’t break themselves. 🔗 howthefuckdidigethere.substack.com/p/the-reckon... #HTFDIGH

Alisa Sieber on Substack WTAF: Trump Just “Mused” About a Third Term—Again Trump stood at a prayer breakfast today and told the crowd, “I want to be here with you, and I have to be here with you… despite the fact that they s...

🚨 Trump just floated a third term. Again.

They call it a joke, but authoritarians don’t joke—they test the waters. Every time he says it, he’s normalizing the idea, conditioning his base, and eroding democracy in real time.

Read the full breakdown here: substack.com/@alisasieber... ⬇️ #WTAF

WTAF?

The amount of disruption this will cause... what is the human cost?

🚨 When women are dismissed, their suffering becomes invisible.

An Afghan journalist was mocked by the president, erased in real-time—because her voice didn’t matter to him. But this isn’t just one moment. It’s a pattern.

🔗 Read the full piece on: substack.com/@alisasieber...

WTAF is going on?

Huge thanks to @chrismurphyct.bsky.social for breaking down the billionaire takeover of our government in a way everyone needs to hear. The dismantling of USAID, Treasury infiltration, and spending power grab aren’t separate crises—they’re part of the same playbook. Eyes open. #WTAF #Politics #USAID

Warfighters, Mothers, Liabilities: The Military’s Silent War Against Women They’ll let women serve, but only if we sacrifice more, ask for less, and disappear when it’s convenient—how the fuck did we get here?

Warfighters. Mothers. Liabilities.

For women in the military, service is sacrifice—of autonomy, stability, and dignity. Now, as DEI is under attack, those sacrifices are being erased.

Read my first HTFDWGH article: Warfighters, Mothers, Liabilities.

#DEI #howthefuckdidwegethere #women #equality

This move isn’t just about leaving a house—it’s about releasing the weight of a lifetime. A year ago, I began facing the parts of myself I’d hidden for so long. Now, as I close this chapter, healing feels tangible. Read my latest #substack on letting go and finding wholeness: bit.ly/m/writingbya...

#empathy #curiosity #substack #personalessays #amwriting