It’s not lost on me that we have no idea where Megan got COVID, and the only reason we know and we’ve both been mandated off work is because we actually are testing and reporting our symptoms.

Is insomnia a COVID symptom? Serious question. I’ve never slept worse in my entire life. And it wasn’t my mild sore throat keeping me awake. I just was awake.

I had a very involved dream about reading tumblr posts and memes about Supergirl and then reading Supergirl fanfic? I have no thought about or watched this show in years? Quit honestly, I’m confused. Also because like I read so much content in the dream. ?

This anniversary-of-trauma insomnia is the worst. I already spent months last year not being able to sleep. I don’t need a repeat experience just because it’s been a year. Did the universe not get my 0/10, would not recommend, would not go again rating card?

Finally met my new PCP, she told me she’s leaving too in the coming months. Told me her RVU minimum set by her employer is so high that, paradoxically, if she takes her PTO then she wont meet her astronomical RVU goal and has to pay back her employer at the end of the year.

🧵 What people don’t understand is that the Duggar parents are not monsters. They are people who became harnessed by an ideology that was predicated on fear and control. Do not get me wrong- they have behaved monstrously. And Josh, specifically, is a monster. /1

But fundamentalism does what it promises- it fundamentally alters people and tells them to go against their instincts of what is right. IMHO, Jim Bob and Michelle love their children. And this is *not* excusing their behavior, or dismissing it with “all parents screw up”- /2

We tend to look at people in cults and say, “we would never.” We want to “other” them. We want to act like they are simply sociopaths, like the Turpin parents. /7

But normal people can be changed by dangerous ideologies. And they aren’t all just sociopaths. Shiny, Happy People said it: “Gothard turned every father into a cult leader and every family into an island.” /8

This is not a Duggar apologist thread. This is about the fact that fundamentalism lies to you and tells you that what you are doing is good, loving, right, and holy. It’s insidious-ness is covered with niceties and grains of truth, but the eventual fruit is rotten. /9

Some Money Talk... Because of how the P4A works, we raise money all throughout the year now, but don't send it out until after the livestream. That means that we can have as much as a million dollars in the bank for over six months. So we put that money in a CD so that it can

People responding to Drew Barrymore making the right decision with “she didn’t do it until she got blowback” are what’s wrong with our country. You make a wrong call, you listen and you correct. That’s not the thing to punish.