Amanda Knox

It's not an option.

And we have to be united

and together support each other and support our own in this moment.

And so I think that as this pendulum, because it's not just people that had a federal job, it's people who consult or law firms or it's an attack on the entire culture and the entire system.

And I think that's the part that is very real.

and is the part that is the most dangerous.

And so you see now attacks on studios.

And so what does that mean about content and studios and ensure that there's diversity, not on the camera, but behind the camera and all of the craftsmen, all of that.

So the attacks now on that, the attacks on universities and funding,

NIH just announced that they are no longer going to have diversity, equity, and inclusion grants, that they don't need that anymore.

Think about research.

So the greater impact, think about all the jobs

that are associated with that.

So I think sometimes when we think about what has happened in terms of these massive jobs that have disappeared, that we think, oh, it's just someone that was working in a federal government office that maybe we didn't need them.

Yeah, we do need them.

But it's also all of the surrounding jobs and industries that also impact them.

Music, concerts, all those things, because there's not the support for all of that.

And I think it's just a moment for us to recognize that we are not in normal times.

And because we are not in normal times, we cannot do... Our resistance can't look like...

you know, business as usual.