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Photojournalist Washington, D.C. Spirit resides in Colorado www.leahmillis.com

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Descriptive language is important, IMO that is the way to do it. Outlets cannot use legal terminology like “assault” until someone is charged, FYI.

05.03.2026 17:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Generally, I wont even eat a free snack at a big event. Someone’s home? Sure.

02.03.2026 07:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yet again, I am begging y’all to credit the content you are sharing. Aside from it being the right thing to do, in this day and age, it really helps with media literacy and AI fakery. The CNN watermark is not enough, IMO. Took me abt 30s in Google to find Kenny Holston/NYT/Pool

25.02.2026 18:51 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Uncalled for.

24.02.2026 16:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fall breaks! Super valuable to know for all situations that can cause you to fall.

24.02.2026 01:53 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Hey look. Journalism doing its thang.

24.02.2026 01:49 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Big issue is also most people have zero idea how daily journalism happens and who are the journalists doing it.

17.02.2026 01:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Waiting for the depressed robots

16.02.2026 00:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's been a rough week, here's some stickers. OG news people get it.

13.02.2026 04:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I don’t watch TV very much but am watching what I can of the Olympics. There are sooo many bad AI commercials.

13.02.2026 05:38 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's been a rough week, here's some stickers. OG news people get it.

13.02.2026 04:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This is the best.
Love the attribution, too!

10.02.2026 18:05 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is why sometimes in the middle of a dynamic situation you may hear or read “law enforcement” without the specific agency or dept in msm until we can verify/figure out who is who.

07.02.2026 22:57 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Who has MacKenzie Scott’s number? Time to start a rival paper and hire off anyone still at WaPo.

07.02.2026 22:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I…

07.02.2026 22:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Same to you. It’s such a high price, but I would do it again.

07.02.2026 04:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lost my dog, my good girl, three days ago. They don’t mean to, but they take part of our hearts with them when they leave.

07.02.2026 03:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Caption continued: The video was deleted and the president later told reporters he hadn’t seen the ending, but that he “didn’t make a mistake”.

07.02.2026 03:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
U.S. President Trump is lit white with a flash as microphones from media hover below him while he responds to questions as snow falls around him after dark. Marine One sits ready behind him to take him to Air Force One, onto Mar-A-Lago.

U.S. President Trump is lit white with a flash as microphones from media hover below him while he responds to questions as snow falls around him after dark. Marine One sits ready behind him to take him to Air Force One, onto Mar-A-Lago.

Before boarding Marine One for travel to Mar-A-Lago, President Trump speaks to members of the media hours after posting a racist video clip portraying former President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes on his social media in Washington, DC, Feb 6, 2026. Photo: Leah Milis for Reuters

07.02.2026 03:13 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

The photo team was incredible. One of the gems of the paper and known for their work across the industry. It’s incomprehensible that they are gone. A sound business decision? I think no.

06.02.2026 20:27 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

It’s not an either or.

06.02.2026 06:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With all due respect, I would need some sources/evidence.

06.02.2026 02:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Helpful things about msm: unethical behavior gets you fired and/or blacklisted. It takes longer because we must verify any claim we make, including how to spell your dog’s name. Big companies can pay for equipment, time, lawyers, travel, health insurance.

06.02.2026 02:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listen, we need everyone. We need independent journalists, activist journalists, mainstream media (yes I said it), citizen journalists. Everyone has a place in the ecosystem of a free society.

06.02.2026 02:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Unfortunately we have been absent from social media as it has matured, leaving a vacuum filled by opinion pieces and TV personalities. Most of the public do not know the majority of us are just hard working, traumatized, underpaid people who just deeply believe in journalism.

06.02.2026 02:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

It feels good to have a consistent, simple villain. Makes people feel like there is order and meaning in the world. Not saying there aren’t major systemic issues w msm, but the bashing is actually damaging. And as a photog I often take the heat in real life.

06.02.2026 02:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the  
@washingtonpost
 sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing.

Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the @washingtonpost sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing.

. @nickijhabvala.bsky.social: "Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the @washingtonpost.com sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing."

06.02.2026 00:48 👍 439 🔁 151 💬 21 📌 17

Actually there is a good portion that has to do with budget and burn out. It’s not as conspiratorial as you might think.

06.02.2026 01:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

You’re right, though. We can’t just keep pushing the last bits of money we have at each other while the ultra wealthy keep taking more and more of it.

06.02.2026 01:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This isn’t even a gofundme, it’s non profits throwing in funds. My gofundme made about 3k. So I had to ask the journalists which piece of gear they needed the most. I was able to give out a few soft armor vests, one helmet, like 10 IFAKs, some safety glasses… a first aid kit alone costs about $100

05.02.2026 23:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0