Leah Millis

Waiting for the depressed robots

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

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

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

This is the best.
Love the attribution, too!

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.

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

I…

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

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.

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”.

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

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.

It’s not an either or.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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

This is great but also when I was organizing a fund to outfit about 30 freelancers with PPE the cost was about 50k. I didn’t even come close to hitting that.

This.

(The Washington Post fired its photojournalists today, as part of Bezo's demolition of his own newspaper.)

Nike says its factory workers make nearly double the minimum wage. In Indonesia, workers say, ‘It’s not true’ The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with roughly 100 workers in Nike’s second-largest production hub. None said they made anywhere near twice the minimum wage.

Yet another reason newsrooms with serious financial backing are so important: They can simply send staff to see if Nike's claims about working conditions in their factories are true and retain lawyers for Nike's inevitable reaction.

Reread your first comment. The individual talents of 300 people doing good journalism does matter. You’re right that this is not their fault. Words matter.

Thank you for sharing your expertise.

I won’t tag them because they have been having people on social media telling them to kill themselves all day.

No, you didn’t. Say it with your real name, identity to the people who have told interesting, groundbreaking, horrifying, amusing, inspiring stories the last few years. Go ahead and tell them they don’t do journalism.