The world is being held hostage by a dementia riddled psychopath. (""NANNY'S BOY 2020", 17"x15.5", charcoal&pencil on paper, commissioned art, ©LaurieLipton)

People are acting like they've never seen a 79 yr old s*xual predator wake up on Easter morning, snort some Adderall, & insult 2 billion Muslims while threatening war crimes against a country he illegally attacked to distract you from the Epstein Files before! ("Post Truth 2017", ©LaurieLipton)

#EasterSunday Merry Bunny + Egg Day! Formerly known as the celebration of the goddess Eostre 🐇🥚 ("COOKED", charcoal & graphite on paper with Photoshopped chocolate rabbit + eggs, ©LaurieLipton)

You can't bomb your way out of the Epstein Files‼️ ("HERE COMES THE BOOGEY MAN 2002", charcoal on paper, 21.5"x18.5", ©LaurieLipton) #WarCrimesWontHideSexCrimes

In the USA right now, this Friday is not so good ("COLLATERAL DAMAGE", 39"x34", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #GoodFriday2026

This entire administration is a criminal organization‼️ Market manipulation & insider trading, bribery, protecting pedophiles, obstructing justice when ICE kills innocent people: just some of the crimes against America, benefiting greedy Donny ("MANUFACTURE", charcoal & pencil on paper, LaurieLipton)

“It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled “- Mark Twain (“ICON 2003”, 36”x27”, charcoal and graphite on paper, Laurie Lipton) #aprilfools #trumpsupporters #drawingoftheday

I tried to embrace my inner child today, and the little asshole BIT me‼️ ("THE CHILD WITHIN 1995", pencil on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

"The problem isn't a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind"-Bill Hicks ("Weapons of Mass Delusions", charcoal&graphite on paper,©LaurieLipton)

"Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage"- Theodor W. Adorno (drawing "AMERICA!! AMERICA!!" after the January 6 insurrection)

The fact that people need a dead man’s files to believe dozens of living women tells you everything you need to know (“CLUTCHES 2003”, charcoal and graphite on paper, ©Laurie Lipton) #warcrimeswonthidesexcrimes #tuckfrump🖕 #lockhimupalready‼️

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"- Alice Walker ("DELUSION DWELLERS 2007", 38"x48", ©LaurieLipton) #NoKingsDayMarch28th #ProtestLikeYourLivesDependOnIt

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything ("Info Glut 2010", 20"x23", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #NoKingsMarch28th

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything ("WE NEVER WATCH THE NEWS 2026", 23"x34", graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #NoKingsDayMarch28

I just want people to accept me for who I pretend to be (“I’M FINE, THANKS 2018”, 5ft4”x7ft, charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything ("DISCONNECTION 2026", 30.25"x33.5", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #NoKingsDayMarch28

When reading contradictory statements from the POTUS and Iran, I tend to believe Iran. How did THAT happen?? 🙄 ("MOUTHPIECE 2017", 37.5"x56.75", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #iranwar

"There will come a time when the rich own all the media, & it will be impossible for the public to make an informed opinion"-Albert Einstein ("HAPPY 2015", 6ftx9ft, charcoal&graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton")

Instead of changing the requirements for voting, we should change the requirements for the Presidency ("ICON 2003", 36"x27", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #thesaveamericaact

Hot off the drawing board: “DISCONNECTION 2026”, 30.25”x33.5”, charcoal and graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #artforsale

We are witnessing the twisted, ugly fruit of 20+ years of Fox News weaponizing ignorance & hatred ("PRIME TIME 2007", 26"x23", charcoal & graphite on paper)

Iran supposedly killed 46 Americans, so we spend $1 Billion/ a day bombing them. But, over 1,000 times that many Americans die every year because they have no health insurance. Wouldn't it be better to spend that $1 Billion here⁉️ ("PharmaSuitAbles 2025, charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

There is a mountain of evidence about powerful men in the USA r@ping children, and the only person in prison is a woman ("DOLL 1999", 24"x15.5", pencil on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #lockthemallup

"I was ashamed of myself when I realized that life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face"- Franz Kafka (“MASK 2008", 34”x23.5”, charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

If you're wondering why some people still support Pedolf Shitler: Trump approval rating 27%, Adult US Illiteracy Rate 28% ("POST TRUTH 2017",4ft10"x8ft9", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

Happy #fridaythe13th everyone!!🐈‍⬛ ("Pussy 1988", 39"x27.5" pencil on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

Next week has been stressful ("THE SCREAM 2026, 19.5"x26.75", graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

"In a world of insanity, it's the strong that go crazy & the weak that just go along"- Assata Shakur ("FOLLOWERS 2020", 3ft8"x5ft9", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

LET'S DO IT‼️ (please share)

#workinprogress✨ What I’m working on now: “DISCONNECTION 2026”, 30.25”x33.5”, charcoal and graphite on paper, work in progress, ©LaurieLipton

Do you know what could have prevented the hell that is our current reality? Believing women ("JUSTICE 2024", 34.5"x52.5", charcoal & graphite on paper, commissioned art, ©LaurieLipton)

You can't afford rent. You can't afford groceries. You can't afford to get sick. They found a billion dollars a day for bombs. The money exists. They just decided you don't deserve it ("INHABITANT", 20"x18", pencil on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

"You become political when you can no longer endure the world"- Marguerite Duras (drawings by Laurie Lipton)

💥RUSSIA'S ENDGAME: make the USA, through a compromised president, destabilize the world, lose all its allies from tariffs & threatened invasions, stifle the truth by buying up media, and weaken the US economically, socially, and militarily, making it ripe for invasion ("POST TRUTH", detail, drawing)

The world burns while we scroll ("SCROLLING 2024, 41.75"x32.5", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

If no mentally disturbed person should have an assault weapon, should a mentally ill President have an army⁉️ ("POST TRUTH 2017", 4ft10"x8ft9", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #releasetheepsteinfiles

“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it”- Lily Tomlin (“FACING UP TO REALITY 1989, 19”x21”, pencil on paper, drawn with my left-hand + the cartoon drawn with my right) #lockhimupalready‼️

A Nation that can fund war instantly but debates funding healthcare has a values problem, not a budget problem (“THE TERRORIST “, 3ft2”x4ft8”, pencil on paper, Laurie Lipton) #iranwar #releasetheepsteinfiles‼️📂📸

Me blocking all the assholes saying they support this war ("MESSAGING", 37"x52"/93.9x132cm, charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

TRUMP STILL POLLING WELL WITH WORKING-CLASS AMERICAN PEDOPHILES 🇺🇸 (“Mouthpiece 2017”, 37.5”x56.75”, charcoal and graphite on paper, Laurie Lipton) #lockhimupalready‼️

We are destroying ourselves and calling it "progress" (“SMOKE 2023”, a triptych with doors that open, 6ft10”x20ft, charcoal and graphite on paper)

🇺🇸The USA is undoubtedly a country where a small group of wealthy, politically connected people are protected by the law but not bound by it, & where the rest of us are bound by the law, but not protected by it ("COLLATERAL DAMAGE 2005", 39"x34", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

I'm trying to quit social media to focus on substance abuse ("SCROLLING 2024", 41.75"x32.5", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) #socialmediaaddiction #doomscrolling

"I'm not telling you to make the world better. I'm telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, but to live in it. To look at it. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work & take pride in it. To seize the moment"- Joan Didion ("RESURGUM", pencil on paper)

#HappyLunarNewYear 🎆🔥 Welcome to the year of the Fire Horse ("4TH HORSIE OF THE APOCALYPSE 1986", 33" x 27", pencil on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

#presidentsday🇺🇸 WE NEVER NEEDED “PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY” UNTIL WE HAD A CRIMINAL AS A PRESIDENT (“POST TRUTH 2017”, 4ft10”x8ft9”, charcoal & graphite on paper… currently on show at The Torrance Art Museum, 3320, Civic Center Drive, Torrance,CA 90503, until Feb 21, 2026) #lockhimupalready‼️

I didn't grow up reciting "with liberty & justice for all" every morning at 7am just to be called "radical" for actually wanting liberty & justice for all ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25”x46.25”, charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)