Trump has issued a document called “National Security Strategy”. As with all things Trump we simply need to ask “Cui bono?”, the Latin phrase which literally means “to whom is it a benefit?” or “for whose advantage?” #art

The Supreme Court feels the need to parse the meaning of “All persons born in USA” Those words are the preamble to equal protection and due process. This is “Ginni’s Ecstasy” - Clarence Thomas and wife Ginni in an exuberant dance atop the ruins of the court and Lady Justice. #art

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

@inkmiamiartfair is 🔥and is open through this weekend. Stop by the @childsgallery suite to see my “I Dissent” series of portraits of the three progressive ladies of our Supreme Court fighting for our rights against the rightwing majority. #art

Visit @childsgallery @inkmiamiartfair for a look at my rogues gallery portfolio, “SCOTUS 6”. Original woodcuts, part critique part satire aimed at our six MAGA Supreme Court Justices. INK Miami Art Fair December 3-7, Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach #art

@inkmiamiartfair is in full swing and if you visit @childsgallery you can catch up on some of my latest prints. This is “Elena Plays the Hand She’s Dealt” from the “I Dissent” series featuring our three progressive Supreme Court Justices. #art

CEO’s take in millions we are subsidizing their workers who are forced to rely on SNAP and other government assistance This is wage slavery and socialism for the wealthy. America has an affordability problem; we can’t afford the billionaires anymore. #art

Republicans have big choices coming due. They all stood by As Donald and Hegseth started their campaign of missile attacks on Venezuelan boats. Now that it comes to light that Hegseth is ordering follow up attacks to eliminate survivors. Trump naturally calls for Democrats to be hung. #art

Time to salvage democracy from these psychopaths. New reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal order to “kill everybody” on a suspected drug-trafficking boat and that, after an initial strike left two survivors in the water, a second strike was ordered to ensure no survivors. #art

Pray that Putin’s Peace Plan goes nowhere. Who’s in charge, developer billionaire buddy Witkoff and Trump son in law, Jared Kushner or our head of the state department “Liddle Marco” Rubio? (who seems blindsided by events) Ukrainian surrender and giveTrump a chunk of frozen Russian assets. #art

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 “Do You Hear the People Sing” now on view at Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

“Broken Promise” - We are failing in our basic humanity. ICE is not detaining and deporting “criminals and the worst of the worst. Instead they are engaging in racial profiling and terrorizing entire communities. #art

DOGE didn’t add up. After promising 2 trillion in savings Musk returned to life as an internet troll leaving taxpayers a huge deficit hole. DOGE has quietly been absorbed by the Office of Personnel Management. Another America First fiasco that leaves the oligarchs richer and us poorer. #art

Charlotte was the latest to deal with masked thugs refusing to show warrants abducting prople Every time hard working, law abiding community members posing no threat are arrested, assaulted, or detained, We the People are hardened in our resolve for a return to the rule of law and due process. #art

Our Art of the Deal president’s 28 point blueprint for peace is nothing more than the Ukrainian surrender. As usual Ukraine isn’t part of any negotiation, nor our allies, nor any input from Congress. Zelenskyy is being very cautious but intimating a split from Washington. #art

Weeks ago Trump was screeching about the violent rhetoric that led to the Charlie Kirk shooting. Yesterday he’s called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. A video went viral from CT. Senator Chris Murphy, calling on anyone and everyone with a voice to “pick a fucking side” #art

🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

And just like that, the Epstein Files became another democratic hoax just like the president whining about Russia Russia Russia. Bondi immediately opened investigation into democrats which triggers the stall mechanism because files relating to ongoing investigations can’t be released. #art

Trump tells reporter not to embarrass Prince MBS with questions about killing reporter Jamal Khashoggi. Trump described K as extremely controversial and a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman Americans have chosen to tune out. A dream scenario for the rise of the authoritarian oligarchy. #art

This print is a section of the Lazarus poem “The New Colossus” that adorns the base of the Statue of Liberty. The text is a powerful symbol of America’s promise of refuge and opportunity for immigrants. This piece is purposely cut in two in protest of the draconian deportation of immigrants. #art

Hey!!! Look over there! The president says it’s another hoax. Epstein is like that Russia Russia hoax. Like the rigged election. “Patriotic tourists” of J6 were persecuted by democrats. GOP continues in lockstep, ignoring everything from self dealing corruption to pedophilia from Trump. #art

This is my latest woodcut in a series focused on individuals, as individual acts of defiance are proving to be more durable protections to democracy. “Mary Frank: Stop the Coup” is a portrait of the artist/activist in her studio as she holds one of her hand painted protest signs. #art

Mary Frank: Stop the Coup. Color woodcut. Portrait of artist/activist Mary Frank in her NYC studio with one of her hand painted protest signs. As institutions and elected leaders fail to meet the moment is ever more necessary for We the People to stand together. #art

Authoritarians need to exert their control over the arts. Authoritarians gain power by turning people against each other and the arts can create communities. Where the arts thrive, creative vibrant communities develop. The printing of my woodcut edition portraying artist/ activist Mary Frank #art

The normal guardrails of democracy: an independent judiciary, the press and a Congress acting as a co-equal branch of government have failed. We are left with the continuing threat of coup via the implementation of Project 2025. This is a portrait of artist/activist Mary Frank in her NY studio #art

It’s obvious that the Arts are a threat to the authoritarian playbook. This piece shows artist and activist, Mary Frank in her studio holding one of her hand painted protest signs. As always my editioned works based on Politics Protest History and Myth are available through Childs Gallery #arts

Why give out SNAP benefits? Why provide affordable health care? Why not build a gilded ballroom for billionaires instead. The president and Republican Congress would rather inflict crippling cruelty on the poor and middle class rather than negotiate. #art

The carving is complete and we are ready to print. This is my portrait of artist and activist Mary Frank. These are the four carved blocks that I’ll be printing from this coming week and with a bit of luck I’ll have an edition that resembles the mockup. #art

While we the people beg for SNAP benefits to feed our children, beg for affordable health care, beg to shelter the homeless, the rich build ballrooms. We deserve better and it is possible in a country where a single company (Tesla) can contemplate a trillion dollar!! payout to Elon Musk. #art

Congrats to Dems across the country as elections are showing a rising tide of frustration at GOP overreach People are fed up with trade wars, higher prices, fed up with military in our cities. People are fed up with “Great Gatsby” parties and ballroom construction while SNAP benefits run out. #art

“Do You Hear the People Sing” woodcut, 2025, 14x20 inches. Get out and vote today. While it’s not a presidential year or even midterms there are plenty of local elections. Every voice counts and every election counts. My woodcuts are available through @childsgallery #art

This fragmented print is a small section of the poem “The New Colossus” that adorns the Statue of Liberty. The text of the poem is a powerful symbol of America’s promise of refuge and opportunity for immigrants. This piece is cut in two in protest of the draconian deportation of immigrants. #art

Trump announced we will resume nuclear weapons testing. It’s hard to square a Nobel Peace Prize with a nuclear arms race. Plus positioning a D Day armada off the coast of Venezuela. Or surging our military into Democratic controlled cities. #art “Atomic Hubris” color woodcut, 16x10 inches 2017

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby #art

Capture the judiciary, blackmail the oligarchs that control the media, strip the military of leadership, reduce Congress to a rubber stamp as a series of “emergencies” must be met with increased state violence. The FBI investigates any opposition and the Department of Justice convicts them. #art

Be prepared for ICE season. My socials are filled with ICE lobbing tear gas at folks who don’t want them in their cities. Masked, without identification or uniforms, detaining citizens, profiling using illegal warrantless detentions to satisfy Stephan Miller’s quotas. #art

#chrismurphy - “We are not living in a functional democracy any longer. It’s not too late to save it, but it’s important to acknowledge we’re not on the precipice of losing our democracy. We are losing it every single day. We are not a functional nation with a rule of law any longer.” #art

I’m a woodcut artist. Imagine what I could have created from all that paneling

Putin calls Trump. T announces No Missiles for Ukraine because of the big impending ceasefire negotiations But Russia won’t agree to a ceasefire while negotiating. Once again Trump is played and Russia launches the latest barrage, more than 400 drones and 20-plus missiles. #art

“That Russia Thing” Last week Trump was all in on finally authorizing the sale of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine… until he got on the phone with Putin. Suddenly off the table until more ceasefire talks can be scheduled. Once again played like a puppet, just like Hillary told us. #art

Trump had this to say about No Kings. “The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those were not representative of the people of our country.” The war on truth continues…. “Consumed by the Never Was” -woodcut #art

8 million small

Contrary to Speaker Johnson and Press Secretary Leavitt this was no hate America rally led by Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals. Instead I saw generations; grandma mom and children, veterans, clever signs and people dressed as frogs. True American patriots.

Saving time between cosplay performances

No Kings II in Old Saybrook. No sign of the America hating, violent Antifa Marxists that Speaker Johnson was seeing. A few MAGA cars went by swearing, flipping birds + one clown driving practically on the sidewalk to intimidate. Why are they so mad? They’re in charge of the entire government.

Got your signs ready for tomorrow’s No Kings protests? This work in progress is part of my Power of People series; portraits of ordinary Americans shouldering the burden of truth to power. This is artist and activist @mary___frank in her studio. #art

This Saturday fill the streets

“When they tell you who they are, believe them” - Maya Angelou POLITICO published leaked messages exposing antisemitic and racist comments in a Young Republicans group chat; calling for gas chambers, expressing love for Hitler, endorsing rape, and using racist slurs. Police state here we come #art

These guys are next in line in our one party rules everything hellscape