Facebook Removing Posts by Heather Cox Richardson...

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'Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) · bsky.app
Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free--'

My Words: May Karma visit Zuck soon.

UPDATE: Folks are reporting that Heather Cox Richardson has now been completely removed from FB.

This is where you can find her:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com: Letters From An American
YouTube: heathercoxrichardson

[rurallib]

1. Zuck can't handle reality?

[SergeStorms]

28. He'd much rather....

handle Trump's genitals.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Facebook: a real free speech advocate.

[NotHardly]

11. Here, you dropped this... :/

[Moostache]

3. At this point, I question anyone still using Twitter and Facebook and Amazon at all.

There are alternatives and the support of abject evil is a stain on your very soul. Be better. Be free.

[Scrivener7]

4. Well said.

[Tickle]

8. question away, cause I'm on Facebook and twitter NT

[SSJVegeta]

16. I still use Amazon. Perhaps I should rethink that.

It is very convenient...

Although I've been very against most social media for years.

[Magoo48]

24. do you drive a car, fly on airplanes, go on cruises, shop at any national chain stores?

Do you watch commercial TV where any of the above hawk their products and services?
Do you buy products packaged in plastic? Do you have any dealings at all with businesses or corporations owned by billionaires?
People living in glass houses should not throw rocks. The vast majorityof the United States population lives in glass houses.

[OutNow]

31. So your solution is???

Of course folks buy stuff from capitalist companies, drive their car around to support their life, etc. Back in the day, some of my friends decided to live on the land rather than work for the man. That lasted about six months. We live in a monopolistic capitalist country. We are the recipients of a terrible health care system, declining career opportunities, a housing policy that squeezes folks into homelessness, etc. etc. We resist as best we can. Folks that contribute to this forum are not the problem.

[Magoo48]

44. My solution is: do the best your circumstances allow.

[johnnyfins]

45. I have completely eliminated 2 of 3.

Once I complete some more hyper inflation preps, amazon will be in my rear view also.

[MadameButterfly]

49. WHat are alternatives to Facebook?

I'd like some help with this

[orleans]

53. i'm not sure. i'm on fb. some friends went on instagram several yrs ago

but that's owned by meta who owns fb too.
then there's bluesky but it's nothing like facebook

that's all i got. hopefully someone else has a better answer for you

[MadameButterfly]

55. I get involved in online training of various sorts and inevitably am referred to a facebook group

to create a community and further our learning. I don't see Instagram or Bluesky providing the same kind of platform.
I admit I don't do any of it on my own--don't know how anyone has the time
But I'd like to participate in some of these groups without supporting Nazis.

Easy to switch from Twiiter/x for Bluesky
So easy not to buy a Tesla
Don't know what replaces Instagram or Facebook.
Apparently there are replacements for Google, just have to do the research and make the change
Getting off of Amazon entirely (and related companies like Abe Books) has been difficult for me. What have people done instead?

Unless there is a concerted movement and help for consumers only the most dedicated and the most tech-savvy will do it. Not enough to create the impact necessary. We need to do to all these oligarchs what is happening to Tesla. It needs to be very expensive to be a pro-Trump oligarch.

[TommyT139]

52. Using facebook is worse than buying from Amazon

...and other places, as bad as they are.

Using Facebook means you hand over your data, snippets of your life. And what's worse, you help them suck up the data of your friends and family even when we are not on facebook or minimize participation. It's all good for the data brokers.

Like the saying goes, if it's "free," you're the product.

[milestogo]

5. Nobody on the left should still be on billionaire-right-book.

[msfiddlestix]

46. As soon as an alternative to facebook ia created and available for anti-fascosts maggots I'm all in.

I personally don't know of anything, but that doesn't they don't exist, I just haven't come across it yet.

[Silent Type]

6. Just checked. There are posts by Richardson including her post saying posts have been taken down. And that post

has over 16,000 comments.

[Mountainguy]

7. Reminds me

Of when every tom dick and Harry on the right was claiming they were being 'shadow banned'

[Tickle]

9. the wheels of justice have turned NT

[Pinback]

56. You're comparing Heather Cox Richardson to "every tom dick and Harry on the right"?

Oh my.

In case you aren’t familiar with her, Richardson is an eminent historian and anything but a whiner or grandstander.

[RandomNumbers]

42. Not exactly my experience today. It was weird.

In my feed, I saw her post claiming that some of her posts were no longer showing on her page. I went to her page and sure enough, the last post listed there was from March 26, I scrolled down and tried to figure out if there was an "innocent" explanation.

I don't see HCR making shit up about this. I saw her post today in my feed (I think the post was from today, but god knows that FB feed is pretty weird already about what shows up from what dates); and then couldn't find her latest posts on her page - posts that I *KNOW* I had seen in my feed before.

So it is possible - and if you watched her live episode today I think she suggested the same - that there is just something weird and unintentional going on with FB. BUT meanwhile, she is letting people know they can always find her stuff at substack. Given what we already know about Zuck, I'm headed over to substack shortly myself.

[maxsolomon]

10. Right at the top of my feed, like usual.

and multiple reposts.

[Hieronymus Phact]

12. Heres the problem

There needs to be a big public whining fest. Media personalities need to pick it up and run with the zuckership label. "silencing liberal voices" should be on the lips of every account, influencer and talk show etc.

For being a bunch of talent-less hacks they do drama so much better than we do.

[bmichaelh]

13. Got banned from Facebook

I signed up for Facebook and never posted.

They sent me an e-mail that if I did not upload my photo, I would be banned.

I did not for privacy reasons and I was undergoing chemotherapy at the time.

[TNNurse]

20. I have never used a photo of myself on FB

Flowers, critters and other such things. I still get goons who ask to be friends because I look so nice in my photo. I block them of course.

[stopdiggin]

58. have never posted a picture of ANY kind on FB.

And have never been 'requested' or 'suggested' over the issue either.

[oberle]

35. My photo

is my lovely iguana, Fluffy, and always has been. I stay on Facebook because there are interest groups I am part of, and friends I have made in those groups.

[WyLoochka]

48. I was too

Didn't know that they asked for so much info, put off looking into providing the responses as I was in the middle of a working day at the time. In 30 minutes got a banned notice.

I only wanted to follow one local site that essentially provides the local news in my teeny tiny rural town.

[SunSeeker]

14. I never miss a post, I'm on her email list. Everyone should be.

Just type in your email address in her subscription box here:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

[soldierant]

30. Me too.

Glad you shared it so I didn't have to.

[LittleGirl]

15. I posted that on Facebook

Those that say I shouldn’t be on it anymore…I’m on DU. It’s my homepage. I get HCR’s emails and forward them to my spouse who is not on social media.
I am not on Twitter, IG, TikTok, Snapchat, WhatsApp or blue sky…etc.
I live 2k miles from my family and have lived further away so it’s the platform we use to keep in touch. Not changing that anytime soon.

[LeftinOH]

17. I just checked - and the most recent post is from March 26th; everything

after that is gone. I have no idea how Facebook works, but the inconsistency is bizarre. Some people see all the recent posts, but I do not.

[h2ebits]

33. Same here.

[C Moon]

18. I started getting posts from MAGA politicians and celebrities on FB.

From out of the blue. Never happened b4. I’ve had to block 1/2 dozen of them.

[vapor2]

39. Apparently a shift in algorithms

[C Moon]

50. Al Gore I wouldn't have blocked.

[aeromanKC]

19. Fuck Zuck!!

[Attilatheblond]

21. Activist pal on FB generally posts a pretty sunset or horse photo with 'Comment below' so as not to trigger MAGA alerts

Seems to work fairly well, if used judiciously when he has something important to share like Heather Cox Richardson or Hartman.

[CTyankee]

22. I don't even know who she is. Can someone fill me in...?

[Lulu KC]

26. She and Andy Borowitz are in my email every morning

I wouldn't be surviving without them. This is the link to subscribe to her daily newsletter. Historian who gives commentary on current events. Brilliant.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

[maxsolomon]

29. History Professor at Boston College.

Writes daily essays on current politics with a historical context. Never hyperbolic, always factual.

[BootinUp]

23. Zuckerberg can't handle the truth. Nt

[Lulu KC]

25. Wow

Sooooo glad I'm not there anymore. Jerks.

[Blue Owl]

27. His shit-caked FB platform has turned into a pro-Musk/pro-Tesla cesspool of free advertising

Fuck Zuck and the billions of blood dollars he rode in on

[Diraven]

32. I stopped visiting when it got taken over by AI

Most of my feed now is obvious bot accounts with AI-written right-wing stories or selling fake right-wing products. It's just not worth it anymore.

[lonely bird]

34. Fercryinoutloud

Zuckerberg is a punk and a piece of shit.

[Martin Eden]

36. I subscribe to Heather's daily email

She is always spot-on putting the current situation in hustorical context.

[spanone]

37. K&R

[barbtries]

38. She's transitioning to youtube as well.

she has a substack. But her following on fb is massive, like over a million.

https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardsonhttps://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

today: https://www.youtube.com/live/fUR3qFTVK2k?si=hApd7ouYlS2hSBLF

i'll have t watch that later because I have been watching Cory Booker for hours and hours and it's been so good.

[TNNurse]

40. We get her emails every morning.

But today's post just showed up on FB

[TNNurse]

47. And it is gone again.

[MaraMc]

41. Re-post?

I’m re-posting her missing article on my FB. Wonder if it will last.

[radical noodle]

43. Good idea. Welcome to DU

[LetMyPeopleVote]

59. Welcome to DU

[SheltieLover]

51. Kick

[AllaN01Bear]

54. cancel culture, censureship

[BobTheSubgenius]

57. I'd like to think that Karma will visit anyone who wears a $900,000 watch.

But I've seen precious little evidence of it, so far.

[SorellaLaBefana]

60. 'Twas just a matter of time

We have her books. Wonder when those will be disappeared as well.
https://bookshop.org/contributors/heather-cox-richardson-ab470631-a289-4ada-90fd-5a1223000853

She's likely our main 'news' source. Even tho some days what she has to say is simply too painful to read. As she's a professor of political history we often learn something of how we have arrived at this point, and how this had been avoided in the past.

One of her powerful recent articles looked at the attempt by Secretary of State Seward (later of Seward's Folly—Purchase of Alaska— fame) to basically take over the government from Lincoln and start a war with *anybody* to convince the secessionist states to return to the Union to fight whatever foreign foe he could conjure up.

On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln. Less than a month after Lincoln had taken office, Seward had little faith in the apparently uneducated president from the raw West and was angry that the Cabinet had overruled him to provision South Carolina’s Fort Sumter rather than evacuating it. Seward was convinced that he, rather than Lincoln, should lead the administration.

Seward complained that Lincoln had not yet established “a policy either domestic or foreign” and said he had figured out the solution to the nation’s political crisis, in which seven states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas—had seceded from the Union in the weeks after Lincoln was elected president but before he took office. “[W]e must,” Seward wrote, “Change the question before the Public from one upon Slavery, or about Slavery for a question upon Union or Disunion.”

The way to do that, he wrote, was to rally Americans around the flag. To do so, he told Lincoln, “I would demand explanations from Spain and France, categorically, at once. I would seek explanations from Great Britain and Russia, and send agents into Canada, Mexico and Central America, to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European intervention. And if satisfactory explanations are not received from Spain and France, Would convene Congress and declare war against them.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2025

At the time, about 160 years ago, this failed. However, the current regime seems determined to try this ploy yet once again. After all, it worked fine a few decades later with the Spanish-American War around the turn of the last century when Gilded Age newspaperman Hearst (may have) said "You supply the pictures, I'll supply the war" after the USS Maine sank in Havana Harbour.

I'm unconvinced that if we invade Greenland (a territory with a population about the same as Carson City, Nevada—around 56/57K) using our military of around 1.3 MILLION active duty members that many (aside from MAGA Cultists) will find this reason to wrap themselves in the Stars and Stripes (well, more would, I think, be happy to wrap themselves in the Stars and Bars)

She is, for the nonce, still on YT as well
https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson