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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Heyy. If you're in Colorado Springs and you're looking for a nice cup of coffee while you shop new and used books, with a special emphasis on banned and challenged titles, we've got you covered. Our pop-up bookshop will be at Rohr Coffee from 9am - 12pm this Saturday, 7/19. ☕️📚

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Next pop-up bookshop: 7/19 from 9am–12pm at Rohr Coffee in #coloradosprings New books Used books Banned and challenged books Come say hi, can't wait to see you!

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The @libro.fm audiobook sale is WILD. 8 books for $32? $182 OFF!? AND they're DRM-free?? 🤯 Yes, please! Check out the sale here... every purchase supports our bookstore. We donate 5% of our annual profits to organizations that actively fight book banning in the US. 🩵 libro.fm/sale?booksho...

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The income small bookstores get from Bookshop is SO HELPFUL. It's not some marketing smoke and mirrors thing. They really do support us, and it really does make a difference. They're approaching $40 million raised for local bookstores, and we'd love to see them hit that milestone this week. 🩵

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I need y'all to fully absorb this thread in its entirety.

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

We just launched our online new and used bookstore. While we carry a bit of everything, we prominently feature books that face bans and challenges in the US, and we donate to organizations that fight book bans... because everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in the stories they read. 🩵

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It's a great day to pick up a copy of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder from your local indie bookstore, or borrow a digital copy from your library, or share a copy in your neighborhood Little Free Library. 🇺🇲

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 10/06/2025

Here’s the thing: Independent bookstores aren’t *just* bookstores. They are pillars of their communities and supporting them means supporting all of the incredible work they do beyond selling books. They’re invaluable. Am*zon is not.

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Pop-up bookstore on Saturday, 6/28! Dynamo Coffee, 9am - 2pm. Come say hi, grab some caffeine and gluten free pastries, and buy a banned book or two. 🩵 (We also have books that don't face censorship, so... whatever floats your boat!)

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

New book order just arrived! Catch our micro-bookstore popping up at Dynamo Coffee in Colorado Springs next Saturday, 6/28, 9am - 2pm! We donate 5% of profits to organizations that fight book bans in the US. Can't wait to see you! 🤗

A photo of books, including On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, a leather copy of the United States Constitution, Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson, I'm a Fool to Want You by Camila Soda Villada, Wild Tongues Can't be Tamed (multiple authors), Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, An Indigineous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is just your periodic reminder that @bookshop.org and @libro.fm support your local, independently owned bookstores by sharing the profits with them from every 👏🏻 single 👏🏻 purchase. 👏🏻

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Our next pop-up bookshop will be at Dynamo Coffee in Colorado Springs on 6/28, 9am - 2pm! We're celebrating our 1-year business birthday, and we'll also be launching our online store on the same day. As always, we donate 5% of profits to organizations that fight book bans in the US.🩵

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hi. Sometimes I forget this app exists. Soft launch for our online store is coming soon... followed by a full launch by the end of June! 🤗

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

If you love audiobooks and you're still buying them from that mega-corporation... It's time to give Libro a try, friends. Audiobook purchases from Libro support locally owned bookstores. They have wonderful sales this week to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day (4/26). Consider selecting our store! 🩵

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🩵🩵🩵 Connecting with fellow book lovers is literally my favorite thing to do. Thanks for supporting us, Jenn! We donate 5% of our profits to organizations that fight book banning in the US. You can shop our Bookshop and Libro affiliate stores from our bio link. Our own website is coming soon!

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is exactly why we need to be organized in our defense of the freedom to read. The book banners are organized & we'll funded. But they are also unpopular. Our numbers can beat their money

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Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups, not parents

Last year 72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups and government entities; with just 16% of ban attempts made by parents

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Love this assignment. 🫡 If y'all need a place to start, we have lists of banned books in our bio link. Our little bookstore donates 5% of our profits to organizations that actively fight book bans in the US, and we try to keep our lists as updated as we can. Read what they don't want you to read!

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

DoD students in Europe and Asia are walking out of classes today in protest of Hegseth's book banning and removal of programs that foster inclusivity. DoD students in Germany did it a month ago. Today, students in at least 14 schools plan to participate. #bannedbooks #censorship #dei

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 08/04/2025

Dear librarians: We will always support you, just as you have supported us ❤️⁠

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A few days before National Library Week, Hegseth's office instructed the US Naval Academy to remove all books that "promote diversity, equity, and inclusion." The list of books removed is available in an brief press release posted on the USNA's website. [A large-ish. 🧵]

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Colorado Springs friends... Come see us at Dynamo Coffee tomorrow, 3/30, from 12-3 for a little pop-up bookshop featuring banned and challenged titles! (We'll have some stuff that's not banned, too. 🙂)

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Trying to use this platform more because Meta is a dumpster fire, but it's so quiet over here... I wish there was a way to quickly and easily find all my Threads pals on this platform. If you see this and you oppose book banning & censorship, especially if you're in Colorado Springs, say hi? 🤗

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#coloradosprings Banned Wagon Books is hanging out at Dynamo Coffee today from 12–3! New and used books, many of them that face bans/censorship in the US. Come say hi, get caffeinated, find something to add to your TBR. 🤗📚

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Link in our bio to support our bookstore with your audiobook purchases. We donate to organizations that fight book bans and advocate for libraries. We won't use your money to take joyrides to the moon, or to exploit hundreds of thousands of people. So. There's that. Anyway, @libro.fm is great. 👍🏻

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Colorado Springs friends! Pop-Up Bookshops coming up: Sunday 3/23 & Sunday 3/30 12pm - 3pm Dynamo Coffee on Tutt Blvd New & used banned/challenged books, some genre fiction and non-fic (not banned... yet 🫠), a few blind date books, bookmarks, stickers... come get caffeinated and add to your TBR. 🩵

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#booksellers who ship... talk to me about how you package your books! I'd love to start shipping, but I'm nervous about trying all kinds of different boxes and envelopes when the budget for trial and error is tiny... How do you keep the books safe in transit?

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"Libraries of all types translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used in more than 1.2 billion in-person patron visits every year, and many more virtual visits." —American Library Association This EO is very clearly NOT about money. But it is about access to information. 1/

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Those of us who read Project 2025... we knew it was coming. We knew that censorship would increase. We knew where anti-intellectualism could lead. We knew they'd come after public libraries. I'm unsurprised, but still sick about it. Get loud. Call your representatives. Support your local library.

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

One of these days, I'll remember to take pictures at the beginning of the pop-up shop instead of the end. 🤣 Loved chatting with everyone today, thank you all so much for coming to hang out with us and for supporting our pop-up bookstore!

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thank you for coming to see us! We had a freakin' blast today. 🥰

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Pop-up shop today! Can't wait to see you!! 🤗

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

TOMORROW! Pop-up bookstore and used book exchange! Banned & challenged titles, some books on mutual aid and activism, and some books just for fun... or for dissociation. Y'know. 😉 Come hang out. Also, I am not a chalk artist. Coldwell Banker 2702 W. Colorado Ave A Colorado Springs, CO 2pm - 4pm

Chalk signs, new & used books to the left, used book exchange to the right

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Meta won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book "Careless People" by a former employee. They're actively suppressing content that promotes it. There are 64 people waiting for the audiobook and 56 people waiting for the ebook through our local library.

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Coming up on this weekend's pop-up bookshop... it's been too long, and I'm so excited to see all my people again. 🥹

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Don't ban books. Ban changing the clocks twice a year. Love, A bookseller with a messed up sleep schedule

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Cute stickers by Sprinkles Studios! I'll have a handful of them available for purchase at Saturday's pop-up in OCC! Bring a used book to exchange with new bookish friends, and shop for more new & used books with us. 🩵 3/15 • 2pm - 4pm 2702 W Colorado Ave A Colorado Springs, CO

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Our following is growing here, little by little! Quick reminder - we're a pop-up bookshop in #ColoradoSprings, and we can bring our bookshop to your business. We sell a bit of everything, but especially feature banned/challenged books. We donate to organizations that fight censorship in the US!

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI?...

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Les Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army Chorus

YouTube video by The DailyFAFO

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#bannedbooks by #BlackAuthors quote of the day: "The truth does not change whether it is seen or unseen, it whispered in her mind. A thing which is happening happens whether you look at it or not. [1/2]

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I'll just leave this here.

The cover of Jason Stanley's book "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future."

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

...the character limit here is killin' me. I'm just a small business owner, standing in front of an app that's not Meta or X, asking it to give me the text space that Threads does. 🥲

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Banned Books Black Authors quote of the day: “White supremacists love what America used to be, even though America used to be--and still is--teeming with millions of struggling White people. [1/3]

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Banned books by Black authors, quote of the day: "She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop." —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

COLORADO BOOK LOVERS! 💙 There is a very important hearing tomorrow (Monday the 10th) in the Colorado State Senate about SB63, the new freedom to read in school libraries bill. Please go to www.saveschoollibrarians.org/sb63_colorad..., put in your address, and make your voice heard. 🧵

saveschoollibrarians.org

SEND AN EMAIL: Protect the Freedom to Read in Colorado School Libraries

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Banned books by Black authors, quote of the day: Also, the problem is, when you think you’ve been without monsters for so long, sometimes you forget what they look like, what they sound like, no matter how much remembering your education urges you to do.

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