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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

Audiobook here:

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Audiobook on Libro.fm

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West th...

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is a book everyone needs to read. I am in the last hour of the audiobook, and... wow. I can't recommend it enough.

Hardcover here:
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Check out One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS • From award-winning nove...

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

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. ☕️📚

Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

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 · Jul 12

You save an extra 30% on top of the sale prices when you're a member, but the à la carte prices are great, too. 🩵

Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 12

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. 🩵

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 10

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. 🩵

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Jul 9

📚Friends don’t let friends buy books from Amazon📚

Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 6

👀 Adding Banned Book Club to my inventory order as we speak.

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Jul 5

Book banners always seem confused about how we can call something a ban if the books are still available elsewhere.

I'll put this in a way they'll understand.

When your outreach leader was barred from going within 2500 feet of a playground?

Still a ban even though they sell slides on Amazon.

Screenshot from The Guardian with the headline "Moms For Liberty Outreach Leader exposed as registered sex offender."

Phillip Fisher Jr, who served three years in prison, volunteered at Philadelphia summit for rightwing parental rights group

A Philadelphia-based outreach leader for Moms for Liberty – the conservative parental rights group that is pushing to exclude discussion of gender and diversity from school curricula – has been exposed as a registered sex offender.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Phillip Fisher Jr – a pastor and local Republican ward leader who volunteered at Moms for Liberty’s national summit in Philadelphia this year – pleaded guilty in 2012 to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse involving a 14-year-old boy when he was 25 and living in Chicago.

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 6

I want to "like" this no less than 3000 more times. 👏🏻

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 6

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 · Jul 6

Not yet, thanks for the rec! Adding it to the ever-growing list. 😊

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 4

"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 4

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 · Jun 10

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 · Jun 27

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!)

Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jun 21

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 · Jun 18

Find us, or your favorite local indie, on either of these sites to help keep independent bookstores in your communities. It really does make a big difference for us.

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jun 18

They stand up against book banning.
They amplify marginalized voices.
They would never gut their DEI programs.
They don't send billionaires to space.
They don't sell books as loss leaders to put local bookstores out of business.

In short, they're great and deserve all the love. 🩵

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · Jun 18

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 · Jun 18

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 · May 30

Your post on Threads the other day reminded me. 🤣

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Banned Wagon Books @bannedwagonbooks.bsky.social · May 29

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 · Apr 22

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! 🩵

Libro.fm @libro.fm · Apr 22

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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