The Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "The democratic system no longer works. It's time for a different system: a lottery." #SortitionIL #Lottocracy | Israëlische kwaliteitskrant publiceert artikel over loting. @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social @haaretzcom.bsky.social
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Dutch House of Representatives supports €100,000 budget for research on how to meaningfully embed citizens' assemblies into the representative system. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy | Initiatief van Kröger en Dassen krijgt ruime Kamermeerderheid.
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Dutch member-based broadcaster MAX airs mini Citizens' Assembly series from the town of Woerden on public news station NPO Radio 1 in run-up to next week's municipal elections #SortitionNL #Lottocracy @omroepmax.bsky.social
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Historian and TV-personality Van Rossem publishes interview with leading Dutch sortition advocate Ms. Eva Rovers | In zijn tijdschrift spreekt Van Rossem met cultuurhistoricus en directeur van Bureau Burgerberaad Eva Rovers over het nut van burgerberaden voor de democratie. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy
"We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington."
How to?
Only way: #Sortition #Lottocracy!
Finally, the penny has dropped!
#sortition #lottocracy
Interview with author and leading Dutch sortition advocate Eva Rovers in today's financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad. Among the topics discussed: a Third Chamber in parliament, with citizens drawn by lot. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy @fd.nl
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Landemore's Politics Without Politicians had just come out, as another book about sortition hits the shelves: Democracy's Second Act. #Sortition #Lottocracy
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die Menschheit ist schon seit tausenden Jahren oligarchisch organisiert.
die Afd ist nichts anderes, als eine weitere, autoritärere Oligarchenclique.
was wir brauchen ist ein wirklicher Systemwechsel
losdemokratie.de #Sortition #lottocracy
Dutch translation will be out on February 23rd, Spanish translation in September. #Sortition #Lottocracy
www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/boeken
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Dutch MP Suzanne Kröger (green/social-democrat) fears 'Biden scenario' and advocates for citizens' assemblies. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy
Het degenereren van burgerberaden: eerst zelfaanmelding en dan pas loten. Niet doen! | It's the completely wrong way of doing a citizens' assembly: apply first, lottery later. This time it's the Dutch province of Drenthe that doesn't get it. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy
Civic Assemblies coming up in L.A. (charter reform) and in Akron, Ohio (housing): both cases of apply-first-lottery-later. That's the wrong way around: not a good way to do sortition. #SortitionUS #Lottocracy.
www.unifyakron.org
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Activists target the King's throne in House of Lords, and demand Lords to be replaced with citizens drawn by lot. | Opnieuw protestactie voor burgerloting in VK.
#SortitionUK #Lottocracy #GetLucky
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Thanks for your video! #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky
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Terry Bouricius writes in Jacobin | 14 December 2025 #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky
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Former Philosopher Laureate of the Netherlands @daanroovers.bsky.social yesterday criticized elections, and advocated for sortition, in Huizinga Lecture at Leiden University. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy #GetLucky
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De stad Lexington, Kentucky gaat voor het eerst een burgerberaad houden: over het reglement inzake het stadsbestuur. #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky
Dutch Climate Assembly presents its 13 recommentations to the government and parliament. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy #Getlucky
It might not be inevitable.
If you offer the people a way out of the corrupt elective democracy we have, whilst enhancing our democracy, there may be enough takers to form a majority.
#CitizensAssemblies
#Sortition
#CriticalThinking
#ActiveListening
#DeliberativeDebate
#Lottocracy Antonio Guerrero
Duitse Bondsdag heft commissie voor het organiseren van burgerberaden op | The German Bundestag —House of Representatives— disbands Citizens' Assembly task force #SortitionDE #Lottocracy
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Permanente gelote burgerraad in Oost-België haalt de New York Times | Standing Citizens' Council in East-Belgium is in the New York Times. #SortitionBE #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
Australian economist and CEO Nicholas Gruen recently launched the first of a twenty-episode series of short videos on sortition and citizens' assemblies. #GetLucky #Sortition #Lottocracy
www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/gruen-komt-m...
And another one on the doormat: "De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens' Assemblies" from Min Reuchamps, @welpita.bsky.social & Julien Vrydagh. Can't wait.
@tegenverkiezingen.bsky.social @nicolecurato.bsky.social @antolw.bsky.social @dannicafleuss.bsky.social #democracy #lottocracy #citizenassemblies
"But what did strike me more this year in Brussels than last year in Vancouver (...) was that younger participants seemed keener to hone a more radical approach to rally round." #GetLucky #Sortition #Lottocracy
Nice overview piece of Eva Rovers on Citizens Assemblies: decorrespondent.nl/16317/democr...
#lottocracy #citizenassemblies #democracy @tegenverkiezingen.bsky.social
Elections have killed democracy. Replace them with #lottocracy.
#sortition #demarchy
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In Germany the first lottocratic party has been founded. 20 founding members came to Munich !
@alexgphilosophy.bsky.social @tegenverkiezingen.bsky.social
@nuttlos.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#lottocracy #citizenassemblee #democracy
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New paper of mine just dropped. Think it might be the weirdest paper I've written. But I do get #NerdPoints for Isaac Asimov and Star Trek (TOS and Lower Decks) references. Available open access. ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Co...
#Lottocracy #AI #PhilSky #PhilTech #PolPhilSky
Starting the book ‘Lottocracy’ of @alexgphilosophy.bsky.social today!
#lottocracy #deliberativedemocracy