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 laist.com/news/politic...

The Wikipedia-inspired podcast 'Never knew about this', made by Dutch software developer @teund.bsky.social, devoted an episode to Lottocracy. | Podcast 'Nooit Geweten' aflevering #120: over loting (16 minuten) #SortitionNL #GetLucky www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/nooit-gewete...

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 www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/house-of-lor...

Terry Bouricius writes in Jacobin | 14 December 2025 #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky jacobin.com/2025/12/sort...

Gruen heeft inmiddels zijn 10e korte video online gezet: waarin een voormalige rugbyspeler al na 30 seconden de stekker uit zijn politieke carrière trekt: hij kan de zinnetjes niet uit z'n mond krijgen. Video voor video sloopt Gruen verkiezingen. #Sortition www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHaW...

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 x.com/ChrisIsErbij...

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

Duitse Bondsdag heft commissie voor het organiseren van burgerberaden op | The German Bundestag —House of Representatives— disbands Citizens' Assembly task force #SortitionDE #Lottocracy themunicheye.com/bundestag-ci...

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...

As reported by Eric Bodenstab on X: Fort Collins Mayor reflects on Civic Assembly Success. #GetLucky #SortitionUS #LottocracyUS youtu.be/K2xjUXFFA1s

#SortitionEU #LottocracyEU #GetLucky

Political parties are transforming judicial appointments into partisan weapons, actively eroding long-standing democratic safeguards. With courts becoming ideologically predictable and systems easily manipulated, basic democratic norms are increasingly at risk.

Today in the left-of-center @volkskrant.nl — one of the leading Dutch newspapers — columnist @marcialuyten.bsky.social describes the fall of political parties, and calls for Citizens' Assemblies. #GetLucky #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL

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...

"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

Two days before the general election, one of the leading Dutch newspapers NRC publishes interview with Hélène Landemore on democracy, sortition and citizens' assemblies. Landemore has started working at Leiden University. #SortitionNL @landemore.bsky.social @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The global climate conference in November hosted in Belém, Brazil will make use of a global Citizens' Assembly. #COP30 #SortitionWorld #LottocracyWorld www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/mondiaal-bur...

Just heard a commercial for Eva Rovers' new book being broadcast on Dutch public news station NPO Radio 1; in the commercial she voices support for a Third Chamber with citizens *drafted by lot*. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL #TK2025 libris.nl/a/eva-rovers...

#SortitionCN #LottocracyCN

Two calls for an additional, lottery-based house of parliament in leading Dutch newspapers NRC and Volkskrant, as the new book by Eva Rovers advocating such a Third Chamber hits the shelves. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL libris.nl/a/eva-rovers...

#SortitionUS #LottocracyUS

Hoogleraar staats- en bestuursrecht Wim Voermans zal op do.-avond 18 sep in Tilburg een pleidooi houden voor het permanente burgerberaad. Gratis toegangstickets | Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Voermans will advocate permanent Citizens Assembly in city of Tilburg. #SortitionNL

Leading Dutch advocate for Citizens' Assemblies Eva Rovers publishes article in online Dutch newspaper De Correspondent. Included: a map showing all permanent local and regional councils in Europe with citizens drawn by lot. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL

More on Edmund Griffiths' proposal for sortition in a yet to be founded new left party in the United Kingdom. #SortitionUK @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social @lijphart.bsky.social @nuttlos.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy www.edmundgriffiths.com/newpargetsor...

Former Labour Party and now independent MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced a new left-wing party; possibly with bottom-up approach using within-party sortition. #SortitionUK ukdemocracynetwork.medium.com/uk-democracy... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Pa...

#SortitionDE www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/partij-voor-...

dus de meerderheid denkt niet zelfstandig na? Dit is overigens ook mijn indruk, wanneer ik hier zelfstandig over probeer na te denken. Maar wat zegt dit over de legitimiteit van verkiezingsuitslagen? Meten die dan nog wel inhoudelijke voorkeuren? Of is het een spelletje tussen media strategen?

"It is expected around 20 to 25 people will be recruited via a postal lottery of 10,000 addresses, with the aim of selecting a group that is broadly representative of the wider UK population." #SortitionUK

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Apparently, in August a political party for sortition will be founded in Germany: announcement of founding meeting in Munich. | Aankondiging van oprichtingsvergadering van een partij voor burgerloting in Duitsland. #SortitionDE

Hier het hele interview met David Van Reybrouck in Buitenhof. | 'Democracy in Europe today is a procession of completely worn-out cars' #SortitionNL www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGj1...

Today David Van Reybrouck was interviewed on national Dutch public TV. Very critical of the current system. News: city of Amersfoort is considering setting up a permanent Citizens' Council. | Fragment begint op 50:29 (12 minuten) #SortitionNL npo.nl/start/serie/...

In Texas between 1996 and 1998, eight electric utilities polled customers drawn by lot to determine what energy options they preferred to meet future electric requirement. We could call it a lobby of the customers. #SortitionUS deliberation.stanford.edu/news/deliber...

Today a delegation of the Dutch Climate Assembly paid a visit to the Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber, the 'House of Representatives'), and had a chat with MPs about participating in the assembly. The official recommendations will be handed over in September. #SortitionNL #NBK

NOS Nieuws verzuimt te vermelden dat een geloot burgerberaad vorm gaf aan het Franse wetsvoorstel euthanasie | Dutch public news station @nieuws.nos.nl fails to mention the role of the French Citizens' Assembly on assisted dying. #SortitionFR nos.nl/artikel/2568...

Survey on Citizens' Assemblies, in English, Dutch, German, Italian, and Greek: anybody is welcome to take part. Go to: citizenstakeover.eu/citidem/#con... You'll find the link 'You can participate *here*' just above the header "Events". #Sortition

Terry Bouricius is one of most visionary thinkers on democracy. On this podcast episode, he explains how he discovered citizen assemblies and why he now considers himself a "recovering politician." Check it out! #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #CitizensAssemby open.substack.com/pub/nickcocc...

Third French national Citizens' Assembly will be launched in June and will focus on school hours, and school holidays. #SortitionFR www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Main Dutch centrist-liberal newspaper NRC publishes high-quality discussion between David Van Reybrouck and opposing Belgian journalist Joël De Ceulaer on Against Elections, sortition, and Citizens' Assemblies. #SortitionNL @nrcnl.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

In the province of North-Holland big-business oriented VVD, right-of-center christian-democrat CDA and liberal-democrat pan-European Volt abolish referenda and opt for Citizens' Assemblies | VVD, CDA en Volt N-Holland scharen zich achter burgerberaden #SortitionNL noordholland.vvd.nl/nieuws/57868...

Dutch public-TV evening news reports on the School Assembly on a Dutch vocational school — on the use of mobile phones — but fails to mention that the students and teachers were selected by lot. [at 18m58s] #SortitionNL @nieuws.nos.nl npo.nl/start/serie/...

New post in the Sortition Agora! The Sortition Agora is the place where you can find discussions, think pieces and lively debates on everything to do with the Journal of Sortition! Make your way over to submit a post or add your comments to the discussion 🗣️ sortition-agora.com

Swiss Republic Day (1798) on April, 12th — with on-stage discussion on Democracy and Sortition. #SortitionCH www.tagderrepublik.ch

While the Dutch National Climate Assembly is still underway, another government-initiated national Citizens' Assembly has been announced, by the Justice Department: on the role of social media in public unrest. | Nieuwe burgerdialoog op komst. #SortitionNL www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/upcoming-cit...

Mrs. Eva Rovers, the Netherlands' driving force behind Citizens' Assemblies and sortition, interviewed today in one of the main Dutch newspapers: the left-of-center Volkskrant | interview met Eva Rovers in de @volkskrant.nl. #SortitionNL www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/v...

Belgian author/historian David Van Reybrouck interviewed by the Dutch financial newspaper @fd.nl. Against Elections is mentioned, as are sortition and the East-Belgian Citizens' Council. | Interview met Denker der Nederlanden David Van Reybrouck in het FD. #SortitionNL fd.nl/samenleving/...

Author of 'Against Elections' (and other highly regarded books, for example on Belgian, Dutch, and worldwide colonial history) David Van Reybrouck has been chosen to become the new 'National Dutch Thinker' by Dutch philosophers' foundation. #SortitionNL www.bruzz.be/actua/samenl...