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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 07/10/2026

Great to be at #WorldSummitAI🚀 striving to #FreeTheFuture — together!🤝 In the Age of AI, let’s keep this in mind.⚓️ We’re “Not a Number”.✊ Watch my ode to Dad, the veteran newshound who asked the question himself, & discover #CivicAI.🌱 ▶️ civic.ai/ #LLAP🖖

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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These guys — Nico Agosta and Daniel Lobo-Lewis of the Political Integrity Project — are my heroes. I was so happy to have them on our podcast, #AnotherWay. #EqualCitizens Watch and share! youtu.be/wEPUisHM-vM?si=WdnXyuh5R5N…

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FIDE - Europe @europe.fidemocracy.org · 11h

Start planning your Forum agenda ✏️ 35+ sessions in Vienna, Nov 17 to 20, built by and for the community moving citizens' assemblies from pilots to lasting practice. Seats are limited: register early to build your agenda 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Program 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1z4RA...

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Involve @involveuk.bsky.social · 10h

Years of bringing people into decision-making have shown us that the public are brilliant at finding fixes to problems. Excited to launch the Small Ideas Initiative today with @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com and @nestauk.bsky.social. Read more and submit your ideas by 12th Nov 👇

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solarpunkpress.bsky.social @solarpunkpress.bsky.social · 10h

Sortition pulls everyday folk into power, cracking open the stuffy rooms of hoarded wealth. It's the kind of world The Solarpunk Society imagines, where random selection replaces career politicians. The Solarpunk Society by Gingerbeard, out 3 November. thesolarpunksociety....

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小林卓人｜KOBAYASHI, Takuto @tkbys92.bsky.social · 8h

My article has just been published (Open Access) on the Japanese Journal of Political Science! It was initially a paper on how representative political systems might be reconciled with social equality, but after many roundabouts it's now a paper on the election/sortition debate. Hope it interests!

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Chandler Patey @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 5h

We need to stop begging elected oligarchs to pretty please defy the momentum of a system which rarely does what we want it to. Democracy is not when we beg. Tgere is a better way to do democracy, a way that is proven to produce better outcomes. A way that is easily accomplished without a revolution

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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If companies aren't planning on using your personal data to set individual prices, why are they filing patents to do exactly that? 🤔 Watch @lindsayowens.bsky.social on @cnn.com with @audiecornish.bsky.social explain how companies can change prices in a nanosecond based on your personal information.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 06/10/2026

Sortition a large* sample of the city every 4 years → make them fill out compulsory opinion polls for a term → repeat *n=hundreds or thousands?

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Lurker Envoy @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jury duty but for urban management and policy problems

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Lurker Envoy @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

City government does seem likely to be most viable context for sortition imo

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like most day to day stuff should be sortition and experts

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Cali Daughter @calidaughter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Markets is better! Currently, the U.S. system is inherently undemocratic. New methods such as ranked-choice voting, sortition, randomly generated representation, may have better outcomes for all. Deciding policy by vote has its flaws, but it's possible that there may be a better way. If you put

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

sortition

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Pirate Redux @pirateredux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, many roles in Athens in the "golden age" of democracy were appointed by sortition - basically the same as pulling lottery or bingo balls - from among the eligible citizenry. Can't help think that it's worth trying that...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gee, I wonder if there are other ways to get people to accompany you...

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Certainly not the ones with power, no more than the Republicans are. Republicans with power are allies of their most extreme base. Democrats with power are allies of a DC-centered neoliberal social order that is collapsing in on itself. Very few elected pols are true allies of the people.

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patrick @ptpower.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The monetization of AI-generated polarizing rage-bait videos...

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How to rage bait Americans

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Chandler Patey @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We really need to just abolish the supreme court. Idk why we are clinging onto institutions which basically never work. There's nothing even remotely democratic about a supreme court. We could just use sortition to select a large jury. Judges shouldnt be writing the law, we should.

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Chandler Patey @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We've gotta stop calling it corruption. The US government has produced extremely consistent outcomes for its entire history. Every step of progress in our history has been the direct result of mass pressure AGAINST the government and the rich men who own our economy. We must build a real democracy.

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Chandler Patey @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have you ever heard of sortition or deliberative assemblies?

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Arturs K @arturismi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Šis, bet Zuzāna ideja ir rēcīgāka. :D en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

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Sortition - Wikipedia

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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good prompt for my "civic organisations like parties should make more use of sortition and citizens assemblies" pitch. Has own problems but is both anti "cosy elite decision making" and anti "people with very intense preferences win a lot".

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岡﨑晴輝（OKAZAKI, Seiki） @okazakiseiki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Landemore, Hélène (2020) Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press. aktiv3.sblo.jp/article/1918...

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岡﨑晴輝（OKAZAKI, Seiki） @okazakiseiki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

山口晃人（2025）『エレクトクラシー・エピストクラシー・ロトクラシー ――代表制デモクラシーを再考する』名古屋大学出版会。 The book Electocracy, Epistocracy, and Lotocracy (2025) is a published version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Tokyo.

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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tomorrow night in #NYC: I'm debating Ilya Shapiro about "money in politics" — 6:30pm. Join the fun! luma.com/6v8dsd4x?lm_source=embed

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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tomorrow at 6:30pm in #NYC, I debate Ilya Shapiro on "money in politics." Join the fun! luma.com/6v8dsd4x?lm_source=embed

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FIDE - North America @north.america.fidemocracy.org · 05/10/2026

Our first ever Impact Report is here! Since launching in January 2024, we’ve been working alongside a growing community to strengthen the practice of citizens’ assemblies across North America. This report is a snapshot of what we’ve built so far, and of the people and work making it possible.

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Election 2024 caught three flavors of public opinion (if you don't count the number of third-party voters). Are we truly satisfied with this level of nuance in our political system? (There's a much better way to capture the wishes and desires of the people. It's called #sortition.)

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Assemble America @assembleamerica.org · 07/04/2026

'If we actually want a democracy that reflects the thoughts of the country as a whole and delivers for everyone, we need to stop designing institutions around the “natural leaders.”' #democracy #citizenassemblies #sortition www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...

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Opinion | No Shy Person Left Behind

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Assemble America @assembleamerica.org · 08/07/2026

Terry Bouricius has a new book out, Democracy Without Politicians. Listen to him explain why sortition--random selection of representatives--is actually democratic, not electing politicians. youtu.be/5ysFjMDouYs?...

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Hoping to Fix Elections is a Dead End: Sortition is the Real Fix

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Assemble America @assembleamerica.org · 10/07/2026

Over here!

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Giant Blue Anteater @kyre-fiskrof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Electoral systems seem to be doomed to this cycle. I want people to look into the idea of sortition, where power lies in a representative sample of the citizenry brought to assembly — like jury duty, rather than self-serving elites. Electoralism is oligarchic. Sortition is democratic.

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Chandler Patey @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah if voting for democrats could reverse the trend, we wouldnt be where we are now lmao. Shit, if elections solved anything, we wouldnt be here. A republic is not a democracy. When 99% of politicians are malicious or incompetent, it's clear the system doesnt work. We cant keep begging for change.

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MrLiquid @mrliquid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So hard to get proper accurate representation in parliament via democracy. We have tried for over 100yrs and not once did parliament accuratteflect the populace. It's always loaded with rich white men #sortition would sort that on day 1 Sortition, a better way to choose

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Chandler Patey @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If elections changed anything, we wouldnt have gotten where we are. I say this as someone who votes for every level of election. We cant keep hoping for uncommon exceptions to suddenly become common. The purpose of a system is what it does. There is a better way to do democracy. A way that works.

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Sophia Carter @sophia173.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The purpose of a system lies in what it actually does. If you're tired of political incompetence or corruption, consider sortition. There may be more effective ways to achieve democracy, as a republic is not necessarily a true democracy.

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Fusion Party Australia @fusionparty.org.au · 03/10/2026

Party factions, donors, and insiders control the gate. Most of us only meet the candidate after they're already endorsed.

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Fusion Party Australia @fusionparty.org.au · 03/10/2026

Your vote matters. But the most important decision in Australian politics, who gets to be a candidate, happens behind closed doors.

Fusion Party graphic: Democracy begins before the ballot box

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Note: SortitionUSA is proud to have Professor Landemore on our Advisory Board.

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yale Political Science Professor Hélène Landemore explains why the era of #elections is ending and the age or #sortition as the engine of #democracy is (or should) be at hand. #populism youtu.be/dMFh8uD6JrY?...

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How to have politics without politicians

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How does #sortition solve the (mis)information problem an anti-democratic poll test certainly would not? Watch this TEDTalk for a quick answer to this question. #democracy #elections #politics youtu.be/cUee1I69nFs?...

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What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people? | Brett Hennig

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Sortition provides a means for this change to happen in a way that enhances #democracy, the rule of all of the people, even misinformed people. #directdemocracy #elections youtube.com/shorts/3L3px...

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Why not #directdemocracy ? #sortition

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Sortition USA (formerly Democracy without Elections) @sortitionusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Elections have to rely on an irremediably imperfect information distribution system that different voters access differently. The solution is not to put up a roadblock in the form of a poll test. The solution is to change the way democracies function so participants have equal access to information.

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was presenting on the shortage of politicians from the working class at an Ivy League school, and one of the faculty said during Q&A that it would be good to have literacy tests for candidates because it would keep workers out and silence concerns about worker officeholding. Food for thought.

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Bürgerrat @buergerrat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wenn nicht darauf geachtet wird, dass manche Menschen aufgrund mehrerer Merkmale zugleich benachteiligt sein können, können bestehende Ungleichheiten auch in Bürgerräten fortbestehen oder sogar verstärkt werden, warnt @eu-ciembly.bsky.social in einer Studie. cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

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Wie echte Inklusion in Bürgerversammlungen Realität wird

Im Rahmen von EU-CIEMBLY wird ein bahnbrechendes Dossier veröffentlicht, in dem die EU dazu aufgefordert wird, Intersektionalität in...

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FIDE - Europe @europe.fidemocracy.org · 02/10/2026

The first cohort of our Lead Facilitator Masterclass is complete! Practitioners from 17+ countries learned to lead a citizens' assembly and built a community that will carry deliberation forward. Reflections from Martin and Oleksandra. 👉 fidemocracy.org/deliberative-facilitation-training

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