Starting to build views for the 2026 midterms 👀 What kind of functionality would you want it to have?

Agreed 💯

There are 33 people using the latest TestFlight version of @beinformed.app. I have no idea who they are or what they want out of the app, but I hope they're doing alright 👍

The polling average chart is done! It took some effort to reduce the lag when using chart selection, but I think it's in a decent place now (tested in the simulator and my iPhone 13 Pro).

Anyone know how to create the iOS icon shape in SwiftUI? Can I get away with a simple corner radius formula?

Made some tweaks to the poll row UI and added more details to the polling info sheet. Next up is adding some charts! 📊

The polling feature for @beinformed.app is coming along 👀

Designing a new polling section for @beinformed.app. Thoughts?

Following another long silence, Joel summarized what we needed to do next. My description of our lifesaving work had been helpful, and we would need to develop “a very simple way to describe it to the secretary,” he told us. “To be clear, we’re not looking for a laundry list of everything you want to do, you’re going to have to cut things, it’s going to have to be draconian. You’re only going to get things that are priority number one, that is all we’re going to be able to do, so don’t even send up the things that are priorities number two, three, or four.” At that point, Nida jumped in. Out of the corner of my eye, I had noticed her picking nervously at her hands for most of the meeting, and I knew it was just a matter of time before my oft-impatient colleague spoke up. “Can I just clarify one thing?” she asked, not waiting for a response. “This group seems very focused on what GH does to respond to infectious diseases, but we haven’t spoken much about our other lifesaving work. Just as one example, we support lifesaving care to mothers for emergency inter- ventions like postpartum hemorrhaging and eclampsia, two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths. You would also consider that kind of work to fit into our ‘priority number one,’ right?” Another brief silence followed as Joel watched the clock, and it was Paul Seong who broke it. “I’d say that’s more of a number two,” he said dismissively, looking to Joel and Ken for affirmation.

In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.”

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@mykolaharmash.bsky.social In the hero section of appview.dev, is there any way to completely remove the iPhone bezel? I made a promo video with zoom animations and a device bezel (in post above). When exported without a bezel, the zoom animations break (see below). Thanks!

Little promo video of @beinformed.app built with matte.app. Does it look alright?

This bug is not present in 26.5 beta, so I guess I'll just ignore it?

Just spent an hour trying to figure out why an alert action wasn't being triggered. Turns out it works on the iOS 26.3.1 simulator but not 26.4. Not sure if that's a bug or some new intended behavior 🙃

Thanks to data provided by @the-downballot.com, I added a feature to @beinformed.app to track special election performance (specifically, average margin difference compared to the most recent pres. election) and show how that shift has changed since 2017 and how it compares to the House pop. vote.

Join the Informed: Civic Data Tracker beta Available on iOS

I know I haven't been consistent in working on this project, but as midterm elections heat up, @beinformed.app is a great way to stay... well, informed. Elections, campaign finance, polls, congress, and more. testflight.apple.com/join/zKBtrsC5

Is the info in the screenshot below easy to understand? How could it be better organized?

Trump’s Cozy Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is partnering with the industries he regulates in new ways.

1. Sean Duffy donated $1 million to Northwoods Future PAC

2. Richard Uihlein, whose company has lobbied on transport policy, donated $1 million to the PAC

3. Then, the PAC spent nearly $1.2 million promoting Duffy’s son-in-law, who's running for Congress

My manifesto:

The Downballot's special elections Big Board for the 2025-26 cycle

Oh yeah, in case you haven't bookmarked it yet, our special election Big Board is the original recipe. We've been tracking these races like a hawk for a decade—accept no substitutes!

Dems outperforming 2024 presidential results by an average of 13 points.

Open. Closed. Semi-closed. Top-two.🗳️Primary elections aren't one-size-fits-all, and in some states, the two major parties don't even use the same system. Here's how it all works.

What can we learn from a close loss? Kat Abughazaleh didn't win the IL-09 primary. But a 4-point loss may still tell us something important about the direction of the Democratic Party.

the temptation to tweet a dismissive hot take out to perform to your followers how much you hate lefty progressives seriously hampers one's ability to conduct serious analysis of politics

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-can-w...

Limits of fundraising were clear in Harris v. Trump, if not earlier. Raising money isn’t a guarantee of victory or a replacement of other candidate qualities but is still important to be able to do (even when much of the money comes from out of district)

and 3) she raised $3.3 million w/ no corporate PAC money compared to Biss' $2.5 million over a similar time period

As someone who's followed Kat's campaign since launch, the screenshot is pretty inaccurate for 3 reasons: 1) her main experience was as a reporter on right-wing politics for a variety of outlets, 2) a key part of her campaign strategy was to merge campaign events w/ mutual aid to help the district

The Downballot's 2026 election calendar Find the dates for every filing deadline, primary, and runoff for the November midterms in all 50 states—and much more

The first primaries of 2026 are on March 3. The *last* are not until Sept. 15. That's 28 weeks, or 6 months 12 days, or 54% of a year, or a really long-ass time.

Catch your breath. It's a marathon, not a sprint. And bookmark our election calendar.

It’s the little things

The president of OpenAI has donated almost as much to Trump as the DNC has cash on hand www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The Downballot's 2026 election calendar Find the dates for every filing deadline, primary, and runoff this year—and much more

We've just published the most thorough, comprehensive, and easy-to-use 2026 election calendar! We've got every filing deadline, primary, and runoff, all in one handy bookmarkable package. Check it out here -->

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