Maggie Heydt

Wildlife conservation, baseball, tennis, & golf fan.

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@JesseRogersESPN Aren’t they playing a double header tomorrow?? #40hangovers

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@sambernero Can you ask her what brand her coat is? #fashiontips

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@PaineofGlass @TipOfTheBanana I think there are wood shavings in the grated Parmesan cheese. I won’t buy it anymore. Only brick & shred it myself.

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@gmalfas @JesseRogersESPN 😆

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@Cubs Not yet! 😳😂

[Defenders of Wildlife @Defenders]

The American Prairie bison herd is here to stay! Last week, a judge halted BLM’s plan to remove over 900 bison from grazing lands in NE Montana.

While the work to restore the American bison to their rightful place continues, this decision is a step in the right direction!

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

Time to say goodbye:

This is a Cerulean paradise flycatcher, one of the rarest birds in the world.

For more than a century it was believed to be extinct—known only from a single specimen collected in 1873—until one was found in the last fragments of its ruined forest in the 1990s.

The few found since live only on the island of Sangihe, Indonesia, where the Baru Gold Corp has finally obtained permission to mine the island.

On September 8, 2026, the CEO, Terry Filbert, issued this statement: "Baru’s team of mining and finance professionals boasts extensive experience in starting and operating gold and coal assets. Baru is positioned to become Indonesia’s next gold producer."

The locals have fought this for years, fearing for their settlements and water supplies, but they and this beautiful and unique little bird don't matter to the Indonesian government as it continues its large-scale environmental destruction.

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@TheHurricaneBen @BNONews 5 people died.

[am in umbria @AmUmbria]

Everyone please contact your representative and ask to vote NO to HR9171. Go to https://t.co/SyQxW42DIf Look to the lower right corner, you will see: Contact Your Member. All you need to do is enter your zip code in the box "Find address", it will take you to your representative and senators. Ask your congressman to vote Nay. Before 9/8/26.

[am in umbria @AmUmbria]

H.R. 9171 — would strip gray wolves of federal protection across the lower 48 states. It cleared committee on June 3. It is on the U.S. House floor calendar right now, and the vote could come any day. It carries 21 anti-wildlife riders — the most ever packed into a single bill in the 52-year history of the Endangered Species Act.
House - 06/05/2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 599. (All Actions)

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

Migratory Bird Annual Status Reports are out now 🦆➡️ https://t.co/7JfH9avUWt

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@Cubs We’re still watching the game! You posted w only 2 outs live…

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@sambernero Sam, please let us know if you see Assad arriving today! 😀🤞 🙏

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@BoyanSlat 😮

[Helping Rhinos 🦏 @HelpingRhinos]

The Indonesian government has announced plans to capture the last known wild Bornean rhino in efforts to conserve the species via IVF. Bornean rhinos are a subspecies of the Sumatran rhino, with just 2 known individuals, one in captivity & one in the wild.
https://t.co/sURxGp21Fd

[Illinois Policy @illinoispolicy]

Voters in four Illinois school districts will decide on over $1 billion in new bond debt this November.

>St. Charles: $282.5M bond ($645/year tax hike on a $500k home).

>Algonquin: $355.5M bond ($101/year tax hike on a $400k home).

>Oswego: $317M bond.

>Mahomet-Seymour: $84M bond.

Illinois is already home to the highest property taxes in the nation. Would the downstream effects of large bond referendums push more people closer to leaving the state?

https://t.co/7gQsN3s5nG

[Daily Herald @dailyherald]

After a two-month delay, Cook County’s 1.8 million second installment property tax bills for Tax Year 2025 are expected to be mailed Sept. 1, county officials announced Tuesday. https://t.co/3IkVN03if8

[Daily Herald @dailyherald]

Tuesday’s Pope Hat Night took on a life of its own, and eclipsed the actual game between the first-place White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds, a rematch of the 1919 World Series that the Sox threw and went down in history as the Black Sox Scandal. https://t.co/Y9YAqO5tH3

[Daily Herald @dailyherald]

All three piping plover chicks named and banded in Waukegan last week have died, the Lake County Audubon Society announced Monday. https://t.co/5alhrU4Ls8

[Maggie Heydt @mah314]

@sambernero Best dressed Cubbie 💯.