Ted Brennan

Mayor of the Borough of Merchantville. Husband to a wonderful wife and Father to 4 great kids. Love Merchantville and Philadelphia sports.

[South Jersey Food Scene @SJfoodscene]

Added details about Eclipse Brewing and Da'Villas Ice Cream who are participating in Merchantville Summer Restaurant Week this week. https://t.co/nLPLHMbcRc

[Camden Catholic Basketball @IrishGBB]

Couldn't be more excited for our rising Senior @CBrennan2027 on her offer from @LoyolaWBB!!! Well-deserved for such an elite student-athlete! Keep up the great work, Car! 👏💚🤍☘️🏀 #GoGreyhounds #GoIrish

[Ted Brennan @mayortedbrennan]

@yopauly41 @FOXSports @ClayTravis @USMNT A joke

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Ted Brennan @mayortedbrennan]

Keep working hard and controlling the controllables @CBrennan2027!

[Andrew Robinson @ADRobinson3]

Spent Saturday out at Spooky Nook for @hooplove215 covering some of the Prime Event East
Write-up from the day is up on the site now:
https://t.co/B3NzuMqhws

[Lady Runnin Rebels 2028 @2028rebels]

Congrats to @mbrennan2028 on this well-deserved recognition! @LadyRunnin

[Caroline Brennan @CBrennan2027]

Excited for this weekend’s live period in Louisville with @LadyRunnin !
Come check us out!
@IrishGBB

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Americans: Please do something about the fucking economy. It sucks.

Trump: I’M PLANNING A UFC FIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!! WEEEEEE!!

[Ted Brennan @mayortedbrennan]

@people @CMMAGIC - just like you talked about last night in Miami!

[Caroline Brennan @CBrennan2027]

So excited for the first live period of the season with @LadyRunnin ! Come check us out!
@IrishGBB

[Ted Brennan @mayortedbrennan]

What dimension of chess is this? Our country has lost all credibility in the international community. Trump has made us a joke and thrown away centuries of diplomatic relationships and development of operating agreements and traded it for dangerous and chaotic rhetoric.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[Ted Brennan @mayortedbrennan]

Wake up Congress! Stop posting on social media and take real action, not performative politics deemed to save your seat in the next election! We have a war criminal in the White House and you’re complicit. If Trump follows through on his threats, there won’t be another election.

[The Factor Report @PeterLBrandt]

I've traded futures markets for five decades. There is ZERO doubt in my mind that Trump money was behind this buying.

There is NOOOOO law that prevents the Trump machine from manipulating futures markets. Inside trading is legal

Trump family fortune grew today. Trump is playing markets like a fiddle

[The Dividend Dream on YouTube @DreamDividend]

As investors, we should ask our government to track down who this was, how they got the information, and prosecute all involved.

It’s insider trading.
And it’s illegal

There was definitely someone inside the gov involved. So who was it?

We demand an investigation.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[Jaimie @mountainwesttax]

Trump’s SEC chair prevented the head of enforcement at the SEC from investigating Trump’s circle for insider trading and she resigned over it

[Seamus Bieg @SeamusBieg]

Here are both my midseason highlights + end of year highlights.
Final stats: 22.2 PPG, 4.8 RPG, 3.2 APG . Thank you to @IrishBasketbal4 for an amazing 4 years.

[Congressman Donald Norcross 🇺🇸 @DonaldNorcross]

I encourage all New Jerseyans to stay home and off the roads during this winter storm. There’s no such thing as being overly prepared. Get the latest weather updates and safety information here: https://t.co/2Z0m3JvQZr