The Realist Guild

Organized disorder beats a scattered response. The Realist Guild gives those who refuse both the structure to prevail.

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

We are living in challenging times. Those who have put what is true & good at the top of the hierarchy of goods will know that, for as long as most of us can remember, the world around us has been in steady decline.

This is the institutional response.

https://t.co/Y5WXkGXD0I

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

The regret rate of sex rejecting procedures is something we discuss, because the studies that address this are actually weak. Older adults, lots of loss to follow up, mostly biased.

But taking away healthy functional organs—including breasts—is always harm. Definitionally.

[TheUnmitigatedAss @UnmitigatedAss]

@OnlyFormHolds @RealistGuild I Do > IQ

[Orv @Orv4Good]

Plus, today’s education lacks realism and poorly forms the intellect to cooperate properly with conscience, further elucidating why passions rule so many.

@RealistGuild

[Anchor Foundation @Anchor_Found_HQ]

Politics is the art of the possible, but that doesn’t mean that if you are unable to “fix” an issue (that term is used very loosely for this post because there aren’t really solutions only trade-offs), you should go around and say stupid things like adjusted for inflation gas prices were higher previously, or maybe instead of beef you should try eating veggie burgers, etc. That will get you nowhere with voters.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

“It’s not happening” has gone from “it’s happening a lot” to “it’s happening a LOT.”

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

I literally—actually literally— don’t understand how people can’t think through principles.

“Why does it matter if some kids regret their castration?”

I dunno, cuz it would be a lifelong horror for them? Maybe that?

“But it’s so few kids.”

Huh?

[The Pissed Off Lawyer @legaltweetz]

This week, I filled out an application to become a parishioner at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

The timing feels almost impossible.

Shrine was founded in 1926.

I am joining in 2026, during its 100th year.

A century ago, this place was just beginning. The parish was dedicated to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who had only recently been canonized. Its first church was a small wooden building.

Shortly after it opened, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross outside.

The response was to build a cross they couldn’t burn.

The enormous Charity Crucifixion Tower was completed in 1931, rising 104 feet above Woodward Avenue with a 28-foot figure of Christ.

The original wooden church burned in 1936.

But the Shrine remained.

The extraordinary Art Deco church we see today was constructed between 1929 and 1936. At its center is an 18-ton altar carved from a single block of Carrara marble. The first Mass celebrated upon it was Christmas Eve 1936.

The decades kept passing.

In 1998, the United States bishops formally designated the church a National Shrine.

Then Rome entered its history directly.

On December 23, 2014, Pope Francis granted Shrine the title of Minor Basilica, a papal distinction given to churches of particular historical, architectural, liturgical and pastoral importance.

And now, during its centennial year, I walked through those doors while finding my own way back to the Catholic faith.

Then I filled out the parish registration form.

There are moments in life when filling in a few ordinary blanks on a piece of paper means much more than it should.

This was one of them.

Name:

Erica Hendrix Moise.

Sex:

Female.

I used Erica, my Christian name - the name given to me at birth and the name under which I was baptized into the Catholic Church.

And I checked female.

After seven years of testosterone, transition, detransition and everything that happened between the little Catholic girl I once was and the 44-year-old woman filling out this form, there was something profoundly simple about those answers.

Erica.

Female.

No reinvention. No new identity to construct. Just returning to what was there at the beginning.

Then the application asked me to list my sacraments.

Baptized: St. Gertrude, 1982.

First Communion: St. Joan of Arc, April 1990.

Confirmation: St. Joan of Arc, May 1996.

Confirmation name: Veronica.

Forty-four years of life represented by a handful of little boxes and dates.

But looking at them together, I suddenly saw the continuity.

The little girl who was baptized Catholic in 1982 is still here.

The girl who received the Eucharist in 1990 is still here.

The teenager who chose St. Veronica as her confirmation saint in 1996 is still here.

And now the adult woman who lived everything that came afterward has put that same name onto another Catholic parish registration form.

The story didn’t start over.

It continued.

I also had to check boxes for how I wanted to participate in parish life.

Lector.

Ladies Guild.

Monday Night Bible Study.

And I’m adding Jail Ministry, because somehow I forgot to check the ministry that may fit my life’s work more naturally than any of them.

I don’t want simply to show up for Mass and leave.

I want to belong again.

I want to read Scripture. I want to serve. I want to pray. I want to help people. I want to become part of a community. I want my faith to exist outside of myself.

And perhaps my favorite thing about this entire application appears before any of those questions.

At the very top, the parish welcomes new members with words attributed to St. Thérèse, asking us to trust God that we are “exactly where you are meant to be.”

That sentence stopped me.

Because then I looked at these photographs.

The old photograph and the new one are separated by generations.

Look closely.

It’s still the same church.

The landscape changed. The neighborhood changed. Generations were born and died. Thousands of people walked through those doors. The world surrounding that building became almost unrecognizable from the world in which it was built.

The Shrine itself endured fire, hatred, upheaval and a century of change.

And it remained.

Maybe that’s why these photographs mean something different to me now.

Because I changed too.

The Catholic girl baptized in 1982 grew up. She wandered extraordinarily far from where she began. She lived an entire complicated life.

But she remained too.

And forty-four years later, during the centennial year of this extraordinary church, she walked through its doors, went back to Mass, went back to confession, opened her Bible every morning, and finally put her Christian name onto a parish registration form again.

1926–2026.

One hundred years for the Shrine.

Forty-four years for Erica.

Both photographs contain the same church.

Both versions of my story contain the same girl.

At the top of the application are those words of St. Thérèse:

Trust God that you are “exactly where you are meant to be.”

Maybe I am.

I’m coming home.

[Orv @Orv4Good]

A mind and soul accepting the reality of our beautiful embodied nature. A unitive anthropology.

This is the way. 🙌🙏👇
@RealistGuild

[correspondenceTheory @corTheory]

Tomorrow our interview we did with @WesternStandard CEO @Dfildebrandt at the Capitalism and Morality Conference on the topic of Media Warfare drops. Link will be posted on X.

[correspondenceTheory @corTheory]

Capitalism & Morality Conference- "Thrive as a thought criminal" Roundtable with Nadine Wellwood, Lorraine Moller and Frances Widdowson.

[Only Form Holds @OnlyFormHolds]

@_CLancellotti Agree. As soon as voluntarism rules, as it does now, we don't have politics anymore in the way it should be understood (the Aristotleian sense of the word). Moderate realism needs to be re-established. The @realistguild is doing that.

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

Our alternative:

1. Universal truth & the common good over ethnos.
2. One standard of truth & justice for everyone.
3. Human nature over transhumanism.
4. Ordered communities & institutions over atomization.

[Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost @Ne_pas_couvrir]

Politics right now:
1. Ethnos awakening for the in-group. Weaponized universalist critical consciousness against the enemy out-group.
2. Selective ethnos awakening for out-groups when it serves in-group interests.
3. Transhumanism as the third path.
4. Atomized people.

[Classic__Liberal 🌲🇺🇸 @ClassicLibera12]

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American Realism is a podcast and intellectual platform dedicated to recovering the lost moral and philosophical foundations of the American Republic. Drawing from the Scottish Enlightenment, natural law, and the classical liberalism of the Founding era, the series contrasts Classic American Liberalism with the ideologies that have emerged to challenge or replace it—Progressivism, Post-Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Woke Leftism.

Hosted as a dialogue between two informed voices, the podcast explores questions of liberty, virtue, conscience, the role of the state, and the nature of moral order in both domestic and global contexts. Each episode offers deep yet accessible analysis of how different political frameworks interpret history, power, justice, and the human person.

Whether you're a student of philosophy, a defender of the American Founding, or simply seeking clarity amid today's ideological confusion, American Realism provides a timely and principled guide to the moral soul of politics.

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

Here @BrutusPersonal explains how once equality is put top of the hierarchy of goods, every difference becomes a gradient to be erased (borders, sex, ability, achievement, hierarchy, even personal agency).

Politics becomes societal entropy.

https://t.co/VdH1yYXN0b

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

We asked our members if they know of any organization or institution that believes these four points below.

All of them struggled to provide even one. Most could not.

If that is not enough reason to support our work, then what would be?

This is a wake-up call. Can you hear it?

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

We hold that

(1) reality exists independently of our preferences
(2) truth is objective and can be understood
(3) human beings have a nature
(4) objective goods exist & those goods have an order. Institutions should therefore be judged according to the goods they exist to serve.

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

Guide to the Realist Guild.

Why it exists, how members benefit from it, how they can contribute and otherwise take part, what the Guild believes, how authority works, how projects get underway & more ...

https://t.co/UkI6bDIUTV

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

@None1683191 3. means we are a definite kind of being, not raw material that can be remade without limit. Because of what we are, we have characteristic capacities, needs, limits & ends. Institutions can treat humans in ways that fit that nature or violate it. Why do you disagree with 4a?

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

We hold that

(1) reality exists independently of our preferences
(2) truth is objective and can be understood
(3) human beings have a nature
(4) objective goods exist & those goods have an order. Institutions should therefore be judged according to the goods they exist to serve.

[The Realist Guild @RealistGuild]

Hospitals across the USA are putting children at risk. This is exactly the kind of movement that we support.

Please support @MorrellMDmph in his efforts to keep citizens informed of sex change treatments performed on minors at healthcare facilities.

https://t.co/CTkKLeto9r

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

When @EithanDHaimMD and colleagues published @HHSGov data of 200+ hospitals submitting fraudulent billing patterns to the Feds, they signaled that the administration has what it needs to end most sex-rejection procedures on minors.

We also talked up an idea you haven’t heard…