James David Dickson

Michigan

Host at The Enjoyer Podcast

Make News Local Again. Host of Enjoyer Podcast @mich_enjoyer. Teller of #2025truths. All Journalism is Politics. DCD.

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Articles

How Trump Broke Up the Charlie’s Angels of Michigan

5 days ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

“The reward you get for cozying up to Trump is him threatening to pardon the terrorists who plotted to kidnap and murder you,” wrote Attorney General Dana Nessel on X. So marked the era of the girlboss era in Michigan. With a bang, a shot fired by a woman who rode to office on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coattails. It was all good three years ago.
Trump Keeps the Lights on in West Michigan

1 week ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

By declaring an energy emergency, and warning of shortfalls to come this summer, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright ordered the J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive to stay open. The plant cannot dip below its 2024 energy levels. Left to its devices, Consumers Energy had planned to close it this week, some 15 years ahead of schedule.
Don’t Forget Whitmer’s “86 Trump” Moment

2 weeks ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

Former FBI Director James Comey made a spectacle of himself last week with an Instagram post that read “86-47.” It doesn’t take a Navajo codebreaker to discern the meaning: End Donald Trump, our 47th president. By any means necessary. Trump jokes about pursuing a third term, but that would demand the movement of constitutional mountains, so “86” Trump could only mean one thing. It meant the same thing on Oct.
Trump Can’t Save Us From Our Left-Wing Supreme Court

3 weeks ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

Five years ago, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic orders. Back then, it was a conservative, rule-of-law court. The justices then did something we now consider quaint, or even outmoded: They looked at the law and applied it, finding that the governor was using powers that were unconstitutional. If the top court took that case in 2025, it might slap anyone challenging Whitmer with sanctions.
How Michigan Democrats Became the Girlboss Party

1 month ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

In Gov. John Engler’s first re-election campaign in 1994, the Michigan Democrats did not send their best. Instead, they sent a man named Howard Wolpe. Wolpe was a longtime congressman before running, but his name is largely forgotten in Michigan politics, except as trivia. Remember the guy Engler crushed in 1994? But Wolpe’ss running mate, Debbie Stabenow, would become a legend. At the time, she was a state senator.
Is the Ambassador Bridge the Bermuda Triangle for Illegals?

1 month ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

To hear the Detroit media tell it, and the national media re-tell it, the Ambassador Bridge is Michigan’s Bermuda Triangle. One minute, you’re headed for Saturday samples at Costco, the next minute, you are a stranger in a foreign land, detained indefinitely at a black site, never to be seen again. The first telling of the “wrong turn into Canada” story was a farce. It was a skit on the sitcom “Detroiters.” It was an urban legend—Exit 47B, The Exit That Shall Not Be Taken.
We Need a Right to Not Be Assumed Racist

1 month ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

When Michigan does become a right-to-work state again someday, the law will need an update for modern times. If union membership should not be a precondition for getting or keeping a job, nor should ideological training, swear-tos, or vaccination status. Workers need freedom from coercion in all forms. Since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Democrats were kind enough to repeal Michigan’s right-to-work law in 2023, the modern version can be built back better.
Can You Trust a Reporter Wearing a Covid Mask?

1 month ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

A photo showing Lansing reporter Tim Skubick wearing a big black mask while interviewing a lawmaker outside the Capitol was recently posted on X by the Midwesterner. Twitter (now known as X) is the worst thing that could’ve ever happened to journalists. Before Twitter, journalists like Skubick could pretend that no one could see their pro-Democrat bias. What they don’t realize is that with every word, with every choice or mannerism, their bias becomes more clear.
Rep. Julie Brixie Exiled, Silenced After Saran-Wrap Vandalism

1 month ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

Rep. Julie Brixie’s walk to work just got 1,000 yards longer after House Speaker Matt Hall passed down punishment for her vandalism against a Republican colleague last week, Michigan Enjoyer has confirmed. At this juncture, the punishments are indefinite, said a House source familiar with the details of Brixie’s punishment. No time frame or terms have been set.
Julie Brixie Saran-Wrapping Matt Maddock’s Car Wasn’t Just Some Prank

1 month ago | enjoyer.com | James David Dickson

When Rep. Laurie Pohutsky sterilized herself for the sake of a headline, we prayed for her. When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hid her face from cameras inside the Oval Office, you wanted to cover your face too. Then, this week, state Rep. Julie Brixie took it to another next level. Brixie, wearing an Obama-inspired tan suit, Saran-wrapped the car of a Republican state Rep. Matt Maddock. The whole thing was caught on camera, along with a Brixie accomplice filming everything on her cell phone.