Trump-Backed MAGA Star’s Buddy Facing Deportation After Coke Bust EXCLUSIVE: PunchUp has learned the close ally of a GOP governor hopeful was picked up by ICE while reporting to his probation officer, having allegedly been living in the country illegally.

Another PunchUp scoop—this time about Trump-backed Florida Gov. hopeful Byron Donalds, who has not been living his campaign values of zero-tolerance on immigration, given the company he keeps.

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ICE Forced to Re-Vet Noem’s Failed Fast-Track Recruits EXCLUSIVE: Agents hired during disastrous mass recruitment to be re-examined now that she’s gone.

SCOOP: ICE’s mass hiring spree was a disaster and now the new agents are being re-vetted, senior officials have told PunchUp.

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No Retirement Peace for Trump’s Border Goon Bovino EXCLUSIVE: The controversial Border Patrol chief exited the agency amid multiple investigations and apparent concerns for his safety, with many of his colleagues having abandoned him.

He’s a small man. Don’t share this, he would hate it.

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No Retirement Peace for Trump’s Border Goon Bovino EXCLUSIVE: The controversial Border Patrol chief exited the agency amid multiple investigations and apparent concerns for his safety, with many of his colleagues having abandoned him.

Gotta love this illustration for my latest PunchUp exclusive, this time on Gregory Bovino and safety fears around his retirement.

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No Retirement Peace for Trump’s Border Goon Bovino EXCLUSIVE: The controversial Border Patrol chief exited the agency amid multiple investigations and apparent concerns for his safety, with many of his colleagues having abandoned him.

Gotta love this illustration for my latest PunchUp exclusive, this time on Gregory Bovino and safety gears around his retirement.

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See Inside Kristi Noem’s Mile-High Jet Boudoir EXCLUSIVE: PunchUp has exclusively obtained photos from inside the former DHS Secretary’s $108 million “shagtastic” scandal-on-wings.

Exclusive photos from Kristi Noem’s $108 million scandal-on-wings reveal her dubious taste also extends to interior design. thepunchup.substack.com/p/kristi-noem-dhs-plane-...

See Inside Kristi Noem’s Mile-High Jet Boudoir EXCLUSIVE: PunchUp has exclusively obtained photos from inside the former DHS Secretary’s $108 million “shagtastic” scandal-on-wings.

Guess how tacky the inside of Kristi Noem’s “shagtastic” bedroom in her private DHS jet was? (Clue - very.) I got the exclusive pics on my new Substack where the article is free to read, so have a laugh and share and subscribe!

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Welcome to PunchUp A scrappy new public-interest journalism platform created for the people, with the people. Let's fight to expose the truth together.

I did a thing. Check it out!

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Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
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Apparently she just wants to have a family. So I’m told.

Who is Alex Jeffrey Pretti? Minnesota ICE shooting victim His parents said the 37-year-old nurse loved the outdoors and cared deeply about people and ‘what was happening in Minneapolis’

Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s “care for others” led the intensive care nurse to protest immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota, his family have said

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Rachel Sayre compares what's happening in Minneapolis to what she saw in conflict zones working for USAID. Listen to her. #resist #altfam

They do, all the time.

MAGA brains breaking everywhere trying to decide if the Second Amendment means more to them than ICE and Border Patrol.

But they won’t will they.

One of them was in prison!

Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia ICE List says website was hit just as it prepared to publish names of federal immigration staff leaked by an alleged whistleblower.

What “smells fishy”? We simply reported the leak had happened, not any of the names in the leak. The names were never going to go up en masse. Read the original story properly. And if you can’t see the site? This will be why.

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Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

Story updated with new brand new photos of Jonathan Ross, one in Iraq, and with more new info about the officer who killed Renee Good:

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Who will be the first member of Congress to introduce legislation named after Renee Good that abolishes DHS?

Go and doorstep him.

Ivanka Trump will assist White with the planning of the White House event, because she holds a blue belt in jiu-jitsu, according to reports. Hilarious.

The Pentagon reporters who have been kicked out of the building continue to break huge stories every day while the right-wing New Media continue to post selfies of themselves hanging out in the Pentagon.

‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’

- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils

That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇

MAGA influencer invited to White House as a favorite Trump "journalist" has an active warrant for his arrest A woman said he stole her dog, then assaulted her after she rebuffed his sexual advances. Now Nick Sortor is facing arrest in Kentucky for violating his probation.

NEW: Trump has offered his personal support to MAGA influencer Nick Sortor and invited him to the White House as a star journalist. While Sortor was at an event with Trump, Bondi, Patel and Noem, a warrant for his arrest was active in Kentucky.

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Loads of them are women.

Judge Blasts ICE’s ‘Fictional’ Attempt to Jail Man for 20 Years Over Goon’s Self-Inflicted Injury A Republican-appointed judge was appalled by the “outrageous” conduct of ICE and the Trump administration.

Judge Blasts ICE Special Agent William Carl's ‘Fictional’ Attempt to Jail Man for 20 Years Over Goon’s Self-Inflicted Injury (Reporting by @tomlatchem.bsky.social) www.thedailybeast.com/judge-blasts...

We write the headlines when they get praised. When they don’t: we dOn’T WriTe tHe HeAdLiNeS!!!

Yet another fun lil' scoop by me for @thedailybeast.bsky.social