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Dems run to the Bluesky block button as Vance trolls them on their own virtual turf for solid week

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Vice President JD Vance is leveraging the social media platform Bluesky, which is an X competitor commonly used by liberals, to troll Democrats just one week after joining the platform and subsequently becoming its most blocked user, Fox News Digital found. 

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«Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you,» Vance said in his inaugural Bluesky post June 18, before sharing a quote from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ solo concurring opinion earlier in June upholding a Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries for minors. 

«To that end, I found Justice Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called «experts» have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,» Vance said. «I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?»

Bluesky is a social media alternative to X that is dominated by liberal voters and Democratic elected officials after they fled X following President Donald Trump’s November 2024 victory. 

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X is owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, who was a top Trump ally on the campaign trail and who previously oversaw the Department of Government Efficiency under the Trump administration. 

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Vice President JD Vance appears on «Special Report» as President Donald Trump announces a ceasefire between Israel and Iran on June 23, 2025. (Fox News / Special Report)

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Vance’s first BlueSky post followed the platform mistakenly banning his account after it was flagged as a potential Vance impostor account, Fox Digital previously reported. 

«We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky,» the company told Fox News Digital in an email response, noting, «There have been many past attempts to impersonate Vice President JD Vance on Bluesky as he is a public figure, and the jd-vance-1.bsky.social account was flagged as part of that pattern by our automated systems, and temporarily suspended.»

«The account was quickly reinstated within 20 minutes of the suspension, and we’ve also added a verified badge to help users confirm the authenticity of the profile,» the statement added.

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Vance has become the most-blocked person on Bluesky since he first joined just a week ago, according to data posted by ClearSky, which keeps tabs on social media accounts that have been blocked by fellow users. Vance’s Bluesky account has been blocked by nearly 150,000 other accounts, ClearSky data reviewed by Fox Digital Wednesday afternoon showed. 

In the week since Vance joined the platform, he has repeatedly trolled Democrats, including following New York City’s mayoral primaries, when democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani trounced top competitor and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the polls. Mamdani’s victory is viewed as the Democrat Party moving farther to the left in New York City after national voters sounded off in the 2024 election that the party’s embrace of some left-wing policies alienated Americans. 

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Widely seen as a liberal alternative to X, the Bluesky social media platform saw an explosion in new liberal users following President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory.

«Congratulations to the new leader of the Democratic Party,» Vance quipped on Bluesky while tagging Mamdani.

A handful of other Republicans also took to social media Wednesday to mock Democrats for nominating the most liberal candidate in their pool of prospective mayors, including New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and the National Republican Congressional Committee, Fox Digital previously reported. 

Vance took another apparent shot at Democrats Monday, when he posted to Bluesky, «President Trump just said to Iran’s nuclear program: no way jose.»

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The message followed outrage among Democrats a few days prior on June 20, when Vance referred to Democrat California Sen. Alex Padilla as «Jose» Padilla when asked about the senator’s removal and detainment from a Department of Homeland Security press conference earlier in June to protest federal immigration raids in Los Angeles. 

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Sen. Alex Padilla slammed Vice President JD Vance for calling him «Jose Padilla.» (Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

«I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question,» Vance said during a press conference on June 20 when asked about Padilla, calling him by the wrong first name. «I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t a theater. And that’s all it is.»

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Padilla and fellow Democrats, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, criticized Vance for using the wrong first name. 

«He knows my name,» Padilla said Saturday during an interview on MSNBC, adding, «He’s the Vice President of the United States — you’d think he’d take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously.»

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Vance had only posted nine messages to his Bluesky account as of Wednesday afternoon, including messages that were also posted to his far more frequently used X account. 

US Vice President JD Vance, from left, US President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, and Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, during an address to the nation

Vice President JD Vance, left, listens as President Donald Trump speaks to the nation. (Pool)

«I wonder if other VPs had as much excitement as I do,» he posted to X and Bluesky on Tuesday after Iran and Israel agreed to a ceasefire following the U.S. ordering strikes that destroyed a trio of Iranian nuclear facilities. 

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Vance added in another Bluesky message also found on his X account Tuesday, «We are seeing a foreign policy doctrine develop that will change the country (and the world) for the better: 1) clearly define an American interest; 2) negotiate aggressively to achieve that interest; 3) use overwhelming force if necessary.»

Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo, Paul Steinhauser and Marc Tomasco contributed to this report. 

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Las fábricas de EE. UU. enfrentan un reto: encontrar miles de empleados

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La promesa del presidente Donald Trump de reactivar la industria manufacturera estadounidense se está chocando con el obstinado obstáculo de la realidad demográfica.

La reserva de obreros que pueden y quieren realizar tareas en una fábrica estadounidense está disminuyendo. A medida que los baby boomers se jubilan, pocos jóvenes se han ofrecido para ocupar su lugar.

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Según la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales, actualmente hay alrededor de 400.000 empleos sin cubrir en el sector manufacturero, un déficit que seguramente aumentará si las empresas se ven obligadas a recurrir menos a la fabricación en el extranjero y a construir más fábricas en Estados Unidos, señalan los expertos.

Desde 2017, los fabricantes estadounidenses han hablado constantemente de la dificultad para atraer y retener una fuerza laboral de calidad como uno de sus “principales desafíos”, dijo Victoria Bloom, economista jefe de la Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes, que elabora una encuesta trimestral. Esto apenas recientemente descendió en la lista de desafíos, al ser rebasado por la incertidumbre relacionada con el comercio por los aranceles del gobierno de Trump y por el aumento de los costos de las materias primas, explicó Bloom.

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Sin embargo, la escasez de obreros cualificados sigue siendo un problema a largo plazo, según Ron Hetrick, economista de Lightcast, empresa que proporciona datos laborales a universidades e industrias.

Nos pasamos tres generaciones diciéndole a todo el mundo que el que no iba a la universidad era un perdedor”, dijo. “Ahora estamos pagando el precio. Aún necesitamos que la gente use las manos”.

Los retos de contratación que enfrentan las fábricas estadounidenses son complejos.

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Las medidas del presidente Trump contra la migración, que incluyen intentos de revocar las protecciones contra la deportación para los inmigrantes procedentes de países con problemas, podrían eliminar a trabajadores que podrían haber ocupado esos puestos de trabajo.

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A muchos estadounidenses no les interesa trabajar en fábricas porque a menudo no pagan lo suficiente como para atraer a trabajadores que ya tienen empleos en el sector servicios, los cuales pueden ofrecer horarios más flexibles o entornos laborales más cómodos.

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Para algunas empresas, seguir siendo competitivas a nivel mundial implica el uso de equipos sofisticados que requieren que los empleados tengan una amplia formación y estén familiarizados con ciertos programas informáticos. Y los empresarios no pueden limitarse a contratar a gente recién egresada de la preparatoria sin ofrecerles programas de formación especializados para que se pongan al día. Eso no ocurría en el apogeo de la fabricación estadounidense.

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Atraer a jóvenes motivados a carreras de fabricación también es un reto cuando los orientadores de las escuelas siguen siendo juzgados por la cantidad de estudiantes que van a la universidad.

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Por otra parte, los egresados de universidades no suelen tener las aptitudes adecuadas para tener éxito en una fábrica.

El país está inundado de egresados universitarios que no encuentran trabajos acordes con su formación, afirmó Hetrick, y no hay suficientes obreros cualificados para cubrir los puestos que existen actualmente, por no hablar de los puestos que se crearán si se construyen más fábricas en Estados Unidos.

The Business Roundtable, un grupo de presión cuyos miembros son directores ejecutivos de empresas, ha puesto en marcha una iniciativa en la que los ejecutivos colaboran en estrategias para atraer y formar a una nueva generación de trabajadores en oficios cualificados. En un acto llevado a cabo la semana pasada en Washington, los ejecutivos compartieron sus frustraciones sobre lo difícil que era encontrar personal cualificado e intercambiaron consejos en el escenario sobre cómo superar la brecha.

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Sus ideas incluían revisar las descripciones de los puestos de trabajo existentes en las empresas para dar prioridad a la experiencia relevante sobre los títulos universitarios y reclutar a estudiantes de preparatoria desde segundo año para brindarles experiencias que despierten su interés en carreras en el sector manufacturero.

“Actualmente, por cada 20 ofertas de empleo que tenemos, hay un candidato cualificado”, dijo David Gitlin, presidente y director ejecutivo de Carrier Global, que fabrica aires acondicionados y hornos y da mantenimiento a equipos de calefacción y refrigeración.

Con el auge de la inteligencia artificial, dijo Gitlin, se ha disparado la demanda de técnicos para dar mantenimiento a centros de datos, que se construyen con sistemas de refrigeración llamados enfriadores. Calculó que cada centro de datos necesitaría cuatro técnicos para dar mantenimiento a un solo enfriador.

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“Hoy tenemos 425.000 técnicos”, dijo, refiriéndose a toda la industria de equipos de calefacción y aires acondicionados. “Vamos a necesitar contratar a otros cuatrocientos o quinientos mil en los próximos 10 años”. Pero la cantidad de jóvenes que acuden a escuelas vocacionales y colegios comunitarios, añadió, está disminuyendo, no creciendo.

En el evento de The Business Roundtable, los ejecutivos elogiaron los esfuerzos de Trump por reactivar la base industrial del país. Sin embargo, algunos ejecutivos reconocieron que las políticas migratorias del presidente representan un desafío para cualquier intento de llenar las fábricas que él se ha comprometido a reactivar.

Peter Davoren, presidente y director ejecutivo de Turner Construction Company, afirmó que le gustaría ver “un camino claro hacia la ciudadanía” para los inmigrantes del sector de la construcción y la industria alimentaria.

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Los agresivos recortes del gobierno de Trump a los programas de formación para obreros también han perjudicado los esfuerzos por formar a una nueva generación de trabajadores industriales. El gobierno ha tomado medidas para eliminar Job Corps, un programa de 60 años de antigüedad que ofrece una vía hacia una carrera en oficios especializados a jóvenes de entre 16 y 24 años en situación de riesgo. Huntington Ingalls Industries, el mayor constructor naval de Estados Unidos, contrató en diciembre a 68 graduados de Job Corps en un intento de reforzar su fuerza laboral.

La brecha entre las habilidades disponibles y las necesarias en la fuerza laboral es cada vez mayor”, dijo Chris Kastner, presidente y director ejecutivo de Huntington Ingalls Industries. “La tecnología evoluciona rápidamente, pero los sistemas de educación y formación se quedan atrás con demasiada frecuencia”.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw

El gobierno de Trump ha puesto en marcha una iniciativa denominada Make America Skilled Again (Hagamos a Estados Unidos hábil de nuevo), que consolida los programas existentes de formación de mano de obra en una sola iniciativa que daría subvenciones a los estados si cumplen determinados criterios. Al menos el 10 por ciento de la nueva financiación de Make America Skilled Again debe destinarse a programas de aprendizaje.

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En abril, Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva que ordenaba al secretario de Trabajo, al secretario de Comercio y al secretario de Educación que presentaran un plan para crear un millón de programas de aprendizaje registrados. Sin embargo, no está claro si ese ambicioso objetivo podrá alcanzarse con los fondos asignados en el proyecto de presupuesto de Trump, que recorta US$1600 millones destinados a la capacitación laboral.

En abril, el secretario del Tesoro, Scott Bessent, provocó la ira de muchos empleados federales cuando sugirió que las fábricas estadounidenses podrían obtener los trabajadores que necesitaban entre las filas de los empleados despedidos del gobierno. “Nos estamos deshaciendo del exceso de trabajadores en el gobierno federal”, dijo a Tucker Carlson, antiguo presentador de Fox News. “Eso nos dará la mano de obra que necesitamos para la nueva fabricación”.

Sin embargo, en el evento de Roundtable nunca se habló de reclutar empleados federales despedidos. En lugar de esto, los participantes hablaron de los esfuerzos para formar a estudiantes de preparatoria y veteranos.

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Blake Moret, presidente y director ejecutivo de Rockwell Automation, una empresa especializada en automatización de procesos con sede en Milwaukee, dijo que su compañía había creado una academia de manufactura avanzada que capacitaba a exmilitares durante 12 semanas.

Sara Armbruster, directora ejecutiva de Steelcase, una compañía de Grand Rapids, Michigan, que diseña muebles, dijo que las empresas deben empezar a contratar personal en la preparatoria para que los estudiantes y sus padres aprendan lo gratificante que puede ser una carrera en la industria manufacturera.

Los estudiantes suelen cambiar de opinión sobre las carreras en el sector manufacturero cuando visitan el taller de la empresa y ven que una fábrica moderna es limpia, de alta tecnología y “cool”, añadió.

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“Cuando tienen ese momento, realmente lo cambia todo en términos de las posibilidades que se les abren en su carrera”, dijo.

Por Farah Stockman.

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JB Pritzker takes aim at Trump in launching Democratic re-election bid for Illinois governor

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Spotlighting his accomplishments and highlighting his pushback against President Donald Trump’s sweeping and controversial agenda, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday launched his campaign for a third term as Illinois governor.

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«I’m ready for the fight ahead,» the governor said, announcing his 2026 re-election bid in the blue state. Pritzker is a billionaire and a member of the Pritzker family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain.

Pritzker said that «Illinois is standing at the center of the fight: the fight to make life more affordable, the fight to protect our freedoms, the fight for common sense.»

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Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday announced a 2026 re-election bid for a third term as Illinois governor. (Governor JB Pritzker via X)

Pritzker has become one of the Democratic Party’s most vocal Trump critics during the opening months of the president’s second tour in the White House.

Pointing to Trump and the Republicans who control Congress, Pritzker argued that «in Washington, all they’re offering is chaos and craziness. Their tariffs are hurting farmers and small businesses, stripping away health care from seniors and working families and proposing even bigger deficits than before, all to give big tax breaks to the wealthy.»

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«Donald Trump has made clear that he’ll stop at nothing to get his way,» the governor charged. «I’m not about to stand by and let him tear down all we’re building in Illinois.»

Pritzker, who started several of his own venture capital and investment startups before running for office, touted that «we don’t just talk about problems. In Illinois, we solve them.» In another jab at Trump, Pritzker said, «We know government ought to stand up for working families and be a force for good, not a weapon of revenge.»

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In his video, the governor touted that during his two terms in office, «we’ve balanced seven straight budgets and got nine credit upgrades. We raised the minimum wage, capped the cost of insulin, banned assault weapons, protected abortion rights, and eliminated the state grocery tax, lowered prescription drug costs and added tens of thousands of jobs.»

However, the Republican Governors Association (RGA) does not see it that way.

«People are fleeing Illinois by the hundreds of thousands and Illinois families continue to suffer the consequences of JB Pritzker’s abject record of failure at home while he spends his time on a national vanity project trying to further his own political career,» RGA Rapid Response Director Kollin Crompton said in a statement to Fox News.

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Crompton also charged that «opportunities for working Illinois families are in the garbage, criminal illegal immigrants are protected over law-abiding citizens, and Pritzker’s tax hikes are destroying family budgets.»

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Illinois, which is the nation’s sixth most populous state, does not have term limits for statewide officials. However, there has not been a three-term governor in the state in more than three decades, since GOP Gov. Jim Thompson won four terms as governor in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Pritzker is seen as a potential contender for the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nomination – and the launch of his 2026 gubernatorial re-election campaign is not expected to derail him from potentially running for the White House.

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is interviewed by Fox News Digital during a New Hampshire delegation breakfast at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 2024 in Chicago. (Paul Steinhauser)

He was a high-profile campaign surrogate in the 2024 cycle on behalf of former President Joe Biden, as well as former Vice President Kamala Harris after she replaced Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee last summer. 

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Those efforts brought Pritzker to Nevada, a general election battleground state and an early-voting Democratic presidential primary state, and New Hampshire, which for a century has held the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

Additionally, Pritzker’s return to New Hampshire this spring to headline a major state Democratic Party fundraising dinner sparked more speculation about a possible 2028 presidential run.

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Champion skydiver plummets to death during wingsuit jump

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A champion wingsuit flyer who featured in a BBC documentary called The Boy Who Can Fly has died after he was critically injured in a jump over the weekend. 

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Liam Byrne, 24, was taking part in a high-risk jump at nearly 8,000 feet above sea level in the Swiss Alps on Saturday when tragedy struck, according to The Telegraph, citing local police. 

Byrne, of Scotland, was wearing a wingsuit, a specialized webbed-sleeved jumpsuit with membranes between the arms, body and legs which allows a diver to glide flight in the air.

Wingsuit diver Liam Byrne in action and smiling in a collage. He died on Saturday. (Instagram @liambyrne0)

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He was one of three wingsuit pilots who launched a jump from Gitschen, a mountain overlooking Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

However, Byrne «deviated from his intended course shortly after take-off for reasons still unknown and crashed into a rocky outcrop,» police said. «He suffered fatal injuries.»

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Byrne, a British champion in the adrenaline-fueled sport, was an experienced flyer with more than 4,000 jumps to his name, according to the outlet. His Instagram account also lists him as a skydiving instructor, wingsuit coach and BASE (Building, Antenna, Span and Earth) jumper.

In the BBC-produced documentary, filmmakers follow Byrne’s journey to champion flyer.

Byrne told the documentary: «I think I was about 13 when I said to my dad that I wanted to learn to fly like a bird.»

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Wingsuit jumper Liam Byrne and another man in a wingsuit.

Byrne getting ready to jump, left, a man in a wingsuit on Tianmen mountain in Zhangjiajie, China’s Hunan province, showing his full suit. (Instagram @liambyrne0;  WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images.)

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He said that an office job scared him far more than the fear of dying from a base or wingsuit jump. He insisted that good preparation was at the heart of all his jumps and kept him safe and acknowledged that the high-risk sport worried his family.

Byrne climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at age 12, became a licensed paraglider at 14, completed his first skydive at 16 and was flying in a wingsuit by 18, according to the BBC.

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Byrne’s family released a statement praising him and saying that the sport was «more than just a thrill for Liam – it was freedom. It was where he felt most alive.»

«We would like to remember Liam not just for the way he left this world, but for how he lived in it,» the statement reads in part.

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Liam Byrne in the last wingsuit jump he posted to Instagram. (Instagram @liambyrne0)

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«Liam was fearless, not necessarily because he wasn’t afraid but because he refused to let fear hold him back. He chased life in a way that most of us only dream of and he soared.»

The statement continued: «He inspired all of us and made life better with his bold spirit and kind heart. We will miss Liam’s wild energy and contagious laugh. Though he has now flown beyond our reach, he will always be with us.»

There have been a number of wingsuit-related deaths in the U.S., including a January 2024 incident in which Gregory Coates, 36, died in Colorado after both his primary and reserve parachutes failed to deploy.

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In September, Jonathan Bizilia, 27, of Alabama died in a jump in Utah.


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