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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Some good news - one Southern California beach hit by last week's oil spill has reopened, but the lasting effects of the oil industry remain across the state. Congressman ALAN LOWENTHAL (D-CA-47), who represents Long Beach, CA and surrounding suburbs,\\xa0 is calling for 'a plan to not only stop new drilling, but to figure out how do we stop ALL drilling that's going on in California.'\\xa0 Rep. Lowenthal explains the necessity and difficulty of winding down the state's oil drilling industry, including thorny issues like decommissioning aging fossil fuel infrastructure and replacing fossil fuel jobs as the state transitions to a clean energy economy. Lowenthal also discusses the status of negotiations among Congressional Democrats trying to hammer out details of Biden's Build Back Better Act, with two recalcitrant Democratic senators obstructing the entire Democratic caucus. Corporate media is failing to adequately sound the alarm about the terrifying and dangerous rise of rightwing authoritarianism in the U.S., as Donald Trump threatens to run again for president in 2024 after blatantly trying to steal the 2020 election. Comedian Bill Maher delivers a disturbing monologue detailing how Trump is now laying the groundwork to finish the job and avoid the mistakes he made in 2020, with the Republican Party and Republican elected officials now his willing compatriots in the long con. Callers weigh in..."