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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 President Joe Biden announced a firm date to remove all US troops from Afghanistan (other than those providing diplomatic security) no later than September 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, declaring 'It's time to end the forever war.' Biden's massive infrastructure jobs bill, the $2.24 trillion American Jobs Plan, will be paid for largely by increasing the corporate tax rate, but also by ending permanent, longtime direct subsidies and tax breaks \u2013 government socialism for the fossil fuel industry. Energy and climate journalist DAVID ROBERTS of Volts characterizes Biden's plan as a remarkably progressive infrastructure, jobs and climate proposal. Roberts explains why focusing just on ending direct fossil fuel subsidies is 'a drop in the bucket' compared to the 'indirect subsidies' the fossil fuel industry receives from not paying the true cost of their products, which produce a massive amount of 'social harm' \u2013 external costs and damages to society in the form of pollution, public health, abandoned facilities and climate change that are instead paid by the public. Roberts also covers the scope of Biden's infrastructure jobs plan and its potential to transform US transportation, the difficulty of passing meaningful climate legislation through Congress, and more. Also today:\xa0 Brooklyn Center, MN police officer charged in police killing of Daunte Wright. Inspector General reports that DHS, FBI and US Capitol Police were wildly unprepared for the Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection despite advance warning that violent rightwing extremists planned to attack the Capitol itself; the report also found that the police were prohibited from using their strongest crowd-control methods, for reasons that still remain unclear...