This is Sirens, a not-so-new series brought to you by the ladies of bombshell, where we dissect the institutions of American power.

Join us as we sound the alarm on technology, governance, and national security issues and maybe lure some men to their desks, if we are able to find the tab where we make the plan to lure the manager of the desk because we both have too many tabs open. I'm Lauren DeYoung Schulman. I'm Roda, Ian Garplan. And we are here recording on Wednesday night this week.

Like, it feels a little risky to be recording at all because anytime I turn on the news,

like, wait, are we sending ground troops, like a lot of ground troops into the Middle East

right now or any number of other things that have happened?

So, like, we're going to try to do our best to raise some issues that are going on in this moment that has struck our fancy. If by the time this episode is released, aliens have invaded, and I have an aside on that, we'll, you know, we'll come back to you later. But first I want to start with our question of the week, as always, on Sirens, we love,

or as I say we, the royal we, certainly I, love a acronym, love a backronym.

And there are so many good ones in the world, but I, in trying to decide which one was my best, I was like

looking up like, is there a kind of history here? Is it kind of interesting? And I discovered

actually something even more delightful than a really good backeronym. Well, actually,

it is a good acronym. It is the acronym Act by Representative Miconda, which is the accountability and congressional responsibility

on naming your motions.

Oh my God.

I know, isn't it great?

And it's a bill that would have basically banned this practice of adding words to bills just

to create an acronym.

And I love that. like that it makes me

really happy that he he made the effort to go down that path like that's just great but like if i

was being serious like i always love dieto because it's like an acronym within it which is not actually

a background but it's an acronym which i also like i don't know if that has a word too but i i

do particularly appreciate that what about you ron Russian nesting nests of acronym so first

of all two things many things on this one is I love a background in myself and believe that

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