Today's five.

Renaming a building after yourself requires, it turns out, an act of Congress — literally. A federal judge blocked the Kennedy Center board's plan to close the venue this summer and ordered all Trump signage removed within 14 days, ruling that only Congress can change the name that Congress gave it. The board had voted in March to shutter the place for two years. Bloomberg led with the injunction; Mother Jones led with the human cost to DC cultural life. The judge's opinion ran 94 pages, which is a lot of words for "you cannot do this."

A 98-meter rocket turned into a fireball at Kennedy Space Center Thursday night, and the ripple effects reach considerably further than Cape Canaveral. Blue Origin's New Glenn was mid-engine test when it exploded — no injuries, but one very large setback. The rocket was supposed to launch 48 Amazon broadband satellites next month and, more significantly, play a central role in NASA's plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface. Bezos posted that it's "too early to know the root cause." BBC coverage leaned hard into the NASA angle; other outlets focused on the Amazon satellite network. Both problems are now real.

Naming your government efficiency commission after the thing you spent two years criticizing is a bold choice, but here we are. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just launched COGE — the Commission of Government Efficiency — to audit how City Hall spends money. Bloomberg called it mimicry. Reason called it... basically the same thing, with a different tone. The acronym is intentional, the irony is apparently not disqualifying, and the underlying idea — that city government wastes money — is one of those rare positions everyone agrees with in theory and nobody agrees about in practice.

The fired attorney general sat down with the House Oversight Committee on Friday and defended everything about the DOJ's Epstein file release — except the one thing they actually wanted to know about. Questions about Trump's involvement got stonewalled. She acknowledged there were redaction errors, but otherwise held the line. Time described the session as "combative." Georgia Public Broadcasting noted she was ousted as AG in April, which gives her testimony an interesting quality: defending decisions made by a job she no longer has, for a boss who fired her.

The Florida Legislature passed a $114.5 billion budget on a Friday afternoon, which is when you pass budgets you'd like to stop talking about. Vetoes are already expected — meaning the governor will quietly remove things the legislature loudly debated. Democrats objected to a $300 million tax cut package they say mostly benefits special interests. Some legislators, not all of them Democrats, worried schools, healthcare, and the environment came up short. None of that stopped the vote. The property tax debate, which is the actual fight everyone's been circling, hasn't started yet.