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by Jessica Costescu

A Northwestern University professor—hired as part of a deal with anti-Israel groups to end last year’s encampment—sits on the boards of two organizations that were founded by and frequently partner with Palestinian terrorists, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

Last year, Northwestern president Michael Schill struck a deal with radical student groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), to end their encampment, agreeing to recruit two Palestinian professors and provide full rides to five students from Gaza. 

Northwestern tapped Mkhaimar Abusada last fall as a visiting associate professor of political science to fill the first of those faculty slots, teaching a weekly undergraduate course on the "Palestinian National Movement."

Abusada also serves on the boards of two organizations that present themselves as human rights groups—the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)—that, in reality, maintain close ties to terrorists. ICHR has praised Hamas and met with the terror group’s leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, while PCHR has Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members on its payroll—with one serving as its leader.

NGO Monitor president Gerald Steinberg condemned Northwestern for hiring Abusada.

"His employment as a faculty member is a heinous violation of basic academic norms and moral principles," he said.

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East executive director Asaf Romirowsky echoed that sentiment.

"When you're signing an agreement with SJP and their sympathizers, they're going to find people who are in agreement with their echo chamber of individuals," he said.

"The number one issue is that the institutions are doing no background checks," Romirowsky added. "This is not a matter of academic freedom. This is a matter of national security. This is a matter of threats to the universities themselves. And there needs to be clear red lines."

Neither Abusada nor Northwestern responded to multiple requests for comment. Hiring Abusada could serve as a thorn in the university’s side as it faces pressure to rein in campus anti-Semitism. Last month, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern amid a civil rights investigation into alleged anti-Semitism and racial discrimination on campus.

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Today, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) reacted to a brand-new Congressional report, “Antisemitism on College Campuses Exposed.” ZOA thanked Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and her U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce for their hard work. ZOA condemns in the strongest terms the documented examples of college administrators tolerating and promoting antisemitism by pandering to antisemitic terrorist sympathizers at the universities and disregarding the rights of Jewish and other pro-Israel students, faculty, and staff. The report can be found here.

This report was published after a year-long investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce majority. It shows how antisemitism has engulfed college campuses since the massacres of October 7, 2023. ZOA knows from our previous work on campus antisemitism that the problem of indifference to antisemitism predates the atrocities committed by Islamic terrorists last year. The report documents the frequent occurrences where many college administrators intentionally prioritized the desires of woke students and faculty over the safety of Jewish and other pro-Israel students, faculty, and staff. These include the following disturbing examples:

At Northwestern, administrators put radical anti-Israel faculty in charge of negotiations with anti-Israel students supporting terrorism with the aim of appeasing them. (Pg. 9) The appeasement worked, and Provost Kathleen Hagerty approved the boycotting of an Israeli company, Sabra Hummus. (Pg. 12)

University leadership promised to hire an anti-Zionist rabbi and the Northwestern President, Michael Schill, appears to have misled Congress on the matter, which could be a crime. (Pg. 15)

At Harvard, the leadership intentionally failed to condemn the terror group Hamas in their widely criticized 10/9/23 statement about the massacre. (Pg. 34) They also refused to mention the fact that Hamas was holding hostages and refused to characterize Hamas’ actions as violent. (Pg. 35)

University administrators explicitly asked Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker not to call the antisemitic chant “From the River to the Sea” antisemitic. (Pg. 41)

At Columbia, the administration excessively disciplined Jewish students falsely accused of using ‘chemical agents’ when in fact administrators were present at the scene, and knew the charges were false. Subsequent administration statements failed to correct the false narrative used to vilify Jewish students. (Pg. 48)

11 universities utterly failed to enforce their rules and impose discipline for antisemitic conduct violations. (Pg. 58) These included Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, and UCLA.

Administrators at Columbia, Harvard, and Penn expressed hostility and contempt for congressional oversight and criticism of their record. (Pg. 114)

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Napola stills filmed by Jiri Hanzl

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I can domesticate him.

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (2013 - 2019) · S01, E01: I Wasn't Ready — dir. Michael Trim

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Have this poster of all of Elvis’ albums. Happy heavenly 90th birthday, Elvis Presley! Not to mention your stillborn older twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley. After you died in 1977, I’m proud to have become one of your fans posthumously. Your legacy inspires generations of music lovers. It’s a shame that not even @priscillapresley was at Graceland to celebrate today or last year. I can only imagine it was in light of @lisampresley’s sudden passing.

Long live the King of Rock “n” Roll!🎂🙏🏻🎤🎸🪩🎥🎬🌹🥂

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hai-alarm am müggelsee, leander haußmann 2013

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The Metro #720

This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your weekly time trip back to the 1980s: Bad Manners, After The Fire, The Style Council, Pat Benatar, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Untouchables, Robert Hazard, Waitresses, Howard Jones, Fleshtones, Eddie Money, Saga, Peter Schilling, and finishing off with Madness. Stream The Metro #720. Download The Metro #720.

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Deutsches Team für das EEF Nationenpreis-Finale 2025 qualifiziert

Janne Friederike Meyer-Zimmermann vom deutschen EEF Nationenpreis-Team EEF Nationenpreis-Finale 2025 – Deutschland ist dabei Ein spannendes Auf und Ab in der Rangierung prägte das Halbfinale der Nationenpreis-Serie der Europäischen Reitsport-Föderation (European Equestrian Federation, EEF), das in Budapest ausgetragen wurde. 14 Nationen schickten ihre Teams in die ungarische Hauptstadt. Die…

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Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)

The only thing preventing Atlas Shrugged: Part I from receiving the lower rating it deserves is its audacity. The first two-thirds are impenetrable and boring. The last third clobbers you with so many bewildering developments that when the credits tell you this is only Part I, you want to see what’s coming next. It's hard to believe even a dedicated Ayn Rand fan would like this film, though if they’re as nutty as this movie makes me think they are, they’d probably drop on their knees and worship anything tangentially related to her.

Set in 2016 (5 years after this film was released), gasoline costs $37 a gallon. Railroads are the only economic form of transportation but even they are in rough shape. Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling), Vice-President of Taggart Transcontinental railroad, defies her brother, James (Matthew Marsden), the CEO of Taggart Transcontinental, and begins replacing steel rails with Rearden Metal. Named after its inventor, Hank Rearden (Grant Bowler), this new metal is 10 times lighter than steel, but far stronger. Unfortunately, politicians, lobbyists and other industry leaders scheme against Dagny and Taggart; laws are passed forcing them to break up their companies and limit the production of Rearden Metal. The State Science Institute releases a report implying Rearden Metal is dangerous. Despite these obstacles, Hank and Dagny carry on. Meanwhile, talented and hard-working employees are quitting their jobs before disappearing entirely. All of these mysterious disappearances point towards the enigmatic John Galt.

I don’t know much about Ayn Rand or her philosophies. We're only judging this film on its own merit. Unfortunately for Atlas Shrugged, its psychopathic and delusional beliefs are obvious. This film is a contrived roundabout fantasy what-if scenario whose thinly veiled goal is demented. Atlas Shrugged has no idea how crazy it sounds - or perhaps writer John Aglialoro and Brian Patrick O’Toole, along with director Paul Johansson really believe what they’re selling. Everyone is conspiring against Dagny and Rearden. Why? The public is told Rearden Metal is dangerous. How? It doesn’t matter. The point is, people think it’s bad. Railroad workers don’t want to drive on it, everyone expects the bridge made from the adamantium-like substance to crumble. People are scared but our protagonists don’t take the time to dissuade their fears. Instead, they plow forward, cursing those union workers for trying to stand in their way.

Our protagonists hear about a factory whose management tried paying all their staff the same wage. They can’t understand why anyone would even try because all they care about is making money. Rearden admits it, he says “All I care about is making money”. This is our hero. He lives in a world of cartoon characters. His frigid wife hates him and his metal. She practically looks at the Rearden Metal bracelet he gives her as if it was made of tinfoil and dog turds and gets rid of it while he watches. You know it’s so Dagny and Rearden can “fall in love” - or whatever these two reptiles would call love - but you so don’t care. It’s hard to care about anything because the setup is so artificial. It creates this bizarro-world scenario where someone being able to make all the money in the world is a good thing, where someone having a monopoly is desirable, where fairness and competition are the worst things that could happen.

You can tell the people in charge of Atlas Shrugged were so busy padding themselves on the back for "telling the truth" they didn’t stop and think. We can buy that railroads are the only viable means of transportation due to fuel shortages, but the source material clearly took place like 80 years ago. Transporting it to the present day when we have the internet, television, cell phones and solar & nuclear power raises dozens of questions. When Dagny and Rearden leave their office, the streets are littered with “Going out of Business” signs and vandalized cars. People can’t afford anything anymore. Well, “normal” people can’t. These two fat cats are driving all over the country, looking for a mysterious engineer (whose identity you can easily decipher) as if gas doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. Their road trip could've been done over the phone. Even in 2011, audiences must have thought “Couldn’t they prove Rearden Metal is good with TV specials and viral marketing strategies, or a demonstration?”

Over and over, the movie has to contort itself to make this world work. To its credit, it ALMOST does. You don’t understand why Rearden and Dagny are constantly being thwarted so you hate the same people and things they hate. There are split seconds where you actually sympathize with them, which means a lot considering how loathsome their ideals are outside of this very specific scenario.

I wish I could say that Atlas Shrugged: Part I was a fascinating mess but it isn’t even that. So much of it is political wheeling and dealing, a slow burn towards a “romance” you don’t care about or a quest to solve a mystery you could unravel in your sleep you will be bored for most of the picture. It does pick up towards the end, at the point in the story where any other film would wrap up, but this one just starts becoming interesting. That upward climb does make me curious to see what the next part will be like but that’s just me. I doubt anyone reading this would care. (On DVD, March 31, 2023)

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Frank King - a King production

Male Models • Men’s Fashion • Male Celebrities • Fitness Models

Openly LGBTQIA+ Celebrities

These are celebrities who have recently come out as LGBTQIA+ or whom I’ve recently learned about or whom I hadn’t mentioned in previous posts of this type (that is, on my old blog). Needless to say, this list is highly arbitrary and incomplete.

Hig Roberts (athlete)

Olivier Rousteing (fashion designer)

Ronen Rubinstein (actor)

Chris Salvatore (actor, musician)

Taylor Schilling (actress)

Hugh Sheridan (actor)

Andrés Simón (model)

JoJo Siwa (YouTuber)

Brian Michael Smith (actor)

Caitlin Stasey (actress)

Continuing the tradition from my old blog (which has been unceremoniously deleted by tumblr without much of an explanation why) I’m doing daily posts during June to celebrate LGBTQIA+ pride by showcasing openly LGBTQIA+ celebrities and various content about or created by LGBTQIA+ people such as music videos, characters on TV shows, movie trailers, ...

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ANTISEMITISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES EXPOSED

Committee on Education & the Workforce. U.S. House of Representatives

KEY FINDINGS

Key Finding: Students who established unlawful antisemitic encampments—which violated university polices and created unsafe and hostile learning environments—were given shocking concessions. Universities’ dereliction of leadership and failure to enforce their rules put students and personnel at risk. o Finding: Northwestern put radical anti-Israel faculty in charge of negotiations with the encampment. o Finding: Northwestern’s provost shockingly approved of a proposal to boycott Sabra hummus. o Finding: Northwestern entertained demands to hire an “anti-Zionist” rabbi and Northwestern President Michael Schill may have misled Congress in testimony regarding the matter. o Finding: Columbia’s leaders offered greater concessions to encampment organizers than they publicly acknowledged. o Finding: UCLA officials stood by and failed to act as the illegal encampment violated Jewish students’ civil rights and placed campus at risk.

Key Finding: So-called university leaders intentionally declined to express support for campus Jewish communities. Instead of explicitly condemning antisemitic harassment, universities equivocated out of concern of offending antisemitic students and faculty who rallied in support of foreign terrorist organizations. o Finding: Harvard leaders’ failure to condemn Hamas’ attack in their widely criticized October 9 statement was an intentional decision. o Finding: Harvard President Claudine Gay and then-Provost Alan Garber asked Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker not to label the slogan “from the river to the sea” antisemitic, with Gay fearing doing so would create expectations Harvard would have to impose discipline. o Finding: The Columbia administration failed to correct false narratives of a “chemical attack” that were used to vilify Jewish students, but imposed disproportionate discipline on the Jewish students involved.

Key Finding: Universities utterly failed to impose meaningful discipline for antisemitic behavior that violated school rules and the law. In some cases, radical faculty successfully thwarted meaningful discipline. o Finding: Universities failed to enforce their rules and hold students accountable for antisemitic conduct violations. o Finding: Columbia’s University Senate obstructed plans to discipline students involved in the takeover of Hamilton Hall. o Finding: Harvard’s faculty intervened to prevent meaningful discipline toward antisemitic conduct violations on numerous occasions. o Finding: Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker acknowledged that the university’s disciplinary boards’ enforcement of the rules is “uneven” and called this “unacceptable.”

Key Finding: So-called university leaders expressed hostility to congressional oversight and criticism of their record. The antisemitism engulfing campuses was treated as a public-relations issue and not a serious problem demanding action. o Finding: Harvard president Claudine Gay disparaged Rep. Elise Stefanik’s character to the university’s Board of Overseers. o Finding: Columbia’s leaders expressed contempt for congressional oversight of campus antisemitism. o Finding: Penn’s leaders suggested politicians calling for President Magill’s resignation were “easily purchased” and sought to orchestrate negative media coverage of Members of Congress who scrutinized the University

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Celebrities that Openly Support MAGA/Their Beliefs

To do with what you will.

Country Artists

The Band Perry Big & Rich Billy Ray Cyrus Brantley Gilbert Brian Kelley Carrie Underwood Charlie Daniels (deceased) Chris Janson Hank Williams Jr. Jason Aldean Jelly Roll John Rich Justin Moore Loretta Lynn (deceased) Luke Bryan Parker McCollum Rascal Flatts Shania Twain Toby Keith (deceased) Trace Adkins Travis Tritt Upchurch

EDM

3LAU

Rappers

42 Dugg 50 Cent Azealia Banks Bandman Kevo Benny the Butcher Chief Keef Dababy Dax Fivio Foreign Kanye West Kodak Black Lil Pump Lil Wayne Money Man Nelly OhGeesy OT7 Quanny Peezy Rick Ross Sheff G Sleepy Hallow Snoop Dogg Soulja Boy Tom MacDonald Waka Flocka Flame Young Dro

Rock and Pop Artists

Aaron Carter (deceased) Azealia Banks Gavin DeGraw Gene Simmons of KISS Kid Rock Linkin Park (New era, 2024) - new lead is a Scientologist and was in good standing with the ‘church’ during this album drop Lynyrd Skynyrd M.I.A. Naked Cowboy Rick Springfield Robert Davi Ronnie Radke Sexyy Red Ted Nugent Wayne Newton The Village People

Latin Artists

Anuel AA Justin Quiles Nicky Jam

Actors/Television Personalities

Dennis Quaid Drea de Matteo James Woods Jim Caviezel Jon Voight Kelsey Grammer Kevin Costner Kevin Sorbo Kristy Swanson Laurence Fox Mark Whalberg Mel Gibson Michael Rapaport Randy Quaid Roseanne Barr Scott Baio Sylvester Stallone Taryn Manning Victoria Jackson Zachary Levi

Reality TV Stars and Media Figures

Amber Rose Ben Shapiro Bryce Hall Caitlyn Jenner Chrisley Family Dr. Phil Elon Musk Guy Fieri Jake Paul Joe Exotic Joe Rogan The Kardashians Mehmet Oz Nelk Boys Paris Hilton (conflicting info) Paula Deen Russell Brand Savannah Chrisley Scott Baio Tony Hinchcliffe

Sports/TV Crossovers

Dana White Danica Patrick Greg Norman Harrison Butker Holly Valance

Athletes (and Sports Figures)

Bob Cousy Bobby Orr Brett Favre Bryson DeChambeau Curt Schilling Herschel Walker Jack Nicklaus Johnny Damon Jon Jones Mariano Rivera Mike Ditka Mike Piazza Mike Tyson Tom Brady Wayne Gretzky

Miscellaneous/Notable Public Figures

Dr. Buzz Aldrin Mike Lindell (MyPillow) Nick Fuentes Tim Pool Tony Hinchcliffe

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Organizing more notes. Some recent-ish books on German colonialism and imperial imaginaries of space/place, especially in Africa:

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German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture (Edited by Itohan Osayimwese, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)

An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa (Adam A. Blackler, Penn State University Press, 2023)

Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Holger Droessler, Harvard University Press, 2022)

Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905 (Matthew Unangst, University of Toronto Press, 2022)

The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood (Patricia Anne Simpson, 2020)

Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 (Erik Grimmer-Solem, Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa (Marie A. Muschalek, 2019)

Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, the League of Nations, and Imperialism (Sean Andrew Wempe, 2019)

Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories (Edited by Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, 2018)

German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence (Susanne Kuss, translated by Andrew Smith, Harvard University Press, 2017)

Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany (Itohan Osayimwese, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)

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German Colonialism in a Global Age (Edited by Bradley Naranch and Geoff Eley, 2014) Including:

"Empire by Land or Sea? Germany's Imperial Imaginary, 1840-1945" (Geoff Eley)

"Science and Civilizing Missions: Germans and the Transnational Community of Tropical Medicine" (Deborah J. Neill)

"Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath" (Andrew Zimmerman)

"Mass-Marketing the Empire: Colonial Fantasies and Advertising Visions" (David Ciarlo)

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German Colonialism and National Identity (Edited by Michael Perraudin and Jurgen Zimmerer, 2017). Including:

"Between Amnesia and Denial: Colonialism and German National Identity" (Perraudin and Zimmerer)

"Exotic Education: Writing Empire for German Boys and Girls, 1884-1914" (Jeffrey Bowersox)

"Beyond Empire: German Women in Africa, 1919-1933" (Britta Schilling)

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Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany (David Ciarlo, Harvard University Press, 2011)

The German Forest: Nature, Identity, and the Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871-1914 (Jeffrey K. Wilson, University of Toronto Press, 2012)

The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (George Steinmetz, 2007)

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What are your favorite 80s songs?

I will warn you, this is going to be quite an extensive list because there are so many 80s songs that I love.

First of all, I need to talk about The Final Countdown. It's iconic and it's the perfect song for motivation. It's a song that I am so fond of. I'm waiting for the day it gets played on the radio at the place where I volunteer.

Then there's Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears for Fears. This one is probably my favourite song that has been played on the radio where I volunteer. I've heard some of the more dramatic covers of it but the original is always the best one to me (it may be blasphemy for me as a Kiwi to say this but Lorde's cover is not better than the original). Also this web weaving was inspired by the song. I just feel like there is something about the more positive and upbeat vibes of the original that just works.

I also really like the Eurythmics songs that I have heard. Especially Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves and Sweet Dreams. Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves is so uplifting and Sweet Dreams on the other hand is both very catchy and can be cathartic.

What can I say about Depeche Mode. The first song of theirs that I listened to was of course Personal Jesus and that one is a bop. Behind the Wheel and Enjoy the Silence both have an unsettling quality to them that works well. I've wanted to make a Kösem edit to A Question of Time for the longest time as well.

I haven't listened to nearly enough Wham and George Michael but Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Father Figure are both classic.

99 Luftballons is a great case study of a song that makes you want to dance and yet is about something incredibly disturbing.

The Look by Roxette is just a bop. I have nothing else to say about this one.

Major Tom/Völlig Losgelöst by Peter Schilling. I first heard this song in English but I prefer the German version honestly. Whoever thought to set a chase scene in Atomic Blonde to this song was so right.

The Very Important Queen Tangent

So Queen is my all time favourite band and I have 2 favourite albums of theirs. While one of them (Jazz) is from the 70s, the other one (The Miracle) is from the 80s. So I'm going to talk about The Miracle as well as Hot Space and A Kind of Magic because those are my favourite 80s Queen albums (although there are a lot of 70s songs I could talk about too and some 90s Queen but that makes me sad).

So in chronological order:

Hot Space (1982)

Apparently this one is controversial. But I like most of the songs on this album. They are different to what Queen had done before, but they still work really well and just because something is new and different doesn't make it bad. Not to mention that Under Pressure is on this album. Aside from that (because let's be honest it goes without saying) my favourite songs are Staying Power, Dancer, Action This Day and Calling All Girls.

A Kind of Magic (1986)

Half of this album is just normal Queen songs and the other is the Highlander soundtrack. Honestly some of my favourites were the ones on the movie soundtrack. While One Vision is fantastic (the positive message for a potential future mixed in with the humour of the fried chicken at the end is just a wonderful combination), Princes of the Universe made for such a dramatic song to open the movie on in the best way. I also love Don't Lose Your Head and Gimme the Prize and Who Wants To Live Forever is always a deeply moving song.

The Miracle (1989)

This album toes the line between the more fun and lighthearted vibes of something like Hot Space and something more reflective that becomes more of a feature of 90s Queen so it kind of bridges the gap between 80s and 90s Queen in that way and it is genuinely my favourite 80s Queen album (although the cover art is just cursed, one of the worst covers of any Queen album ever honestly). So on the one hand you have songs like Party and Khashoggi's Ship and on the other you get Was It All Worth It. And they bookend the album. The combination of fun and emotional lands very well. My other favourites are I Want It All, The Invisible Man and Scandal (the final one of which absolutely deserves a place in the Greatest Hits albums, it's so underrated. It's an excellent song reminder of how much the British tabloids suck, now just as much as they did in the 80s).