Exactly one year ago, at this time on this day in 2024, Lilly Bushnell, an anarchist, self-immolated outside the Embassy of Israel to the United States in Washington, D.C., in protest of the Zionist colonisation and genocide in Palestine. She broadcast the act online. Before setting herself alight, she delivered the following statement:

I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonisers — it’s not extreme at all.

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

It took sixty-one seconds for first responders to render aid. Bushnell was immediately transported to a local hospital, where she died of her injuries at 20:06 Eastern Standard Time. She was 24.

Media memory-holed the story within a month. I promised to always remember. This is one way I choose to do so.

If you are seeing this post, Palestine is not yet free.