UPDATE: Sadly, Mr. Drum has died. If fact, he had already passed when I wrote this.
Liberal blogger Kevin Drum is very ill.
Back in the hey-day of blogging–oh, from roughly 2003 to 2009 or so, at which time Facebook and Twitter were starting to take up more and more oxygen–bloggers like Drum were every day reads of mine. I still do read a number of blogs every day; this format isn’t dead yet by any means, no matter how much anyone wants to pretend otherwise! But my daily perusal of politically-themed blogs has dwindled greatly, and Drum’s blog is one of the very few I check in with any regularity.
He has been fighting cancer on an on-and-off basis for a while now, and while I don’t really know the nature of his current struggles, he has been silent for several days now and apparently his medical team as of his last post hasn’t been able to figure anything out. While he doesn’t know me from Adam, Kevin Drum does have my best wishes for what recovery is possible.
Mark Evanier really liked him: https://www.newsfromme.com/2025/03/10/kevin-drum-r-i-p/