James Clyburn says supporting Clarence Thomas for supreme court ‘was mistake’

The senior Democratic congressman James Clyburn said his decision to support Clarence Thomas for a US supreme court seat “was a mistake” and called for the expansion of the nation’s highest legal panel to 13 justices...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/31/james-clyburn-clarence-thomas-supreme-court

 

South Korean crypto exchange races to recover $40bn of bitcoin sent to customers by mistake

Bithumb has apologised for staff error that sent customers 620,000 bitcoins instead of 620,000 Korean won, equivalent to a few hundred US dollars…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/10/bithumb-korean-crypto-exchange-sent-bitcoin-mistake

 

Harvard balked at reports that Trump team mistakenly sent demands - The Washington Post

"Even assuming the Administration now wishes to take back its litany of breathtakingly intrusive demands," the university said in its statement, "it appears to have doubled down on those demands through its deeds in recent days. 

"Actions speak louder than words."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/19/harvard-trump-letter-mistake-unauthorized/

Black man says police tased and beat him after mistaking him for domestic violence suspect

Silvester Hayes, a 27-year-old single father of four children, was then wrongly arrested even after police realized their mistake, according to a federal lawsuit he filed last week against the city and multiple police officers...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-man-says-dallas-police-tased-beat-mistaking-domestic-violence-su-rcna122131

Body camera footage shows Black family held at gunpoint after police typo IDs car as stolen

Frisco Police Chief David Shilson said the department "will not hide from its mistakes" after a typo by an officer identified the family's license plate as from the wrong state…

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/firsco-texas-family-held-gunpoint-after-police-typo-stolen-car-rcna97246

Police charge white man for shooting Black teen boy who had wrong address

Ralph Yarl, 16, is in stable condition as outrage spread over the police's initial decision to release the homeowner without charges

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/17/black-kansas-city-teen-shot-wrong-address

New Mexico police were at the wrong house when they fatally shot Robert Dotson, video shows - The Washington Post

After the officers appeared to laugh at the notion that they mixed up the addresses, police backed away and shined a light on Dotson once he came to the door of what authorities thought was the house with the domestic violence report, video shows. But the officers were supposed to be at an address across the street, according to police. When Dotson opened the screen door and began to raise his firearm, police opened fire on the homeowner, who quickly fell to the ground, according to body-cam video...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/15/police-shooting-wrong-house-video-new-mexico-dotson/

Trial 4: how a teen spent 22 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit | Documentary | The Guardian

Sean Ellis was 19 years old when he was arrested for killing a police officer in Boston. Decades later, he prepares for his fourth trial in Netflix's Trial 4.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/11/trial-4-netflix-sean-ellis-boston

Mismanagement, missed opportunities: How the White House bungled the coronavirus response

Trump’s own advisers acknowledged to NBC News that the failure to focus on widespread testing was a major misstep.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/mismanagement-missed-opportunities-how-white-house-bungled-coronavirus-response-n1158746

Trump Supporters Admit They Made a Mistake

A new ad campaign by the PAC American Bridge features rural, working class Trump voters admitting they made a mistake in 2016 and saying they no longer support Donald Trump in 2020 ...
https://youtu.be/nP3VnP9GIOI

Is Trump repeating one of the worst foreign policy blunders in history? - The Washington Post

Why appeasement is likely to backfire.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/28/is-trump-repeating-one-worst-foreign-policy-blunders-history/

The 7 Deadliest Career Mistakes - Forbes

It's the career mistakes that we don't know about and the things that we fail to do that end up having the most significant impact on our career. Here are seven of the deadliest career mistakes that you could be making and how to fix them.....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliapeart/2019/06/26/the-7-deadliest-career-mistakes/#6ce752d069cf

Billionaire Ray Dalio: This is the 'biggest mistake' that most investors make - CNBC

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio explains a lesson from history that investors should learn in order to avoid buying high and selling low.....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/17/ray-dalio-this-is-the-biggest-mistake-that-most-investors-make.html

This Evangelical Pastor Helped Build the Religious Right. He Now Believes He Made a Terrible Mistake - Mother Jones

The past four decades have seen an ever-tightening alliance between American evangelicals and the Republican Party, and few have played as pivotal a role in fostering that coupling as Reverend Rob Schenck. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/this-evangelical-pastor-helped-build-the-religious-right-he-now-believes-he-made-a-terrible-mistake-rob-schenck/

Out of control: ICE agents held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. And there's more.

ICE is the epitome of an agency drunk with power and targeting everyone in sight for deportation regardless of what the actual facts of their case are. And in many cases, the actual facts include being a U.S. citizen, being a U.S. citizen who was targeted routinely despite proving one's citizenship, and being a U.S. citizen who was held for more than three years in detention.....

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1760348

This is the worst financial mistake a grandparent can make - The Washington Post

This is the worst financial mistake a grandparent can make...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2018/04/02/this-is-the-worst-financial-mistake-a-grandparent-can-make/