They should clear out once they fail. That's weird they are persisting. If you really want them to go away you can restore from seed, this will get rid of all your activity items and only keep your balance. If you could email your logs to us at team@mutinywallet.com, I can try to see why the history isn't clearing out.
Should wallet connection with Damus work?! Zaps don’t go through at least for me
No, there's a bug in damus https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/1954