They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading “#NoLivesMatter,” prosecutors said.

No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram

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    Something that explodes is not necessarily an explosive. No hard definition really excists, but an explosive usually means an energetic material that reacts exothermic and is self sustaining (carries its own oxygen). High explosives detonates (reacts very fast) so while gas and other energetic materials might explode, they are way to slow and the speed of the explosion is defined by the exchange of oxygen with the surrounding air.