Tim Robbins won an Academy Award in 2004 for portraying a victim of two terrible crimes in the neo-noir crime drama Mystic River. On Monday, Robbins made it clear he's not content to be a silent victim.

In a tweet that reached nearly three million people in 24 hours, the longtime Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter ripped Democrats who threatened reporter Matt Taibbi with prison following his congressional testimony on the Twitter Files.

"What an embarrassing, shameful time for the Democrats and the 'free' press," wrote Robbins. "You are losing any shred of credibility you had, you f**king fools."

Robbins's comments stem from a letter published last week by investigative reporter Lee Fang, which showed Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., threatening criminal prosecution against Taibbi, who she falsely claimed lied under oath during recent testimony at a congressional hearing titled "Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files."

Taibbi is one of several journalists who were given access to Twitter's records, which showed a sweeping effort by the federal government to control and censor information on a massive scale (even when it was true).

Robbins praised that reporting, highlighting Taibbi as well as journalists Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger (who Robbins quoted tweeted).

"Recently, independent journalists … have been exposing a massive censorship operation by the US government to control content on social media and eliminate any dissenting voices," Robbins wrote. "Could be the most important story related to our personal freedoms in the US and it's being buried. Mainstream media have not only ignored the story but now attack the journalists…"